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  • I love New York. While I was transferring trains on my commute this morning, a woman pointed out that we were reading the same article in the Times (the Sarah Palin debacle). So on the way to our next train, we had a …
  • - Neon - The thing I enjoyed most about this year's Olympics was watching the emotions of the winners. When USA basketball won the gold, I thought that it was so amazing to witness these grown men -- all of whom were …
  • - Not a Bad Day - 3. I skipped out of work a few hours early, so that The Wife and could wander around the city for a bit before our flight out to California. We walked through a light freezing rain, past Radio Cit…
  • - Prescient - (this was written over fifty years ago) "The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everybody's mind. The city, for th…
  • "Too often, life in New York is merely a squalid succession of days; whereas in fact it can be a great living adventure." - Fiorello La Guardia "I subscribe to William Faulkner's view that history is not just about w…
  • "I love you like a fat kid loves cake." - "21 Questions," 50 Cent - At the Bookstore - 1. Goodness, I've got a problem with books. I had some quiet time at work today, so I ran down to the Strand to buy a book …
  • - Blackberrying my little brother about trials, tribulations, fidelity, and fortitude - (slightly edited) ----- Original Message ----- From: Banrock Station Sent: 03/24/2006 04:31 PM To: Little Brother …
  • - Epiphany - Things with work have really been progressing hand over fist. Earlier this month I was in Denver with my partner, representing a former corporate officer in an audit committee investigation. Because it wa…
  • Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. -- Benjamin Franklin 4. The things th…
  • - Ugh - 1. Friends from home visiting = awesome 2. However, I think I have a mild hangover. I've never been a big drinker, so I've never had a hangover (so I don't know if this is actually a hangover or not.) But i…