glamorous
My Glamorous Life
- Night and day
Two homeless men have taken up residence in the temporary supply hut of the Chinese Embassy construction on the corner.
- Dear anonymous
Nicest fuck-you ever.
- Lord of the Rains
I saw the bus doors closing. I saw a strange lady taking my daughter away.
- The no-access road
A stranger and I just helped a disabled lady in a motorized scooter mount the inaccessible curb adjoining the treatment center for disabled people in wheelchairs and scooters. The medical center has been there for probably thirty years. And for probably thirty years, the inaccessible curb has barred the way for people seeking treatment.
- Girl. Dog. Night. Day.
A series of incidents.
- Quentin Tarantino has a lot to answer for
Dragging my cheap three-wheeled suitcase home from Penn Station after a Boston business trip late Tuesday night, I passed three businessmen standing in the middle of Park Avenue with their raincoats awry. White, pushing 40, a few beers past sober. The one who slightly resembled Larry of the Three Stooges was trying to keep the party going.
- Homeownership is a privilege, not a right
The throbbing Christmas music that has accompanied all action thus far seems inappropriately sedate as I cross the lobby perspiring like a bridegroom, bearing my newly filled-out forms.
- No heat at $5,000/month
Libertarians blame rent stabilization for the problems of tenants in cities like New York, but there are few rent stabilized apartments left in this town or in this building. Most people in this building pay $4000 to $5000 a month for a “luxury rental” the size of a working-class Hoosier’s garage.
Certainly the fee the landlord collects is luxurious. Nothing else about the place is. Particularly not luxurious is the lack of heat, now in its second day. Snow falls, arctic winds blow, but the $5000/month luxury building is as cold as a dead seal.
- A date with Sandra Bernhard
A bowel movement in the shape of a swan.
- iPhone “disappearing photos” bug
With this bug, the iPhone camera does everything a camera should do, except take pictures. It seems to obliterate photographic data the moment you snap the shutter. If you take five photos, you get five white boxes indicating the photos you would have had, if the iPhone hadn’t erased them the moment it snapped. Taking lots of photos seems to initiate the bug. There is no fix.