MANHATTAN

October

2008-10-26T22:22:00.003-04:00

Yes! a monthly blog! If you want daily NYC happenings, go to newyorkology.comI'm in the Bahamas. We were supposed to go to Senior Frogs, but Kaet is tired, so she's watching a Wesley Snipes movie. I do not appreciate this. lASt night we skipped out on Atlantis at 12. The night before we stayed in and watch movies. I think I may ditch her. Anyway, in New York. I finally made it the monthly

Street Wars ! Shadow Puppets! Metal heads in Victorian costumes!

2008-08-21T20:03:00.003-04:00

There is a Street Wars battle THIS SATURDAY at Union square. The three-week tournament starts Sept. 8th.It's bring your own gun. (but isn't it always? I mean, it's not a duel!)I can't get into my gmail calendar for some reason, so I have no idea what's going on in my life. Do I have plans for Friday? Probably!! When is my first board meeting at my new job? Who knows!?! So, this adds a

What I would be doing If I weren't so lazy

2008-08-18T17:26:00.003-04:00

First of all, I would have told off that bitch on the street. Okay, lots of people talk and their phones on the street. Lots of people say things in public that it might be better if they had kept it to themselves. But this women said "Well, my life's my own fucking business and what I do is nobody's fucking business and don't you tell me a motherfucking thing...." et cetera. I really had to

Flying in New York

2008-06-21T00:56:00.003-04:00

<<---- This is totally not me. Today was my first day of trapeze lessons. I discovered the Trapeze School of New York about, oh, four days ago. being fearless, and also bored, I signed up for ten lessons at the bargain price of 50 bucks each. Obviously, since I had never done this before, or even thought about it, this sort of commitment was a big leap. But fuck me, I'm awesome. TSNY is

Blues in Harlem

2008-06-20T01:16:00.002-04:00

Because I am an uptown girl (no, Billy, thank YOU) and not a downtown girl, I get my jazz n' blues in Harlem. We had been frequenting places on the West side - Smoke and Cleopatras. these places are mostly full of white people, which is okay. Today we rolled over to check out the Lenox lounge in Harlem (Lenox @125th). It was not full of white people. There weren't many people at all,

Coney Island Mermaid Parade June 21!!

2008-06-17T01:12:00.004-04:00

Mermaid Parade!Saturday, June 21st - 2pm A completely original creation of Coney Island USA, the Mermaid Parade is the nation's largest art parade and one of New York City's greatest summer events.The Mermaid Parade celebrates the sand, the sea, the salt air and the beginning of summer, as well as the history and mythology of Coney Island,

The Unisphere

2008-06-17T01:04:00.005-04:00

Peace Through Understanding.I love the Unisphere, even if I have to go to Queens. I would see it when I flew into LGA, and I absolutely had to go climb the thing. (As it turned out, I can't climb, it's beyond my skills)It's at the 1965 World's Fair site (now Flushing Meadows park). You know the scene at the end of Men in Black where they're fighting the Edgar monster on the alien landing craft

Art in the Dark and other funky shit

2008-06-17T00:44:00.004-04:00

The Tank is a space for performing and visual arts emphasizing new work by emerging performers, designers, writers, directors and producers. They had to relocate because they're previous buildings was torn down to build apartments, or some such crap. Last time I was there, it was theatre slam - like poetry slam, only with new plawrights, 5 bucks, free if you sign up to perform. And there's

Drinks with shows

2008-06-16T23:05:00.005-04:00

Rififi E. 11th btwn 1st and 2nd. We can't tell you about Rififi, you can only experience Rififi. That is where we live. Comedy.... and other stuff. There used to be burlesque, and we miss it.KGB Bar E. 4th St. btwn 2nd &3rd. The KGB is a literary bar in the east village. Very chill, drinks are cheap. Most nights there's readings at 7ish. Downstairs is teh Krain Theatre, where they

Restaurants: La Caverna and Inoteca

2008-06-16T20:24:00.002-04:00

Had dinner at a dumb Italian restaurant called La Caverna on the Lower East Side with my friend T. and his fab new British girlfriend. It's on Rivington between Essex and Norfolk, just a block from the Delancey stop on the F and the J.We were suspicious immediately: we had to go down a long candle-lit hallway and take the stairs to the basement. It was done up like a cave; stalagmites, fake rock

The city won't love you back

2008-06-16T17:43:00.002-04:00

My love affair with New York is over.There are not many reasons to move to New York. There's aspiring artists of every variety, there's money, and there's those of us in love with the speed, the glamour, the opportunities, the culture -- in love with the enormous whirlwind high-chrome highdef dragonfly buzz of life in the City.I'll admit that I moved here because I was in love with a man, but I