September 2010
23 posts
oh new york weather
It’s the first day of fall and its a high of 76.
Last week it was high of 60 and super windy.
New York weather, you’re so confusing! But thanks for the few extra days of nice weather :)
I really gotta get on this writing business
but I’m enjoying reading so much more right now. I know, I know, don’t chicken out, just do it. I will … after one more story.
bruno mars- just the way you are
I wanna go to the new yorker festival.
anyone else wanna come with me?
I prob wont go cause the damn pricey tickets, argh.
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“The heroes of ancient classical tragedy encounter situations in which, if they firmly decide in favor of the one ethical pathos that alone suits their finished character, they must necessarily come into conflict with the equally [gleichberechtigt] justified ethical power that confronts them. Modern characters, on the other hand, stand in a wealth of more accidental circumstances, within...
subway shenanigans
I usually encounter weird people on the subway but for the past two days its seemed more than usual:
As I’m entering a turnstile, a man exiting through the otherside peeks out from the adjacent one, smiles at me, and say “peeek-a-boo” like a straight-up creep.
I sit next to this guy on the D who looks all quiet for a few minutes and t hen suddenly starts singing in spanish,...
“The perpetrators of this evil act didn’t simply attack America, they attacked...”
– President BARACK OBAMA, in remarks delivered at a ceremony commemorating the victims of the attack on the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
(via)
NY TIMES: Pastor cancels Qur'an burning; plans to... →
The pastor planning a burning of the Koran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks said Thursday he would not go forward with the event, adding he would meet with the imam planning to build an Islamic center near ground zero.
But a deal that the pastor, Terry Jones, said that he had reached to move the Islamic center far from ground zero seems to be more vision than reality. The imam...
tragedy
So for my fiction class we have to make descriptions of our neighborhood and set it up for a tragedy. You THINK that would be easy in Harlem, but it’s actually pretty difficult because unfortunately any kind of tragedy that occurs in Harlem may seem cliche. =\
