The image most people have of New York is a tough town where no one cares about anyone. And to be honest, on most days, people would rather walk over you than help you. You get really used to basically ignoring everyone around you, especially when dealing with the Subway (be it on the train […]
Man, some things should just not be claimed. I bought a “windproof, lifetime guarantee” London Fog umbrella a couple of months ago. It’s really taking some beatings here, mostly while walking along the Hudson on the way to work or on the way home. The wind along that stretch could probably give the wind in […]
Last night I was fiddling around on ebay and started looking for tickets to events I wanted to go to in the NYC area that are kinda hard to get tickets to right now. First I was looking at “700 Sundays” which is Billy Crystal’s one man show. The tickets there were a bit expensive. […]
One of the movies I loved growing up was “Big” with Tom Hanks. The most memorable scene being Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia playing “Chopsticks” on a giant piano at FAO Schwartz in New York City. When my brother and his family were in town recently, we went to FAO Schwartz (since they reopened in November […]
I was walking to the train the other morning after our 16 inches of snow and stumbled across this outside a bar called the LightHorse a couple blocks away from the apartment: To give you some scale, Mr. Frosty’s heart is at about 6 ft. These are gigantic! And amazing. Definitely a great deal of […]
Ok, so Maggie and I have made it through the first blizzard and we seem to have made it out ok. I wanted to post some before and after pictures to give you an idea of how much snow we got. I don’t have stats for Jersey City, but I saw where Central Park got […]
Ok, here’s something we don’t get in Texas, from the National Weather Service: …BERGEN NJ-EASTERN PASSAIC NJ-ESSEX NJ-HUDSON NJ-UNION NJ- 600 AM EST SAT JAN 22 2005 CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME … BLIZZARD WARNING FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING… SNOW WILL MOVE IN THIS AFTERNOON… AND WILL BECOME VERY HEAVY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. […]
Well, it finally happened. I’m in NYC, and there is snow falling from the sky. We had some snow Sunday night, but I didn’t get to see it falling and I was in Jersey at the time. It’s pretty cool to actually see snow falling in Manhattan. It’s very small and blowing around today. Supposedly […]
Awhile back Maggie and I were looking at going to see Ocean’s Twelve the weekend it opened. I’m always a little fearful of doing so when a movie is probably going to draw a large crowd full of the types of moviegoers I hate (I will leave that for another time). But my biggest fear […]
Ok, so this past week we were back home to visit my family and my wife’s family for Christmas. When we left New Jersey, it was 50 degrees. When we landed at DFW, it was 20 degrees and once we got to Sherman, there was 3 inches of snow on the ground. That’s more than […]
Well, it’s finally happened. Some snow fell for the first time this winter in NYC. I’m sure I will be sick of it by the end of the winter season. But hey, it’s kinda cool to live in a place where they seemed prepared for it. The question is: Am I? 🙂
Ok, this may sound crazy to some of you out there, but after only being in our apartment for 5 months, we’re changing apartments in our building. The offere was too good to pass up. An additional 230 sq.ft. for only $60 more a month. We’ll be adding a Den, an extra bathroom and upgrading […]
So Maggie and I where headed to a silly art opening at a bar on the Lower East Side for a co-worker of mine’s wife and were recommended to stop at Katz’s Deli on the way. Little did we remember that’s the diner from the orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally! They even have […]
Yes, I know, not exactly current cinema. But tonight Maggie and I went to the ClearView Cinema in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan to see the Moulin Rouge! on the big screen as a part of their Thursday “classics” night. We had missed the movie when it originally played in theaters and thought it would […]
Maggie and I have booked our “Home for the Holidays” flights. We’ll be back in Dallas around 10 AM Thursday Decemeber 23rd and fly back to NYC around 5 PM Thursday December 30th. Can’t wait to see everyone back home. Going to have to go eat at Pluckers!!!
Well, today we woke up and it was 34 degrees. Starting to get cooler here. Hmm, if this is the temp in November…I can’t imagine the temp in January. Good thing we started buying warmer clothes. I see that Dallas had a low of 53 degrees. Well, at least we’re keeping the 20 degree average […]
Maggie and I made it to Central Park and enjoyed a little time there drinking hot chocolate. They’ve also converted Wollman Skating Rink into an ice skating rink already. I believe this is the same rink in the movie Serendipity. Going to need to skate there and at Rockafeller Center ( They had theirs setup […]
(There are going to be multiple entries with this headline…write about them as I see them) Everyone in this town smokes. The first thing you see most people do when they leave a building or a resturant (all smoke free BTW) is to pull out a pack of smokes (or bum one from a friend) […]
Maggie has a guest up this weekend (her name is Kelli) to help celebrate Maggie’s B-Day (Happy Birthday dear!) . Kelli (and Maggie and I) wanted to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, so we made our first ever trek there. Of course, all the way there, I keep quoting Joey from Friends…”The METS!” […]
I’ve come to the conclusion that the offical portable music player of New York City is the Apple iPod. I swear, 3 out of 4 people with headphones on are listening to the iPod. What amazing market penetration for Apple. Let’s hope they can keep it up. I know I greatly enjoy my iPod…makes ignoring […]