Going home from work yesterday in the Times Square station, I was heading from the Grand Central Shuttle toward the stairs to the uptown IRT when my out of the corner of my eye I see two people lifting up their tails to walk down the stairs.  After a moment, something in my brain pings on that most subway riders don't have white, fluffy tails that ( Read more... )

With all of the discussions of the Terri Schiavo case, quite a few people have been discussing their views on health care if they are incapacitated. I would strongly urge everyone to put these views in writing in the legally-enforcable form in their state of residence -- a living will/health care proxy/advance health directive. If Mrs. Schiavo ( Read more... )

Like laughingirl and starkyld, my polling place had one election district with an extremely long line and several with short ones. Like starkyld (but unlike laughingirl, the rat), I was in the precinct with the long line. Immediately on getting in line, I thought to myself "I need coffee," so I stepped out to Starbucks to get something for myself and my neighbor who was several ( Read more... )

As some of you know, I've been crazy busy at work for a while, and it isn't going to stop soon ( Read more... )

Friends, New York SDMBer Dewey Cheatem Undhow will soon be leaving us for Dallas. We'll be having a drink with him Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 7 at the Bull's Head, 296 Third Ave. at 22nd. Details here

A very happy natal anniversary to jdoh.

And I said "What about Breakfast at Tiffany's?"
She said "I think I remember the film
And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it"
And I said "Well, that's the one thing we've got"

The New York Times is doing a summer book series, where they are printing books in installments every day for a week. I didn't start any of the previous books, ( Read more... )

I suspect that most everyone on my friends list has seen this, but just in case some of you have missed it, my friend Lisa, a/k/a laughingirl is raising money for her Breast Cancer Walk this October and has gathered a bunch of signatures of Broadway and other stars that she is auctioning off. She has some really neat ones, so take a look here:


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Well, I finally have some of my Around Long Island Race journal typed up, and I have posted it in MPSIMS on the SDMB.

Take a look if you're interested. More installments will follow.

Well, I'm back in New York after the Around Long Island Regatta.

We had a great race. We finished yesterday morning in just under 42 hours. We took the gun as the first boat in our division over the finish line.

In the end, on corrected time, we finished third in division, which was still a good result for us. Complete race results are here ( Read more... )