photographs and random miscellaney from my brain
While not the first official snow of the season, this was the first significant one, leaving me to trudge through a foot of the stuff before people cleaned their sidewalks in order to go see the morning showing of Avatar.
I (or really my dad) preordered a nook for me with an expected ship date of December 11. Latest update is that they “hope” to get it to me by the 24th. In the meantime, I got my cover last week and it’s making a nice display case for the nook-sized piece of styrofoam that fits inside.
I think my favorite part, of course, is the fact that they’re obsessively insisting that they’ll get it to us by “christmas”. That’s cold comfort for those of us who, um, celebrate other holidays. other holidays that ended at sundown tonight.
one of the things I love about new york city is the quirky hodgepodge of architectural styles you see just walking around a single neighborhood.
Went to see Race last night. As with everything by David Mamet, it was both fabulous and fabulously uncomfortable.
the other day, I was watching “You’ve Got Mail” for the first time in years (and the first time since I moved to the UWS), and realized that Maya Scharper was the store used as meg ryan’s children’s bookstore in the film.
…is the plastic tree in the lobby of my apartment building.
I got this as a gift from a former co-worker at my birthday party last year, but I haven’t had an occasion to break it open. I do love the bottle though!
another oddity bought at the tate modern back in 2001
I’m not a particularly (or, at all) religious person, but for some reason I always light a menorah at chanukah. If I recall correctly, I bought this menorah in college, for less than $20, and I’ve been dutifully packing it up and moving it with me for the last 15 years.
