Monthly Archives: November 2009

New York: day 103

Did a quick demographic sweep of The New York Times building’s Dean & Deluca today.

Total population: 32

% MacBook Air … 12.5
% male model … 6
% 0% Greek yogurt … 0
% New York Times readers … 15
% carrot muffin … 15
% other … 54

New York: day 99

Tenth anniversary of my appendectomy today

New York: day 96

Media of the Week: The Liberian newspaper Daily Talk, distributed via chalkboard.

New York: day 95

“Don’t blubber, it’s biology” — possibly the best thing I’ve read in, well, the naughts. Onward and upward!

New York: day 92

New project in the works: a grape reviewal blog (possible titles: Grape Expectations? Grape Balls of Fire? God is Grape?). I sampled a new varietal today called Autumn King, each grape of which is the size of a ping-pong ball — really! Three-bite minimum per grape! So cool! But I think the vastness of the grape diluted the flavor. I give it a 6.5. More tk.

New York: day 85

Modern journalism. Photo by Rob Anderson.
Modern journalism, or something like it — Washington storms the MacBook? Photo by Rob Anderson.