tags: NYC
2000
July
- 2000 Jul 23
- In Transit
I can only survive in between. I tell you, it'll be a miracle if I wake up happy tomorrow morning. I really don't want to deal with this shit right now, but I made a promise, and I don't want to try to force myself to go to sleep.
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- Three Weeks Off
OK, I'm slacking. There's a lot of shit to do. I essentially have another three weeks off… I only really have class on Mondays and Tuesdays. I really have to force myself to write every day. If I had known… I would've really wanted to take a trip somewhere, but it's too late to get a cheap fare. I must write that e-mail to [redacted]. I don't know why I even bother. This is going to drive me insane.
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2001
July
- 2001 Jul 30
- The City that Doesn't Sleep and Other Ramblings
New York and a few random epiphanies.
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- New York City — Episode VI
My sixth trip to New York City
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August
- 2001 Aug 8
- Some Bizarre Amalgamation
I dreamt of an apartment, or a house, that was some bizarre amalgamation of my current apartment and of Joce's apartment. It was in the middle of nowhere, like, even less civilized than where I actually am right now. Or at least that was the first impression I got. It was actually similar to the neighborhood I dreamt about once, that was kind of like Glassell Park, except it was more ritzy, and Division St. was actually a major thoroughfare, but that's another dream which I only remember snatches from. (There was a church, like St. Dominic's, except darker, and the priests wore brown habits, looking a little like Jedi Knights.) Anyway, the golf course was still there, but there was also a little road where cars were parked. I think it might have adjoined an abandoned swimming pool…. As I write this, all these memories of other dreams are flooding into my mind. Wasn't the pool near the coast, where Santa Monica is supposed to be? Is this the same world I dreamt of, where I drove down the Pasadena Freeway to get to the beach, but instead of Santa Monica, it reminded me more of Moro Bay….?
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2002
June
- 2002 Jun 27
- Time
Days go by.
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2005
September
- 2005 Sep 27
- nyc — revisiting the big city (continued)
In some ways, Gotham has been on my consciousness for a slightly longer time than the Windy City has. The first time I came out here was in January 1993, and from what I remember, it was not yet fully Giulianified. Me and others from my high school were only there for a night, I think, on an East Coast college tour. I remember being cold, staying in a place infested with roaches, with holes in the walls where some guy on probably PCP decided to take out his aggression on the building. Ah, those were the days.
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2006
September
- 2006 Sep 1
- confusing the sacred with the profane
So maybe all Republicans aren’t religious fundamentalists, but I kind of wonder if there isn’t some sort of congruence between the two mind sets—namely, the kind of ignorance and stupidity that makes you so sure that what you know is absolutely right and anyone that disagrees with you is absolutely wrong.
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2008
May
- 2008 May 12
- wrong city/wrong season/wrong weather/no matter
This is from Brooklyn…
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July
- 2008 Jul 19
- comic book geography
I find it slightly weird that "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" use Chicago to represent Gotham (while "Superman Returns" uses NYC to represent Metropolis!) I've always associated Chicago with Metropolis, and New York City has been Gotham City long before the Batman was around.
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2015
May
- 2015 May 29
- 1 WTC
Before this last trip, the last time I was at the WTC site was in 2004. It was still just literally a hole in the ground and they hadn't started building the Freedom Tower yet. On subsequent trips, I eventually got used to the palpable absence of the Twin Towers, so on this last trip, it almost felt like 1 WTC had been Photoshopped into Lower Manhattan's skyline.
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