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As a lovely counterpoint to the grim post below this one, yesterday I attended the annual Broadway On Broadway, a free concert in Times Square featuring the casts of current and upcoming Broadway shows, where host Martin Short and 50,000 theatre fans showed the world that New York City still gloriously, exhuberantly, spectacularly, survive and thrives. The Farmboyz, David and …

Manhattan, September 11th, 2001That day, I got to my office on 42nd Street at about 8:55am. About ten minutes later, I got a call from Terrence in Orlando. “Honey, you should look out your window because a plane just hit the World Trade Center!” I have a fabulous view of the Chrysler Building from my office, but to see the …

Another marathon bike ride with the Farmboyz today. At 11am, we took the bikes onto the D train from underneath the Upper West Side’s Dakota, emerging about 40 minutes later at the end of the line on Coney Island, the first visit for all three of us. We wandered around the boardwalk for awhile, marveling at an attraction called Shoot …

Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you’re about as likely to find someone else interested in it. – The Ultimate Blog Post (via Wired.com)Clearly, this guy has never been to Folsom Street Fair. (HT – SF Bootdog)

Riding the subway this morning, grooving to some great new music, I had the weirdest feeling of deja vu. I had the weirdest feeling of deja vu. Deja vu. Yeah, like that. And then it hit me. For the last three years, my favorite albums of the year have all been late summer/early fall releases. There’s a weirdly comfortable and …

A single terrorist nuke, more likely in the 5- to 10-kiloton range (Hiroshima was 12 kilotons), will kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people in any big city but spare the rest. In New York, that will leave about 7.5 million of us to sort through the carnage. – How To Survive A Nuclear Bomb (via Slate.com)1. Having potassium …

On the same day that I found 100 people surfing in NYC, I cut through Central Park on the way home from dropping off the Farmboyz, to find about 100 people hula-hooping by the Bethesda Fountain. This town is cuh-ray-zee!

Last year the Parks Department declared this stretch of Rockaway Beach, Queens, to be NYC’s official surfing-only beach. Previous to 2005, surfing was a ticketable offense. According to the city’s site, you should carry your surfboard onto the A train, then ride it to the 90th Street stop in Rockaway. The surfing beach is between 87th and 91st Street. I’ve …

“When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.” – Oscar Wilde.