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So…there’s this cat.
October 19, 2008 – 3:41 PM | 83 Comments
So…there’s this cat.

No, not that cat.   Or that other fat cat.
This cat, to the right here.
Some [epithet] left this cat in a carrier on 9th Street in Park Slope on Friday and didn’t come back for …

Angels In America
September 11, 2008 – 1:55 PM | 95 Comments
Angels In America

The evidence that Don is an angel is compelling, provided you’re inclined to believe it in the first place: his date of “birth” is September 11; he appeared when I needed him, and withdrew (to …

Hannah Upp
September 4, 2008 – 10:47 PM | 38 Comments

Many of the locals may have seen this alert elsewhere in their daily online rounds, but just in case, I’ll post it again here:
Hannah Emily Upp, 23, has been missing since Friday, August 29, from …

Both hands on the wheel, young man!
July 17, 2008 – 10:19 AM | No Comment
Both hands on the wheel, young man!

Happy birthday, Dad.

Notes from the Western Slope
June 24, 2008 – 10:53 PM | 13 Comments
Notes from the Western Slope

Congratulations on buying $8000 worth of fireworks, guy who lives one block from me, but do you think maybe you want to save a few of them for the actual Fourth Of July, instead of …

Gentlemen prefer Sars
May 19, 2008 – 8:58 PM | 75 Comments
Gentlemen prefer Sars

Sorry for the sporadic updates of late; between Bean’s wedding, the cold I came down with the very minute she was safely married, AIDS Walk fun times (awesome job, Angela and Team Supersnack!), bleaching my …

Congested
April 3, 2008 – 4:03 PM | 41 Comments
Congested

My initial reaction to Governor Corzine’s planting the flag on the congestion pricing issue: tough beans, duder. Price you pay for moving to Jersey. You get good schools, you get good trees, and you get …

Zip Code Red
December 21, 2007 – 11:45 AM | 136 Comments

After a 15-minute conversation with Skyrockets the other night in which each of us claimed that our local post office is the worst in Brooklyn — and I’ve gone to his, but mine is Van …

This American Hen
November 30, 2007 – 10:04 AM | 28 Comments
This American Hen

When it hens, it pours: reader Ken R. hepped me to the This American Life episode from a week ago called “Poultry Slam,” and I haven’t listened to it yet, but I can’t wait to …

Beliefs
September 12, 2007 – 12:36 AM | 23 Comments

It’s funny, the things we believe — the reasons we have for believing those things. I read far too many ghost stories growing up, and I did said growing up in an old house which …