Strange Happenings on Canal Street

For the past two weeks, they've filmed two different television shows on the block I work on. I guess with the Canadian dollar being even with the American dollar, Toronto isn't going to be standing in for New York anymore.



The Lulav and Esrog market on Canal and Essex. There's been a market here before Sukkot since the neighborhood was primarily Jewish.

My life in pictures

When I was little, and someone would say "a picture is worth a thousand words," I always thought it demonstrated a certain laziness on his part. Words were intellectual, descriptive, analytical. Pictures were merely informative, and didn't show demonstrate any intelligence on the part of the creator or the viewer. But there are some pictures for which there are no words.

But also I've learned to embrace my laziness.


I went to a Mets game. I felt like I was in enemy territory, but I had a good time even though they lost.


I saw a crazy guy climb up on the globe outside the Trump Tower. He was wearing rollerblades and smoking. Pretty awesome.


And I made a delicious tomato paella. Sooo good.

Modest Mouse at McCarren Park Pool

My recovery from Hell Week:

Perfume from Santa Maria Novella:


Gold musk, by the way. Really classic and light, but a little spicey too.

3:10 to Yuma

Mmm, Christian Bale. The movie was pretty good too.

On Saturday, I went to get fitted for a bra at Town Shop.


I was wearing a 36C when I walked in, and I walked out with a 32D. Wow.

Last night, I went to see Modest Mouse at the McCarren Park Pool.


The domes of the Russian Orthodox church through the entrance arch.



I have to be honest, the acoustics in there are not the best. It is pool after all; all that concrete kinda deadens the sound. Still Johnny Marr! (all the way on the left)

Screaming the words too "Paper Thin Walls" with a couple hundred (thousand?) people is pretty awesome.

The Most Awesome Thing I Have Ever Seen

Seriously:



Harry Potter Dance Team