Well, all I can say is, "It's about time." My favorite city, Philadelphia (despite my spending a lot of time in NYC lately), is finally getting well-deserved respect.National Geographic Traveler names Philly as the nation's "Next Great City" in its October issue. According to this AP story (via CNN), the magazine described Philly as "a … Continue reading Yo! Philly’s the "Next Great City!"
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Well, all I can say is, "It's about time." My favorite city, Philadelphia (despite my spending a lot of time in NYC lately), is finally getting well-deserved respect.National Geographic Traveler names Philly as the nation's "Next Great City" in its October issue. According to this AP story (via CNN), the magazine described Philly as "a … Continue reading Yo! Philly’s the “Next Great City!”
I keep seeing these headlines on major news sites (CNN, Yahoo! News, etc.) about -- GASP! -- Kate Moss being caught doing cocaine. Never in a million years would I have ever thought that a rail-thin supermodel -- one dating a rock star who is a notorious drug addict -- would be doing drugs...completely unheard … Continue reading The Kate Moss scandal: Who the #%*! cares?
I went up to a place called Blaggard's Pub on West 38th Street (between 5th and 6th avenues) in New York City on Thursday night to see a friend and former music collaborator, Christian Beach perform.As usual, the two of us in close proximity led to technical problems. This time, it took a near MacGyver-like … Continue reading Music in Midtown
Ben Folds played a special hour-long set at the SoHo Apple Store in New York City on Tuesday. I made arrangements to meet up with Katie, but the full parking lot at the Hamilton (NJ) train station threatened to thwart those plans. However, after missing the 12:06 p.m. train out of Hamilton, I decided to … Continue reading A great time in NYC
...like this one (of course, AP will probably notice it and fix it):NJ.com: NewsFlash: "Philly exibit salutes 'Mavericks of Color'"
OK...my boss just returned from a trip to her native Canada and brought me back my favorite candy bar, Coffee Crisp. Made by Nestle, Coffee Crisp is rather hard to find in the United States, but can be found everywhere in Canada. However, that is just the start...there are the tasty Smarties (not to be … Continue reading Oh Canada…and its better junk food!
Well, the "Last Call with Carson Daly" show I attended last week (see previous post) airs Friday night/Saturday morning at 1:35 a.m. ET, which of course is tonight/tomorrow morning.I don't remember seeing myself or my friend Katie on any of the monitors, but we were pretty close to Mike Doughty as he was performing and … Continue reading I might be on TV tonight, er, early tomorrow morning
The view from my friend's 17th floor apartment on William Street in Lower Manhattan.My friend Katie flew into New York City to start a new job as hall director for New School University's housing facility in Lower Manhattan. She called me late Thursday afternoon while she was en route from Seattle, where she was a … Continue reading Back in NYC
NASA's Deep Impact probe strikes comet Tempel 1 (NASA/JPL photo)...and gets sued for it.During the early hours of July 4, the "impactor" component of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Deep Impact space probe successfully crashed into comet Tempel 1 approximately 1.83 million miles away from Earth. It was a tremendous accomplishment for the recently oft-plagued … Continue reading NASA does something right…
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