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– YESTERDAY – was the perfect weekday. I got up relatively early, exercised, took a shower, ate breakfast, and wrote a check for the electricity before leaving… this is more of a “morning routine” than I typically have time for.

#3. From Radiation Vibe.

#2. From Purple Scarf.

#1. From wolfbaronxylo. (A little levity in this one…)

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– LAST WEEK AND WEEKEND – I tried to post last Friday, but Blogger’s been doing this thing where it deletes the body of your post at the moment you publish. Not very useful.
On Wednesday, I sat through an interesting but exhausting presentation of a photography book.

Last Monday I posted that Jessica and I had attended Sarah Schulman’s Manic Flight Reaction at Playwrights Horizons, and I described the piece as “one of the three or four worst” plays I’d ever seen. Gemma was interested in more explanation, so here it is.

Read Whet‘s fanged-but-mouthy post on the Sox vs. Cubs phenom. Also read the somewhat less enlightened, but equally amusing comments at the end.

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NEW YORK REGION:

Everything went well, or at least within the sphere of what was reasonably expected.

Mike Bloomberg won reelection as mayor by a large margin, as everyone knew that he was. My duelling concerns are that he restores some margin of credibility to the Republican party… good to the extent that “credibility” manifests as sanity, bad to the extent that “credibility” is unearned.

– WRITERLY PATHOS – I’ve reached another impasse with Urbantasm. Some of you are tired of hearing that sort of sentence, and it’s strange to say it, because I really didn’t visualize myself working on it this autumn at all.

“”Which cocktail are you?””
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New York City, First Quest, Second Installment

FORT GREENE

Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are both neighborhoods immediately adjacent to the district where Jess and I live. Of the two, we have more extensive experience with Fort Greene, since we walk through the area whenever we take the subway.