Urban Expat

Advent Time Again

2006-12-01T06:43:54Z

And so it begins. To those of you who posted my plea for stories I thank you - and to those of you who still may (hint hint - I could use a few more memories!) thank you as well. Or send in your own! Most of you I know in person, and you have rega...

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Help! Advent is coming

2006-11-22T09:25:20Z

I need your help! Please consider submitting a story and/or posting the link to my plea wherever you blog or post things of this nature. I'd like to get enough stories I can make the main focus the memories with illustrations etc. and make the ...

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Tis Almost the Season

2006-11-18T07:25:32Z

It occured to me as I was driving past the garden center today that I have a house perfect for putting outdoor lights on. As someone who has been an apartment dweller through my entire adulthood, the prospect was both scary and exciting. So I orde...

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My next book

2006-11-07T09:12:42Z

Will be a list of 1237 reasons why this woman makes my head want to explode. Every comment she posts takes me to a new level of incredulity. First it's because 68 cents isn't a big deal to a big store like Walmart. Then they're against families b...

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Autobiography Titles

2006-11-06T08:36:22Z

I have considered this numberous times, in fact made a game of it at some point, A co-worker at Topps many moons ago named Mark got my best effort - I thought his auto bio should be called "Mark, My words." Mine however would more closely reflec...

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Success!

2006-11-04T10:46:12Z

Tonight, I was supposed to be dedicating myself fully to a client project that asks full time and weekends in order to meet a preposterous deadline, and yet I was spotted at the Beacon East Movie Theater, a scant 10 blocks from my home purchasing...

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Dream Address?

2006-11-04T09:35:39Z

An apartment in Paris and a loft in NYC would be ideal, and if picking just one I'd choose NYC, even more specifically, the top floor of the Piano building, on W. 46th St. -- once a piano factory, now lovely lofts. I like Chelsea and all, but Hel...

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The Post In Which I Get Served

2006-10-02T13:44:30Z

I fear becoming that person who starts too many sentences with the phrase "Well, when I lived In New York..." as it throws off this air of both accompishment and failure. No matter how earnest whatever comes after, the antecedent sets up the prem...

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Name That Horse + Swearing at Radio Shack

2006-10-01T07:50:38Z

You've been through the desert on a horse with no name. Except your horse does have a name. What is it? Thirsty. Because the desert is dry, get it? Oh my cleverness always ceases to amaze me. In other news, today I learned that if you swear ...

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More than one, actually.

2006-09-25T02:17:02Z

QotD: Reach Out Is there a friend who you owe a phone call or email? What's stopping you? We were supposed to go to the movies about a year and a half ago. She emailed me early that morning saying she didn't feel well, sorry. It was our third res...

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