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Heading home

published on: 18.09.2008 in: All entries

At the airport now. The thing about visiting NY is you experience so much, it's hard too choose what event to describe. I admit, it may seem my attention was overtly drawn to superficialities such as the presence of starlets in my hotel. But truth be told NY saddens me. It's the kind of place […]

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What is it with our hotel?

published on: 17.09.2008 in: All entries

Yesterday, one of the Olsen twins shared our table. And clearly something is going on this evening because the black SUV's are lining up outside. This time, it has to be an older famous crowd. A few messy haired but grey men in suave suits and white sneakers (no shoelaces), sporting sunglasses and whisky glasses, […]

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PS

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'Rudity' was (kind of) on purpose. Consider it a new variation to rudeness.

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NY fixes

published on: 16.09.2008 in: All entries

This is my second breakfast today. I had my first breakfast in a Ukrainian place called Veselka which has been here ever since I can remember. I had forgotten how the place celebrates Eastern-European rudity. The way they throw stale toast and soggy scrambled eggs on your table is quite hilarious. So I escaped to […]

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But there’s also this…

published on: 15.09.2008 in: All entries

Then again there's this too: last night, the hotel we're staying in hosted a party for Jennifer Lopez. Please don't tell anyone that we walked the red carpet to our hotel and headed straight for our beds. Most likely we shared an elevator with Lindsay Lohan without even realizing it. Ignorance is bliss. But it […]

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Flip side

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NY is great, but sometimes it can be full of shit (excusez les mots). Like when a guy at the coffee counter creates a palm-like swirl in my latte with its milk. I compliment him. He furrows his brow and says, "every coffee I make is a piece of art. The fact that it's consumed […]

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Bloody Mary

published on: 14.09.2008 in: All entries

Not only do I love NY, I adore my friends here. We met up with a few of them for breakfast this morning (according to most of them, 9 am was an indecent time to have your eggs benedicte, but they were willing to sacrifice a few hours of sleep for our manic jet-lagged schedule). […]

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Back where we started

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We just landed in NY, the city we both lived in, loved, it's even the city where we first fell in love with each other. We wandered the streets of the East Village, past my old studio on 1st & 8th, past my man's old apartment on 4th & 2nd, and within minutes we talked […]

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Ideology

published on: 12.09.2008 in: All entries

Yet another primary school. This one is advertised as being Christian. The headmistress chuckled when we asked about religion. She said, "I'm an atheist, but the teachers do things like talk about Mozes. If it's an 'M' week, for example. Or Adam in an 'A' week. But then there's a whole list of other A's […]

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I believe I can fly

published on: 11.09.2008 in: All entries

I started flamenco classes again and because I had been away for a while, I wondered how to go about this. Reaching too high can be very frustrating. Yet, sitting comfortably at a level of skill beneath yours may lead to arrogance and the inevitable laziness. So here's what I did: I took the beginners […]

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