“No longer will I play the field.” —Holly Golightly

If it were 1989, I’d file my most recent date away in my Rolodex under “Worst Ever.” For now, I’m just going to blog about it. I wasn’t going to because not all bad dates deserve to be written about on the internet, but this date was so particularly bad that I had to laugh [...]

Will and Fancy take Manhattan; Joey takes the stairs.

I was getting a bit worried last week that life in NYC wasn’t proving to be blog-worthy, but that was before this past weekend. My friend Will and his wife Francoise (henceforth to be known as Fancy) came down for the weekend, and I knew that any time spent with Will would be an adventure.
On [...]

Overheard on the N Train…

When I got on the N Train back to Queens, I was pretty tired and was hoping for an uneventful ride home. Instead, this is what I got:
Woman [yelling]: She called you!
Man [not yelling yet, but clearly frustrated]: She called to tell me she was engaged!
Woman: It doesn’t matter! She called you!
Man [yelling]: To tell [...]