November 19, 2006

Underaged Drinking is Bad

Sorry, Coco, but I don't serve minors.

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November 13, 2006

Encouraging NY'ers Obsession w/Real Estate

Check out Rent-o-Meter to find out how your rent ranks amongst others in your neighborhood.

My apartment seems to be an great deal (if you don't factor in that none of the apartment buzzers work properly, walls are paper-thin, the hallways smell like cigarette smoke and stale Chinese food and the crazy downstairs neighbors with the noisy pitbulls). Awesome.

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November 12, 2006

How to Get Rid of Caffeine Withdrawal

In order to alleviate today's caffeine withdrawal-induced pounding in my head (I try to cut down my usual 3 cups per day habit to 0-1 on the weekends), I brewed some bo lei tea and hunkered down on my couch to watch some mindless entertainment. Yes, I know that tea contains more caffeine than coffee, so shut it.

The Sunday late afternoon crap on television was a little too mindless even for me, so I watched my Netflixed Vice Guide to Travel. I want to fit in one more trip before 2006 is over, but I don't think that I'll be heading to any of the places featured in the DVD (Chernobyl? Congo?). Whaddya know it -- the combo of sipping shotglass-sized cups of tea, gasping and laughing at the situations which the Vice correspondants get into worked!

Funniest segment in the Guide -- Gavin and David in China. Watching them tear-it-up in their Uncle Sam costumes with toilet paper beards in a Shanghai expat bar made me forget my pain. Reading this Amazon.com customer "review" added to to hilarity ("far ahead of its time. Uncompromising, unsentimental drama of this sort is not in vogue during an era that is better known for titles like Roll Bounce, ATL, and Snakes on a Plane").

Lesson learned: In order to cure caffeine withdrawal, drink more caffeine and watch a semi-mindlessly entertaining travel DVD. It works!

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November 05, 2006

Run This City Again

Running Mile 20 aka The Wall in South Bronx

Congratulations to all New York City Marathon runners! You are amazing.

This year we cheered on runners in Park Slope, Greenpoint and South Bronx, jumping on and off subways all morning and afternoon. I spent more time being a participant screaming and giving runners high-fives with my big foam "you're #1" hand, than being an observer taking photos. Feel oddly exhausted now -- and I didn't even run 26.2 miles!

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