Cars, Bikes, and People
I’m waiting, with a dozen other people, to cross Metropolitan Avenue. Mothers escorting kids home from school, hipsters languidly examining
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Williamsburg
Old Friends
My nephew just turned 15, and I’m pretty sure that even if I weren’t related to him, I’d be telling
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These People Seem Rather Cross About Something
I can’t help thinking I’m falling for some meta-textual “I know you think you know what I think you know
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In A Seaside Town
To many, especially those steeped in the miserabilist aesthetic of Morrissey, the notion of a “seaside town” is unmistakably English,
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Super, Just Super
No, this isn’t really about the Super Bowl, though congratulations are in order to the New Orleans Saints for a
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I don’t know what’s come over me lately, but after a lifetime of being at best grudgingly content about where
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