At Death’s Door
Another nominee from my Manhattan travels in the last 24 hours.
This was probably meant as a signal of relief after a maze-like series of complex exits. Seeing only this sign from the street, I wondered just what kind of transitional services they were indeed offering to the clients inside the building on 21st Street.
A Donut-Sized Hole
Sure, New York offers me subways, skyscrapers, and Robitussin commercials.
But then my apartment-watcher sends this photo from LA –a rare sighting of my Donut in his previously-natural habitat.
And suddenly, who cares if 48 hours ago I was working with Dick Cavett, or that I played Scrabble in Union Square Park today. Or that I have within this island a girlfriend, a family, good friends, and exciting people yet to meet.
I even have two cats where I’m staying. But not my fickle tuxedoed boy.
Donut, according to a “cat whisperer” friend, has given up on my returning, which may explain why he’s been unseen in the apartment for the last month. He now spends most of his time in the homes of neighbors I’ve never met but who apparently are good-hearted cat people, or at least not chintzy with the meat.
I can’t decide if Donut is a turncoat (giving up on me so easily when clearly I think of him so fondly; does he even bother to mention me ONCE in HIS blog?!?) or if his abandoning our home is his way of saying that it’s just too painful, too empty and hollow without me (The same old song, but with a different meaning since i’ve been gone, as it were).
I can’t know what goes on in that tiny little brain an heart of his. This is the same soul who, whilst purring, once urinated me while I was cozy in bed. If that’s not a mixed message, I don’t know what is.
But I do know that i’ve spent this train ride to Brooklyn writing about a cat. And i’m glad he’s safe. I was just asking about him yesterday and today he shows up and I discover he’s all right.
It’s as if he knew I was wondering, on the verge of worry.
It’s as if he wanted me to know that I can keep missing him.
Ugly Metty
The beautiful part of this god-awfully ugly stadium is that I took this photo from the subway platform on the way in, and i’m writing this entry on the subway on the way home.
It once again baffles and enrages me that Los Angeles makes no serious effort to get people to its stadia via public transport. Dodger Stadium parking costs are at an all-time high and the racket is that there’s really no other choice. You could maybe take a bus, but that’ll drop you at least a 1.5-mile uphill walk to the stadium entrance. A walk with no pathway, no guardrails, no pedestrian lighting for the way back.
My beloved Angels have a train station in their parking lot, but are presumably too busy giving away GM cars every Saturday night to look past the sponsorship to the needs of their environment nearby. No promotion of the train or special deals are worked out with the city or with fans from Los Angeles, which allegedly is the city the team represents (though if they’re the L.A. Angels, how come it takes me 2 hours to get there from my home in LA?).
And so the traffic, the carbon, the fuel, the time… All is wasted.
It’s genuinely disgusting how the teams needlessly soil the community in which they play such a pretty game.
Shea-dy Stadium
High atop the crowd, I bid you a chilly hello. They’re calling this Opening Night at Shea Stadium, which technically it is, as yesterday’s game was a 1pm start. Pretty cheesy.
Just like when they announced Billy Joel’s last concert here (the new stadium opens next door in 2009), and when it sold out, they added another one. The night AFTER.
Good thing i’m not obsessed with things like baseball and Billy Joel, and firsts and lasts.
Not after tomorrow.
Previous Stories
- Boxed-In!
- Nomination - Best Sign In New York
- At Death’s Door
- A Donut-Sized Hole
- Union Sqrabble
- Raw Food Diet
- What I’ll Miss Most Are The Napkins
- Monkey Business
- Ugly Metty
- It’s Just Not The Same
- Yankee Jail
- On Bottom Of The World
- Guest Follow-Up
- Bridesfeet Revisited
- Meet My Inner Child
- WC-No BS
- Tattoo Touch-up
- Ready to Teach You Math
- Let’s Party!
- Yes, But What’s the EXACT Address?
- I Went As Long As I Could
- L’eggo My Lego
- Please Do Not Fart On The Art
- Exitstentialism
- We Wait
- Wisdom Is A Menace To The State
- I Practiced
- These Four Won Third
- Something Smells Fishy
- There Will Be Blood
- Ships Ahoy!
- Pete & I Are OK
- Suddenly it’s Winter
- American Gladiator, Jr.
- Black Rock Building
- KittyPuppy
- The Lead Story
- New Zoo Review
- Siamese Cats
- Questions & Answers
- Cheers To You
- Work It
- Municipal Disobedience
- Cookie Zoo
- A Midge Late
- Yahoo! Answers On The Street - Episode #27
- E! by Me
- After-Christmas Sale
- Somettimes II
- Somettimes
- Man in Trees
- BedBuds
- Miracle on 19th Street
- Christmastime in Chelsea
- Doppleganger
- Marquee de Sade
- Eye, There’s The Rub
- Personal Touch
- Bingo!!
- The Tortoise In The Hair
- The Impossible Corner
- Welcoming Shot
- Parting Shot
- Revenge
- The Cohn Brothers!
- Live in Cohncert
- The Cohn Brothers?
- Behind The Podium
- Don’t Look Down
- Liberace Liberace
- Beat It
- Hey Hey He’s The Monkey
- Make Up Assignment
- Hold Me
- Chappy Chanukah!
- Superbad
- Ceci n’est pas une singe
- Run, Threw, Too, Day
- Crazy Game
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- Hypocrisy
- Hattie Stratton
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- Puck Me!
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- Alessia Hungerford
- Sunday Morning Surface
- YoonE!
- Catwalk
- This Takes The Cake
- I Walk The Line
- Norma Ray
- Strike One!
- Yoda Has Trust Issues
- Sit, Duffy, Sit
- Duffy Is A Blur
- Halloween Brings Everyone Together
- Miracle Near Ice
- Happy Halloween-ukkah!
- Halloween on the MTA Bus
- Time Out
- I Sea Dragons
- Puff the Magic Leafy Sea Dragon
- God’s Gift
- Moments Before My Demise
- Macaroni & Pleased
- Marlena Watches From The Wall
- Kitty Jail
- Store Cat
- O Captain
- This is the Part of “Wicked” I Didn’t Get
- Wicked Awesome
- Losing Ticket
- Winning Ticket
- Stories & Candy
- The Goose Now in the Hoosegow
- End Zone
- Sideways on the Sidelines
- Icing (No Penalty)
- Baby, It’s Cold Inside
- Gooooooooal!
- Trapped but Funny
- Found Cat
- Cat Found
- E for Me
- Ramping Up
- Remain Calm
- Pitch It!
- Times Stare
- Landscape-goat
- Happier Home
- Happy Home
- Brooklyn Glow
- Oh well…
- Rothko’s Chicken & Waffles
- Ice Hassles
- Miracle On Ice
- It’s an Ice Night
- Plate Expectations
- Doggy Style
- There’s an Angel In Manhattan
- So Who Is Adrianne Frost?
- Adrianne Thanks Her Fan(s)
- Kitty Blur
- Separated At Birth?
- The View from the Inside of My Arteries
- Free Beer
- Where It All Happened
- Under(ground) Dog
- Rothko Lives
- Death and Taxis
- New York Via Roma
- New York Via Roma
- City Kitty
- Off the Hook
- Agents of Change
- Secret Agent Women
- Go Be Bryant
- Wanna Buy A Bridge?
- Next Stop: Awesome!
- Why is Daddy crying?
- All Empty
- Keep Out
- Witness To Sorrow
- Shea Hey
- Queens-bound
- BMOC
- Mirror Belt
- Laugh On
- Blogging!
- Tongue!
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- Macallan 18
- First Waits
- Jiggity-Jig
- Help! I’m in a Flaming Gorge!
- Let’s Get BORED!
- Rocky Mountain Hi
- Happy Camper
- A Wynn-Lose Proposition
- A Gamble - Road Trip Blog
- On the street
- iWitness
- Bribes? Sure, why not.
- Shoot-Out
- Lessons Learned
- Hot Dog Update #5
- Hot Dog Update #4
- Hot Dog Update #3
- Hot Dog Update #2
- Hot Dog Update
- Scrabbled
- Too Late for Trip-Trips
- Hit my Pitch
- Working from Bed
- game show congress
- 9-4 in the 8th
- 7-4 in the 7th
- 5-4 in the 4th
- Turn On Your Radio
- Sirius-ly, I’m on the Radio Today
- What’s My Line? - 7/15: FRANK DECARO, Oscar Nunez, Teresa Ganzel,
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- Road-tested
- thanks to l2-lulu.com/Blogs/Ramblings
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- keep on trucking
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- the s.s. sponsor
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