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The law is a pain

Australian readers, count your blessings where you find them: you do not have to endure TV advertisements for prescription medications, or for individual law firms. Lately I’ve been struck by one particularly urgent commercial, featuring two alleged victims....
Great moments in summer subway commuting

Great moments in summer subway commuting

I have written elsewhere on this blog about my fondness for the NYC subway. I stand corrected: while commuting daily to midtown during the morning rush hour for my class at New York University throughout July, I was forced to admit my fondness for travelling around...
Have bridge, will photograph

Have bridge, will photograph

On a humid and slightly overcast Thursday night a group of four Australians enjoyed playing tourists during a twilight cocktail cruise around the tip of Manhattan. The last time I was on the water here was on my honeymoon, in 2003. John and I took the Staten Island...

Digestion and indigestion

Tonight post-NYU I met up with Lara and another friend of hers who lives in Italy. The occasion was dinner at Artisanal, a feted French brasserie on 32nd Street at 2 Park Avenue best known for its cheese selection. During Restaurant Week (an annual feature of the NY...

Vive le Roy

Last night I headed to Dizzy’s at Columbus Circle to hear the fabulous octogenarian drummer Roy Haynes and his “Fountain of Youth” quartet. My pal John Moore came with me. John was a Roy “virgin”, but I had seen him perform a few times...

Count your blessings

“God bless you!” “Thank you!” “Bless you!” “Thank you!” Every time someone sneezes in my NYU class, it triggers this automatic call-and-response. The blessings are multiple and instantaneous, coming from all over the...
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