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Lists: Top 10 Reasons I’m Happy August is Over
1. College Football starts this weekend 2. September = less humidity 3. Pennant Races 4. No more pictures of my teacher friends enjoying their summers off 5. Labor Day Weekend 6. New Fall fashions 7. Fall album releases 8. Six months of Techyness 9. No more allergies 10. Long Sleeves and Shorts
The Absence of Analog
Over the last year, I’ve stopped keeping an analog journal for the first time in my life. It has, mostly, to do with my lack of a work/life balance, the absence of a good desk in my small NYC apartment, and free time. Still – I miss it. Here are some old images from my [...]
George’s Check Ins Across America
The great thing about the Internet is that you can revisit your past. Like a time capsule, it contains nuggets of information long forgotten, only to be uncovered. I recently stumbled upon Weeplaces – a Foursquare visualization tool. It shows your entire timeline of places that you have checked in. Here’s a visualization of my [...]
My BlogHer: in Pictures
BlogHer is sometimes best told in pictures. And, since I don’t take any pictures of my own, I will have to rely on a little help from my friends… All that’s missing is a little video from me doing the Just Dance Game and we’ll have ourselves a nice recap. I’m sure that’s coming. I’m [...]
Random List of 5 Thoughts from this years BlogHer
I was talking to my friend Sugar Jones about how this year’s BlogHer was “different.” She smiled, started to bounce around to the music, and simply said – “We’re different. We’re older” and proceeded to dance her butt off. I smiled and realized that she was right. The first few days of BlogHer had me [...]
My Personal Dagobah
I went to the movies the other day – the theater on 2nd Ave and 31st street. This is a section of town that I hate. It reminds me of the past. Of ex-lovers. Of disappointment and fear. In the iconography of my life, this section of town is my version of the cave on [...]
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
I sat with Tom in the back corner of Destination as he proclaimed his new found respect for New York City. “Six dollars for two beers? I could get used to this place.” The Sunday evening special had this Boston boy succumbing to the allures of the East Village neighborhood that I call home. Time [...]
Positively 47th Street: Brian Simpson and The Roger Smith Hotel
New York has always been a hub for people to gather and collect. Neighborhoods formed based on ethnic and social realities. Places are dubbed hot and cool often based on their cross streets. So much of New York is about how and why people get together. In the 1960′s, Greenwich Village erupted with the Folk [...]
Keeping Warm on a chilly Sunday
Pictured: In sub-zero temperatures Japanese Macaque monkeys soak in the warmth of a mountain hotsprings at Jigokudani (Hell’s Valley) in Nagano Province of central Japan I seriously hate the cold. There’s something about being cold that puts me into hibernation. With the first Winter chill taking over the northeast, I’m finally coming to terms that [...]
Fairly a Fairy Tale
For the last few years, my best friend has been a girl. Not just a girl, a specific girl with whom I have been madly in love with. I even have gone as far as professing her to be my future wife. Over those years, we’ve talked on the phone, over the internet, and occasionally [...]
