10
Mar
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Today is a day of endings, of things I’ve always considered permanent being ripped from me, taken before their time (even if I haven’t thought about them much in the past couple of years, that doesn’t mean I’d forgotten them, and anyway, never you mind about that).
After waking to the news that the Coreys have been split asunder (and what does one do with just one? They’re like socks!) I have been texted by a friend that the gloriously faux-retro Comfort Diner located on 45th Street between 2nd and 3rd Aves in midtown M’hattan has shuttered. “This recession is ruining all my favorite things!” she says.
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Tags: comfort diner, coreys, faux-retro dining establishments, midtown eats, openings and closings, recession, staten island food
26
Nov
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photo credit: VancityAllie
Today’s post will be short because, let’s face it, you’re probably not reading, so ensconced are you in your multitudinous preparations for a magnificent feast. And I’ve got a train to catch: I’m off to the first New England Thanksgiving (minus M&D) in my family’s capricious and roving history, I do believe.
As always, the freelance life and the holiday life create a strange “vacation vector” in which work has still to be done, and yet, you don’t want to do it because all of the fully employed people have days off. Or, the converse: You have and haven’t had work in ages, so a holiday is just another day to you.
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Tags: attack turkey, eating turkeys, freelance lifestyle, fulltime with benefits, good for you, harrowing bike experiences, new england thanksgiving, self employed, thanksgiving holiday, the birds, turkey steals bike, us postal carrier, vacation vector, wild turkeys
