Today I visited Schaller and Weber, on 86th Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood on the Upper East Side. It’s an old-time German Delicatessen that was founded in 1937. This is the kind of Central & Eastern European food market that used to dominate Yorkville, before gentrification set in and every other lot became a bank or a Starbucks.… Continue Reading
It’s 5:48 a.m., and I’m listening to New Divide, by Linkin Park. Chester Bennington is belting out the lyrics in his frenetic high-pitched voice, and he’s really amping me up.
His lyrics are angst-ridden, full of pain and suffering, but he’s got a poetic bravery to him as well.… Continue Reading
It’s 11:16 p.m. on Monday night, and I’m watching the Winter Olympics. Men’s halfpipe qualifying round. Ayumu Hirano, all five foot three and 110 pounds of him, who is from Japan, just made an incredibly dope run down the snowboard halfpipe.… Continue Reading
I made Chicken Marsala for the first time ever tonight. It came out incredibly. I’ve been cooking for about a year now, after a long layoff. I mean I used to cook, I really did. In fact, when I was a kid, my brother and I would cook for the family once a week.… Continue Reading
It’s 3:18 am on Saturday night, and I should be asleep. I’m planning to visit my father tomorrow, and I want to be rested. But instead of sleeping I’m listening to “Soldier” by Eminem, blasting through my Google Home. The song is from 2002, and it features a young 29-year old Eminem.… Continue Reading
So the big news today is that the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is an index of 30 of the top companies in America, dropped more than 1100 points,, or more than 4% of its total wealth. This is the largest single day point drop in history, and it comes on the heels of a 666 point drop on Friday, which was 2.5% of total wealth.… Continue Reading
There was an interesting article in Thursday’s New York Times about how Trump’s authoritarian tendencies have given the green light to dictators around the world to clamp down on democratic freedoms in their own countries. And it really made me think.… Continue Reading
It’s a January Sunday around 4PM, and I’m feeling restless. I’ve spent most of the weekend working on my Generation X blog and my social media brand, and I’ve especially been tweeting a lot. Which is a grueling, soulless, thankless task.… Continue Reading
The other day I read an article in the New York Times about a Venezuelan police detective-turned revolutionary who hijacked a helicopter and staged a fake attack on the Venezuelan Supreme Court and Interior Ministry. He escaped capture for seven months and led a small band of armed men around the Venezuelan interior. … Continue Reading
A government shutdown is just hours away. The worldwide Women’s March is set for tomorrow. And President Trump’s one-year inaugural anniversary falls tomorrow. So I think it’s a good time to take stock of where we’re at. As in, how exactly did we get to this cultural moment?… Continue Reading