Les Miserables is returning to Broadway. True, it's a six month run. But didn't it just close?

How long has the topiary dinosaur been on the Broadway island between 78th and 79th??

i left the house when it was 2 degrees outside to attend a talk on medieval print cultures. the talk was good, but it was -2 when i was coming back. the walks from the car to the lecture-room and back to the car almost killed me.

eva air hello kitty flight

I haven't had the pleasure of traveling on this... Please click above

One of those moments when you are convinced that east asia really is on another planet. I love it.

My Beloved's mother is standing for very high office in elections upcoming in the land of her birth. My Beloved was duly invited to attend a rally in New York to pep up the locals who will be voting - whether by proxy or because they fly down there twice a week anyway, who knows?

She expected to be introduced as the Daughter, wave and smile, and exit stage left. Imagine her surprise when it dawned on her as she stood up that the audience (a hundred or more) were settling back to hear a damn good speech.



I missed it. Don't worry. Next time we'll sell tickets. I gather she made it up as she went along.

if the beloved's mother should win, can i be minister of culture? (i have experience.)

You want to be under me, one way or the other, do you?

Or:

Do you know what they did to the last Minister of Culture?

Waiting in line at the Verizon store yesterday, I overheard this exchange between two women behind the counter:

A: "What do you think of this color for my living room?"
B: "I don't like it."
C: "Why not?? It's such a pretty shade."
D: "I'm not Dominican."

Wilf, I also heard the other woman say she was voting for your Beloved's mother.

Wilfrid, what does "very high office" mean? Please provide more details and relevant links.

http://www.toho.co.jp/stage/yane2005/asx/yane_r1_low.asx

fat cat

This intersection is better

I think it's different now, but for years at the intersection of Beaver Street and Castro Street here in San Francisco, there were two signs on the sign post: "Beaver", and directly below that: "Stop When Flashing".

There's a road in Clark, NJ, that connects a secondary road out of town to the main drag. A lot of people take the secondary road to avoid traffic and then take the connector to the main drag to get on the parkway. The connector road always takes much longer than one thinks it should; in one's mind it holds a place as a quick connector link. We always called it “The Road That Goes on Forever” when giving directions, since no one knew what it was called. Early one morning, I was on my way “down the shore” with my friends; we were already good and stoned at 6:30 in the morning. I don't know what prompted me to look at the street sign that morning, but a gale of hilarity ensued when I reported the actual name of The Road That Goes on Forever: Terminal Ave.

Congress crosses Clinton in Brooklyn.

There's an intersection of Clinton and Attorney on the LES.

i crossed gin and tonic earlier tonight.

That's unusual?



The other name for the Aqueduct race course stop on the subway is: No. Conduit. Say it with a Jamaican accent, putting equal stress on each syllable.

My roommate in college: Happy Ho.

Yes. Legal name. Also highly accomplished (not in that way).

If she had married this actor, she'd be Happy Ho-Maker



(Obviously, I need to get out more often)

i've mentioned this before, but in grad school i knew someone named richard groper. he would head off any attempt to address him as dick groper by aggressively introducing himself as rick groper. dick shaver, a creative director at ddb needham in the late 80s/early 90s, on the other hand, revelled in his name.

There was a guy running as state rep on the main line in Pennsylvania a while back named Dick Sweat. You'd think with a name like that he would use an alternate nickname on the lawn signs. I think he actually made it though, so what do I know.

When I came out of the subway at Union Square this morning, I was perplexed by the sight of Greenmarket stands, since Tuesdays are normally non-market days. Then I saw all the camera equipment, and the techies and set designers setting out elaborate fruit and vegetable displays. It looks like they were trying to recreate the Greenmarket in autumn, since there were tons of apples, squashes, onions, potatoes, chard, etc.; however, they were all set up a little too nicely (as anyone who is a marketgoer can attest).

I pity anyone confused enough to try to buy something.