So Time Out New York recently came up with a list of the top ten Manhattan neighborhoods with “New York soul.” I’m not entirely sure what that means, but my neighborhood came out on top! 1: Alphabet City Meet our winner—quick, before it changes. Alphabet City is movie-set New York. The blocks east of Avenue [...]

With all of the stories about animal cruelty that turn up in the papers, I am such a sucker for stories like this, this, this and this. And with that, I leave you with a graphic from the Gothamist via the Daily News:

while I have cats on the brain (when don’t I, though?), I thought I would share this classic cat video: So cute. He should come and play with my cat, but not my computer. Sputnik already tore off two keys from my keyboard, I don’t need any more damage, thanks.

Friday night, Ian and I decided to venture into Brooklyn and poke around. We started by going to the new gay bar (Sugarland) that replaced one of those “free pizza with booze” places in Williamsburg. Unfortunately, there is no free pizza. Not a bad bar, but the DJ had absolutely no idea how to transition [...]

This is usually a noise he reserves for watching birds in the windowsill, but he busted it out while looking at shadows on my wall the other night.

Well, I’m trying to re-vamp the blog so that it will be easier to update. More later