The concept of posting things of interest to me to blogger is becoming less and less attractive to me. The loss of long-form anything in my personal day to day life is becoming more and more pronounced. It makes me think of Newspeak from 1984. Is twitter/facebook/foursquare/ a subtle self imposed form of newspeak for our generation? The generation of ADHD and attention deficit issues are going to be the proponents of the 140 word post. Will any Proust's, Micheners remain?
I started posting in August of 2004. I almost can't believe blogspot/blogger has been around that long!
here is a time capsule list for perpetuity.
1) Bike riding around the streets of New York 2010 an 2011... its been fun, dangerous, exhilerating, and amazing! I promise I will wear a helmet more in 2011 Heather!
2) Car crash in front of our place at 688 10th avenue
3) Our trip to Yale for Heather's mock board exam
4) eating way too much egg foo young and sweet and sour chicken at New Kam Wei and Foo King
5) Eating at Il Melograno, Vynyl, Don Giovanni's, Cafe Olin, Terakawa Ramen, Island Burgers and Shakes, the Punjabi Tadka, Bubby's, Mamoun's Falafel, Joe's Pizza, Katz's Delicatessen, Eataly, Toro (spansih food), 92Y, Beach St Eatery, Sullivan Bakery, Francois Payard Bakery on Houston, Amy's bread, Hill Country Barbecue, Dinosaur Barbecue, Daisy Mays BBQ, Brother Jimmy's BBQ, Blue Ribbon Restaurant, Pho Bang, Nha Trang, Pho Pasteur, XO Cafe, Shake Shack on 8th and 44th, and of course much much more! Hey what can I say I came for the food!
6) trips to the MOMA, Statue of liberty, Natural History Museum, NY Public Library, City Hall.
7) All of the bit actors that came into our life since moving here, Al, Marci, Lia, Lance and the staff of Al’s Cycle Solutions (Chase, James, Michael & Ruben). The yemeni guys who work at the corner store's around our place in HK at Nagi's and 5 Brothers (Sonny). The neighborhood characters like Bobby and the Irish brothers who lived in hells kitchen their whole life. The laundromat employees and regulars at "Washland", The people and their dogs that we see all the time, "Bully" the beagle mix, Lance the big Black lab, Michael C. from upstairs and his little old pug JoJo. Jova The counter person at the Cameo on 50th st. last but not least THE SHINERS my job at Sunshine Suites put me on the fast track to meeting people in New York for sure. Joe, Cheni, Jake, Austin, Caitlin, Farid, Sarah Cho, Kristina, Katie Jean, Ahnia, Boumediene and all of the vendors, tenants and rotating cast of characters that make up sunshine suites.
8) Going to see broadway shows and plays with Heather and her family. Thanks for paying for me all those times Heather, I OWE YOU!. Best times so far have been watching "Rock of Ages" over and over! What a great show. Race by David Mamet, "The 39 Steps" at the NWS across from our first place in New York "The Cameo".
that's it for now but the list goes on and on! This was actually kind of fun and I am sure someday I will be happy I made this list.
That is one of my favorite parts about Blogger, I have never been great at keeping a paper diary or journal and this occasionally does the trick for that. I want to remember some of these times I am living when I am 65 (maybe). Who knows I might be having too much of a good time to go back through all of the old blogger posts. If the blogger servers survive until 2065 I will be shocked. Cuneiform lasts! Hard drives and all of the fads in storage will come and go. Might want to start transposing some of the important stuff onto clay tablets sooner than later.
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