Don’t just take my word for it — the trustworthy Robert Sietsema of the Village Voice says so:
Read More“Little India has bloomed like a rosewater lassi, so that now the thoroughfare and surrounding streets form a South Asian business district more impressive than either Jackson Heights or Iselin, New Jersey.”
The Port Authority is going to raise the PATH fare and also the Holland Tunnel charge — but in a surprising turn of events, they’re giving a break to those who drive low-emission vehicles! This is great news.
Read MoreIt’s a good thing that I have so much work to do and have to stay indoors because my desktop weather widget is looking sort of Harry Potter/scary:
Why am I so excited that Jersey City has its own fake-graffiti-covered red plastic street dispenser of free issues of the Village Voice? And why is it that as soon as I typed the previous sentence I started wondering if my adjective order complies with the “Royal Order of Adjectives” (observation, size, shape, age, color, origin, material, qualifier)? And finally, who ever thought I would be able to tick both the “Jersey City” and the “linguistics” category boxes for the same post?
Read MoreIn a coffee shop, a coffee shop where the background music is mildly cheesy jazz, is it wrong to expect of others in the coffee shop that they do not play derivative 90s “punk” on their laptops without headphones? Is that really so wrong?
Read MoreI’m from Michigan so the light dusting we had over the weekend was not enough snow for me. When I see this:
on my desktop, then I’m happy. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
I loved my old couch, not least because we hauled it up four flights of stairs, and then down again, and then manoeuvred it both in and out of our garden level apartment. We had to get a different couch because we no longer have a guest bedroom, and it became clear that a sleeper sofa was in order. So I posted the couch on the “free” section of craigslist.org, and within 15 minutes, Lev emailed me. Success! I emailed my phone number back and got a call almost immediately. It turns out there’s a new tea shop in Jersey City, and the proprietor, Amy, wanted the couch. So Walt and I loaded it up on the top of our car, drove a few blocks, and now instead of going into a landfill, the couch will be used by someone else. Yay! And then we got our cheap foldout couch from the local furniture store, and now all we need are overnight guests. Craigslist rules like Britannia. Pavement sing (live) about couches: [http://tractorfeed.com/strictlyspeaking/sounds/BoxElderLive.mp3]
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