(Untitled)- March 23, 2005 Fresh Fish The New York Times has a fantastic article on the impending move of the Fulton Fish Market. There are some people who can't wait for the market to move and others who think it's a tragedy. Me I'm new to town so I keep my mouth shut. But this article does a wonderful job straddling the line between reminiscing about old times and highlighting how the fishmongers themselves are prettyhttp://skunklove.blogspot.com/2005/03/fresh-fish-new-york-times-has.html (Untitled)- March 20, 2005 Sonny's In improvisational comedy they teach you a basic principle. It is called yes-and. Or, to put it more accurately, it is called yes, and It teaches this: when you are on stage with very little guidelines and you have a brilliant idea for how the scene should unfold - say you want to be a pirate, and your partner should be the parrot who only speaks French and a galleon full of angryhttp://skunklove.blogspot.com/2005/03/sonnys-in-improvisational-comedy-they.html (Untitled)- March 10, 2005 Sneak Preview! Or something like that, anyway. I'm feeling the need to post something today, so here' s a near-final version of next month's column for The New York Spirit. The column, titled "Alternative Side of the Street: A Series on New York Urbanism" will also appear in its final version on their website. By now, The Gates are gone, and in its own way that is part of their beauty. They camehttp://skunklove.blogspot.com/2005/03/sneak-preview-or-something-like-that.html (Untitled)- March 7, 2005 Relative Warmth I have not been outside yet, but my computer tells me that it is 59 degrees. Fifty-nine degrees. That is deliciously, absurdly warm. It conjurs images of deep summer. Is that the icecream man's truck I hear, or is my mind playing tricks It will be 59 that feels like 85. There will be people out on the streets wearing shorts, undoubtedly, and pretending that it is a balmy summerhttp://skunklove.blogspot.com/2005/03/relative-warmth-i-have-not-been.html (Untitled)- March 2, 2005 The New York Spirit My first column in the New York Spirit (an every-other-month magazine that focuses on spiritual living) is out. It may seem like a stretch to be writing a column on urban culture in a new agey magazine, but it actually meshes relatively well. The piece didn't make the online edition, so I thought I'd post it here. Enjoy. New York is not the first place that comes to mind as ahttp://skunklove.blogspot.com/2005/03/new-york-spirit-my-first-column-in-new.html |