5 posts tagged “nyc”
I'm so delighted that we're actually having a spring this year! Last year it went from 50 degrees to 90 degrees seemingly overnight.
Ryan and I (and basically the entire office) have been heading to the closest park, Madison Square Park, during lunch every day. It's gorgeous. Here are some photos I took on Wednesday:
I don't have the energy for much of a post tonight, but I had to post this. My incredible luck lately has continued - we randomly walked by/into the filming of the Sex and the City movie!
I was a wreck, giddy and manic and I kept snapping pictures and walking around (they told us we had to keep moving because we were in the background). I kept putting my camera completely away and then changing my mind rapidly and having to dig around in my purse for it.
Goodnight!
One of my Vox neighbors and book club friends, Carmen, posted a fun post about things she's looking forward to.
I thought this was a nice idea for a post, because as she says, there's always something to look forward to.
Some Things I'm Looking Forward To:
-A Blendini at Rita's Ice Cream tonight
-My family visiting NYC next month
-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
-John Mayer with Ben Folds at the PNC Center
-Stephen Colbert's book
-The two trips home to Michigan I have planned for this summer
Every year the Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey circus tours first in Long Island, and then in Manhattan at Madison Square Garden. The train they are on is too big to go through the tunnels into Manhattan, so it's become a tradition that they unload the animals on the Queens side of the Mid-town tunnel, and walk them through into Manhattan and across the city into MSG. The result is a mini-parade at 12:30am with excited spectators lined up to cheer them despite the late hour on a tuesday night.
Ryan and I met friends there last night, and had an incredible time. What a sight to behold! I find it so cute and charming that they walk holding each other's tails with their trunks. There were about 8 elephants, and about 10+ horses, and about 4 miniature horses. It was dark and I couldn't get very good pictures, so the top two are from flickr. The first is the elephants entering the tunnel at last year's March (via Flickr). The second is also from 2006, a close up of one of the elephants (via Flickr). The bottom two I took: one of the truck going by before the march, taking the circus equipment to the stadium, and one of an elephant as it came by.
The Believer is also completely awesome. I love that they will write about any book, it doesn't have to be just published. I get tired of only being able to read about the very latest books in all the other book or entertainment magazines. There are way to many under appreciated books from the past that deserve to be talked about as well. I like hearing about new books too, but I like the combination.
McSweeney's also has a really cool book subscription program - for $100 you will be sent the next 10 books they publish. This is a huge savings, and totally fun. It wouldn't work for any huge publisher, too much stuff I wouldn't ever want. But McSweeney's publishes a very certain type of book, and so far I've loved every book of theirs I've read. My favorite humor books, the HOW series by Dr. Haggis-on-Whey (Animals of the Ocean; Giraffes, Giraffes!; and Your Disgusting Head).
Currently, I'm reading two books that McSweeney's published, What is the What by Dave Eggers and The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby.
What is the What is incredible. Dave Eggers is so original and talented. McSweeney's discribes the book book much better than I can, so here's the link.
The Polysyllabic Spree is fantastic. All I really have to do is quote the blurb on the front for you to see why: "A hilarious and true account of one man's struggle with the monthly tide of the books he's bought and the books he's been meaning to read." Was this written just for me? Or, as Nick Hornby himself says in the book - "In other words, it wasn't just up my street; it was actually knocking on my front door and peering through the letterbox to see if I was in."
