It’s been a while since I’ve been to a speed dating event, so I was kinda nervous about this one. It was actually a pretty big event. My sister emailed me a groupon for the World’s Largest Singles Event held at Slate on 21st St & Broadway in Manhattan. Apparently, they attempted to break a [...]
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Today, I’m traveling to Boston for work. My train leaves Penn Station at 8:30am and I pre-purchased the tickets. I’ve been to Penn Station before, but only once to travel by train, and that was on the New Jersey Transit system. Today I’m traveling by Amtrak. I woke up to a much darker world than [...]
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Ok, so uh, yeah. It’s actually quite delicious. compost cookie ® – pretzels, potato chips, coffee, oats, butterscotch, chocolate chips http://www.momofuku.com/
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I went to see a movie last weekend. I looked up the best way to get there, but unfortunately, the best bus to take, is actually being discontinued and is currently not running on the weekends. Bummer. So I walked the 20 minutes to the theater to go see The A-Team. Hey, it was silly [...]
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So. It’s happening. We are moving into Manhattan! Woo hoo! The glitch in all of this is that my lease is up May 31st and we move into our new place June 8th. D’oh! So I’m moving my stuff to Roxxan’s apartment for a week until the big move. Selling excess stuff When I moved [...]
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The Tribeca Film Festival was only started in 2002. I thought it had been around much longer. Tribeca is a neighborhood of Manhattan. The way the festival works is, movies have a “premiere” at one of several theaters involved in the festival (some are auditoriums at colleges). This is when most celebrities go to watch [...]
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I signed up for two free classes. They are meant as an introduction to what the 10 week course will be. I arrive to a well-organized setup with a table of people ready to check me in. I am signed up for Screenwriting and TV Writing. The building is 1450 Broadway in Times Square. The [...]
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We didn’t want to brave the crowds at Rockefeller Center, so we went to Washington Square Park.
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It has begun!
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This picture shows 4th Avenue with BQE (Brooklyn Queens Expressway) and the top of the Verrazano Bridge. View my NYC Marathon photos here. Sunday, November 2nd, the NYC Marathon took place. The runners ran up 4th Avenue in Brooklyn. I live on 3rd Avenue. I was checking facebook when I realized that the race had [...]
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