We three were waiting for the bus. Them a middle-aged nice looking couple, seemingly content – she was chatting away to him, her back to me and I couldn’t hear them because I was listening to a script with earphones. A few minutes passed and she turned to me. I could read her lips: Do …
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Local Honey
The homeopathic medicine theory is that if you want to cure allergies and other ailments that make your nose run, eat local honey. Truly local. Bought a jar of honey from ‘Let It Bee’, harvested from their Manhattan Rooftop Apiary. The advert in a local weekly said it has a subtle lemon note. To my …
Urban Decay
Sitting across from me on the subway, a young woman, dressed to look as if she stepped out of a Gidget movie of the 60’s. What caught my attention was her shopping bag with the words Urban Decay on the side. I could not figure out what sort of store that might be. Then she …
The Actress
A friend and I were on the subway, after attending a Broadway show. We boarded at 42nd and were engrossed in our conversation. Upon sitting and realizing I was sitting right next to someone, I looked down at their lap and saw a binder lying there with the words: Enemy of the People. I had …
Art
This visual is so explanatory. It looks like the freight section of a train station. It is the art in crates for the to-be-installed exhibition at the Guggenheim. One never sees the art arriving, only when it is hung. These are assembled on the main floor of the Guggenheim on Saturday. The door/delivery entrance behind …
What Does This Store Sell?
the Ultimate Tool
Yes, it is a Dutch cheese cutter; it slides over the flat edge of the cheese and ejects perfect slices. But in a NY apartment it is the ultimate tool. It’s end is slim enough to function as a screwdriver. It works perfectly as a spatula as it has some give in the flat area …
Brooklyn
It’s like an old tintype of an American City. Was there all evening on a weekday in the Bedford neighborhood. People were sitting on stoops, chatting, eating, and milling about the streets in the warm evening air; a neighborhood feeling of communal living.
Unplanned
Today, I was called to rehearsal two blocks from the site of 911. It was stilling to be in the vicinity of the event of 11 years ago. In some ways, there was not a trace. In other ways, it was everywhere
More Food Come-ons
Two more examples of physical adverts for food. I’m not certain either of these is truly doing it’s job.