The Tangiers Story
Jon and I were having dinner at Motorino, which is the kind of fabulous brick oven pizza place that thinks nothing to putting ramps on the menu, and the kind of restaurant where it’s practically...
View ArticleAn epic telescope fail
You had a bad day? You wrote an important business email to someone and spelled their name wrong. You called your boss “darling” in a meeting, out of the blue and quite by mistake. You made 7 copies of...
View ArticleBaby Showers
A lot of the time, I feel like a New Yorker. I will argue with you over where to get the best slice in the city. I often tut at the slowness of pedestrians. I tell cab drivers if I … Continue reading →
View ArticleDelayed gratification, and naming stars with physicists
It’s interesting to talk to Jon’s physicist colleagues, who often have a very different spin on things that happen in life. “Nobody wants to do local galaxies anymore,” they say in passing at parties....
View ArticleThe unexpected risks of trapeezing
Too hot to walk quickly through the muggy Manhattan weather, I strolled along behind a couple of girls and listened to them chatting. “The great thing is, we’re really getting fit as a couple,” said...
View ArticleWriting
Chris, of City Hall, and a fellow writer on SlapFight sent me this email, “It’s always good to work & re-work them fundamentals.” He’d been digging around at home and uncovered a writing list that...
View ArticleHipster Trap
As Jon and I walked through the urban wasteland of Gowanus Brooklyn, looking for a disused canning factory, we had to wonder; had we fallen into a Hipster trap? We’d been promised a rooftop screening...
View ArticleBeer Pong in an office setting – not just for fun
I work at the kind of office where people all have titles like Senior Business Head of Global Creativity Strategy, and suchlike, so I didn’t guess when I was re-writing Tom’s bio, that he was in fact,...
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