Archive for June, 2003

We flew to Italy out of New York a few days ago. The approximately 135-mile drive from Wilmington, Delaware to NYC took two hours. The last ten miles of New York traffic lasted three.
Half-an-hour worth of NYC traffic was within olfactory range of a truckload of spilled chicken that had obviously been rotting in the […]

We just left North Carolina. I’ve never been in the South before. It’s prettier over here, and the barbeque is better.
As you might expect, I’m eating a lot of fried stuff. Also, I don’t know what anything is. The waitress looked confused when I asked her what hush puppies were. The girl at the coffee […]

Driving through Union Square, we see a sign:
Ice cream
Espresso
Sausage
Wash and dry

Exactitudes is a study of mimicry. (via Heather)

Me: Which way should we go?
Ali: Let me check the map.
(Older male jogger appears on the trail.)
Me: Excuse me. Which trail leads back to the trailhead?
Him: Heh. You ever seen Deliverance?
Me: Yes.
Him: “You’re a long ways from home son.”
Me: Huh.
Him: I’m thinking of that toothless guy.
(Ali and […]