This just in. Due to unsafe working conditions all work on 10 Jay St roof has been stopped by the DOB. More as this situation develops.

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The Upper East Side can be bor-ing on a Monday night. But if you’re already there, why not do some karaoke?

Young Lucas at Iggy’s, circa 2003
I had my very first, life-changing karaoke experience at Iggy’s on 75th & 2nd one snowy night in 2003. Iggy’s is a cut above many other NYC karaoke establishments—features include [...]

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Unlike most people, I’ve been looking forward to jury duty for my whole life. Something about the formality, the sense of civic obligation, and the potentially bus-terminalish humiliation of it has called my name since I first said the pledge of allegiance.
I have only been here for four hours, and it has not let me [...]

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…the voting fever! But not the Obama fever, I’m afraid.

Nothing interesting happened today at my polling place, mostly because we still have the same voting machines that we’ve had since New York became a state. (Fuck HAVA!) So instead I’ll share with you my experience from voting in the 2004 primary. (Sharpton ‘04, totally not [...]

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10 Jay Street is haunted by ghosts with pacifiers. (Party photo by Kirk Peterkin at pbase.com)

The ninth floor circa 2008.

On Tuesday afternoon, vibrations and general construction noise disrupted our otherwise pleasant workday. Where were the noises coming from? What was vibrating? Were we safe? Would the ceiling come crashing down? The Great Flood of 2007 [...]

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I visited the Guggenheim yesterday for the final day of the Richard Prince retrospective. Afterwards I tried to find more quiet contemplation uptown, resulting in a visit to the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, which is undergoing a significant amount of construction following a fire in 2001.

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Virginia Heffernan’s The Medium column in the January 6 issue of the NY Times mag examines the ways the interfaces of word processing programs affect our mental space, focusing on Scrivener and WriteRoom, the “the ultimate spartan writing utopia.”

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Note: This post was written in early December, but lingered in drafts for a month. Read it anyway! I revisit Philadelphia! PS: Check out this crazy Mummer’s Day parade video featuring my old crew dancing off global warming!
Train travel has never been so fast, so glamorous. Last weekend I took Amtrak for the very first [...]

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Before I joined the 801a flock, someone made a dreamcatcher. It’s beautiful and inspiring, especially on a dark and cold day like this one.

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Last weekend was the opening of the new New Museum on the Bowery. I was happy to take advantage of Target’s thirty hours of free admission and get a first look, so I could report to our readership my scholarly opinions of the new space.

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