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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It’s Restaurant Week here in the bountiful borough of Brooklyn, and so today we upped our lunch level. For a very reasonable flat fee, we took advantage of the finest restaurant floating on a barge underneath the Brooklyn Bridge (a neighborhood we lovingly refer to as DUBBO), the River Café.
Notes on living large:
• Although there […]

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Andy’s parents came by on Friday to help out around the office.

Our productivity spiked during their tenure.

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I was hard at work at the studio one day when Renda’s uniquely polyregional accent popped into my ears. “And if I’m at a party? And suddenly people start playing video games? I’ll leave.” She paused, as if in thought. “I’ll punch ‘em in the face!”
Unlike some people in the studio, however, I’m not opposed […]

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Each week, we ask our circa 1993 teen development program / binder how to solve our very adult problems.

What Type are you?
“Boys often classify and describe girls according to the way the girls act around them: Shy, A Flirt, A Pal, Natural.”Here is a breakdown of the four types of girls:
• a SHY girl “may […]

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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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I just received an email from my friend Matt Cooley with some news you can use:
Hello everyone, if you want to be able to vote in the Feb. 5th
primary here in New York your voter registration must be either
handed in Friday January 11th, or postmarked on that day. This is
also the last day if, like […]

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