my country, ’tis of theeYou may have seen that this week marked the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. (Stuff on that is all over the inter-tubes, including here; that h/t goes…
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weekend diversion / more Manhattan photos, 'round midnight
circuitous routesWe had so much fun with last week’s night time photos, let’s go to midnight, and beyond …. The inter-tubes being the wonder that it is, this photo collection by a New York Times photographer came to my attention…
weekend diversion / baseball in the dark ages (1986!)
oh frabjous day!On this afternoon before the AL rep takes a 2-1 World Series lead, here is a fun post from a real baseball fan remembering A Big Baseball Day from 25 years ago. (My … how we have aged!)…
Saturday diversion / Soho as “Hell's Hundred Acres” (Tribeca too!)
(pre-A.I.R., no less)Did you know that the New York Public Library staff blogs? I didn’t, either. This is from an April 22, 2011 post, A Helluva Town: The Origins of New York’s Hellish Place Names: (h/t @NabeWise on Twittter; someone…
everybody is talking about cancer today
with the news about The Big Man from CupertinoAll I will say here about Steve Jobs is that he seems to have lived well (productively, certainly) with a death sentence of uncertain duration. There is grace in that, yet I…
out-of-season Sunday diversion / “football” in a baseball weekend
it is not really about footballOn a crisp fall day like today, the time is right for … post-season baseball. Two NL games today, and I believe that the Tigers are also playing somebody today. So today’s diversion comes (well)…
Sunday diversion / Americana + softball edition
not the train wreck that is the AL WC “race”If members of RS Nation can step back from the ledge, even they might enjoy a trip down memory lane, to a simpler time, when a guy on a pitcher’s mound…
weekend diversion / a little baseball with a bittersweet curve
fighting against the tide, again12 games left in baseball’s regular season (11 if you are part of some Nation), yet most of America seems to regard this as football season. Sigh. For today’s diversion, a lovely piece from this past…
so a man walks into a restaurant with his kidney, and their spouses … ? Happy 2nd Kidneversary!
two years ago todayWent out to dinner at a nice Greek restaurant in Astoria last night, with my wife (of course) and my left kidney and her husband. Huh? Long-time readers of Manhattan Loft Guy know that “my left kidney”…
Saturday diversion / Becket and Lead Belly edition
hurricane mash-upIn which Vladimir and Estragon finally meet Godot, who says “Goodnight Irene” instead of “hello boys!” and then exits, stage right, humming. The boys are plunged into further despair. The lyrics to the Lead Belly classic (often attributed to…
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