July 03, 2004
After leaving the gym I was walking into Subway at 8:30 when I noticed their hours posted on the door said they didn't close 'till midnight. What the hell am I doing here? I thought. I'm still full of like eight bottles of water and euphoric off endorphuns from working out...I have a good two hours until my stomach realizes it hasn't been fed anything but peanut butter and bread all day and starts in with the no-fucking-around hunger pangs! See you at like ten thirty, two six inch meatball subs for a buck ninety nine each!
Yea, you may have guessed it at this point: the dining halls are closed on weekends. And usually the routine goes something like: don't wake up early enough to make breakfast an issue, peanut butter sammich or an energy bar for lunch, out for dinner for a Chipoltle burrito or some pizza or Wendy's, apple of mine eye. This weekend, however, sees the coincidence of three days with the dining halls closed with a lot of crappy fiduciary planning on my part. I've been interviewing for jobs for the past couple weeks and just now, next week, I'm going to be starting one. But until then my bank account can see zero from where it's standing, if it squints.
Not to worry, though. Tommorrow I'm going to a barbeque Lou (who is a Hammerkatz. Hammerkat? Whatever.)'s family is throwing at their house in Queens. His dad owns a butcher shop and they are pretty much the Official Family of Corona, so the gluttony will be epic. America.
Eh, fuck it. The pangs happened a lot earlier than I was expecting. Back in a minute. Sammiches here I come.
Oh, they were gorgeousness and gorgeousity all in one, o my brothers. I don't usually like to throw around quotes but you're allowed an homage when you ain't eaten all day.
There's a bum in Union Square and the thesis of his signs, and I suppose his panhandling technique at large, is that "Brad Pitt Is A Cheap Bastard." He has a longer version of the signs that say "Brad Pitt is a cheap bastard/he wouldn't even help a bum like me." Today he even had a SERIES of signs, which he would flip quickly at passerbys, perhaps in an attempt to imitate the meter of a poem, or the Van Halen video "Right Now." I am assuming Brad Pitt walked by one day and didn't give him any change. This is like 20 feet from the Wendy's where Courtney Love suckled a transient on her exposed teet. Clearly, it's feast or famine when it comes to celebrity treatment of the homeless in my neighborhood.
(The things you learn Googling: Apparently, the man sucking on Courtney Love's boob is not homeless, in fact, quite adequately homed. Go read the article, it's hilarious. He's apparently planning a rap album and if it's filled with as many chestnuts of wisdom as the interview, I'll be first in line at Virgin: I guess that's the best thing about sucking a breast. Both people get something out of it. It's a good exchange. You speak the truth, Asare. And you like Wendy's. We are not so different, you and I.)
It could stay twighlight in Manhattan forever as far as I'm concerned. I always try to be outside around eight these days, I'm lucky in that it's usually when I have to walk to UCB to make call on Wednesdays. There's a reason they call it "the magic hour." Behold:
Sunset from my window. Foreground: That clocktower is the library where I get books the school library doesn't have (I am a dual-library kind of guy. Fuck me.) Mid-ground: Jersey, where delicious chemicals in the air give the sunset its uniquely awesome hue. (This example of environmental damage resulting in previously non-existent beauty is the backbone of my movement to drive polar bears to extintinction, just to kind of see what would happen.) Bon Jovi is somewhere over there. Also, Chelsea.
Cooper Union, which is a college where like 80 super-extra smart kids go. I think of it as sort of a Professor Xavier School for the Gifted, except with, from what I've heard, absolutely no hot girls. There are always incense salesmen and guys selling comic books across the street in front of the Starbucks. (This is Astor Place, where there's a Starbucks literally across from another Starbucks. You may make obvious stand-up-comedian assertions about their proximity...now.)
Brittany, an NYU dorm, for some reason only lit up to the fifth floor. This picture brings to mind the phrase "Obelisque of Night," which is good, 'cause I was needing a title for my recently completed homoerotic vampire novel.
Took this on one of those Wednesday night UCB strolls. Thought, "Shit, now THIS is why I should carry my camera with me more often." Then I remembered I put it in my backpack earlier. I should give myself more credit. Then I hang around with myself some more, and I'm like, naw, my current level of self-underestimation is juuuust right.
Same stroll. A block in Chelsea. Not overtly magical, but if I thought it was at the time, it has to be worth something, right?
Nothing snarky to say here.
Just throw on the Gershwin and have a happy Fourth of July.
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