Saturday evening on Broadway. The lights shine brightly on the busiest area of the city that is filled with people, cars, sounds, scents and, most of all, dreams. While I make my way to the Broadhurst Theater, the anticipation does funny things to my stomach. I am familiar with the feeling, I’ve known it for years since I was a child. The thought of attending a play, the new world that it would open to me, the idea of being transported into a whole new universe never failed to mesmerize me. But this time I don’t know what to expect. This time I’m going to attend a performance of Equus Read the rest of this entry »
In 2007 there had been 139 plane accidents with a total of 968 dead people. In the same year, over 150,000 people died and around 6 million people were injured in auto vehicle related accidents. People invented touchscreens and holograms, like the ones in Star Trek. Yet we use the same means of transportation as in the 80’s. It boggles the mind.
If most of the sublets in New York have a rule of “no smoking”, I wonder where do all the people that bum cigarettes live? Surely they do not pay full rent as they cannot afford buying cigarettes. Or do they save all the cigarettes money for the rent?
When I worked in Midtown on 7th Avenue, on a regular day at least 2 people would bum cigarettes from me. Some days maybe even 4 or 5. Most of them were fairly decent people and they looked like people that had a home. I don’t think they were tourists. You can see tourists right away. They are loud, in awe at every step, walking with a map in hand, wearing “I love NY” t-shirts or hurrying in the 7th Ave boutiques to buy said t-shirts for 20$ while they could find them two avenues down for half the price. So no, people who would bum cigarettes aren’t tourists. They are fully fledged New Yorkers that know that they could bum a cigarette, succeed in most of the cases and perhaps even have a fairly decent chat while they’re at it.
So I ask again, where do they live? Is there a special little place where smokers live in this city? There must be some secret society, “Cigarette Illuminati” thing because most of the ads on craigslist look like an anti-smoking campaign. You could see for example things like “Please be smoke and drama free!”. That’s why I smoke, damn it, so there will be no drama. Or “smokers and bad credit people needn’t apply”. Yeah, because those two things are so related to each other. Next thing you know, they’ll blame us for the downfall of the economy.
I think I’ll rent a 2br and then sublet. And the ad will say “Non-smokers – don’t even bother. I smoke, deal with it”. I’ll start a new trend. Keep your fingers crossed!
Say how do you keep ice on your gates?
How do you laugh at the sun with your eye closed? Read the rest of this entry »
Though Christmas is more than one month away, today I couldn’t resist entering a store of Christmas decorations. I always feel like Alice in Wonderland in that kind of stores. All of a sudden I could swear that Santa exists and Read the rest of this entry »