I made my first off-season trip to Coney Island today and had a great time. The weather was cold and cloudy and the amusement area was dormant, as expected. The only thrills to be had at Coney Island in February, I found, came from trying to avoid slipping and falling on my ass on the slick, [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Winter Coney
Posted in Coney Island on February 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Stuck (happily) in New York for the weekend
Posted in Coney Island, Travel on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the most awesome travel delay ever. I woke up this morning in Nanuet for my last day with my current client, only to discover that the snow that had been predicted all week had started to fall early and in greater quantities than first thought. My scheduled flight home tonight had been canceled [...]
Confidential to my Brooklyn peeps
Posted in Blathering, Cars, Coney Island, Places I've been on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
May I just say… the center lane on the Gowanus Expressway between about 65th St. and right before the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is BRUTAL! My rear end still hurts from all the bouncing. From this day forward, everytime I hear that ka-CHUNK noise a car makes when it hits a metal object in the road [...]
Coney
Posted in Coney Island on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a very long day of work with a client who can only be described as mercurial, I headed to my rental car this evening with a compulsion to go to Coney Island. It was more than a compulsion…. it was more like an instinct. I haven’t felt that single-minded in a long time. So [...]
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