Sep 20, 2006 

Call It Booklyn


Read this article about the literary culture in my neighborhood. Fun stuff!
And if you want more, read this follow-up.

Related to this, we've decided to start a Brooklyn Authors Book Club at our church. This month we'll be reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Park Slope resident Jonathan Safran Foer. And thankfully we should have plenty of good fiction to keep us busy for a long while.

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Sep 11, 2006 

September 11, 2006


We did not mean to visit Ground Zero today. 9/11 is the last day I would intentionally schedule our first visit to the site. But Monday is my day off and we wandered through Dumbo and made our first walk across the Brooklyn Bridge; once on the other side, we realized that we were only a block away from the memorial ceremonies, so we headed that way. Here are some pictures from the day, without commentary. The only thing I want to mention is the one experience we had that really struck home with me. We left our house just before 9 am and on the television various people had begun to read the names of the nearly 3,000 victims of the World Trade Center attack. As we left they were in the A's. After a long, leisurely morning roaming all over town we arrived at Ground Zero to the sound of names being recited. It was after Noon and they were in the W's.

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Sep 4, 2006 

Just a Friendly Reminder


Beauty contests (read: polls) notwithstanding, only one of these two teams has actually proven itself to be #1 on the field. Now "#1" and "#2" will play in Austin on Saturday night. My prediction: Texas 31, OSU 21. And I hope our fans are just as "nice" to the Buckeye faithful as theirs were to my buddy and me when we spent the night in Columbus on our roadtrip out here to New York.

Hook 'Em!

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