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One in 8 Million: Reclaiming My Home
When I was a little girl poking around my father’s coin stash, the stray New York City Subway tokens always intrigued me. I remember the subway: the turnstiles like a bathtub faucet turned upright, a rotating propeller I could slip under easily; anyone could. And I remember the trains, arriving colorful and coated in bright [...]
Roadtrip: The 56th Inauguration of the President of the United States
January 19, 2009, 11:15 p.m. (LaGuardia, picking up the car rental)January 20, 2009, 2:00 a.m. (Maryland rest stop)January 20, 2009, 3:40 a.m. (Greenbelt, MD Metro station)January 20, 2009, 7:15 a.m. (The sun comes out finally!)January 20, 2009, 7:35 a.m. (Walking through a tunnel underneath the National Mall.) January 20, 2009, 8:00 a.m.January 20, 2009, 8:30 [...]
Goodbye W., Part III: I’m off to Inauguration
I requested off from work on January 20, 2009 the evening of November 4, 2008. Somewhere between then and a few hours ago I was resolved to celebrate inauguration activities here in New York City. I would wake up early to nab a seat for the screening at the Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg [...]
Goodbye W., Part II
For every celebration there is a perfect cupcake. The combination of flavors and enhancements present in my Hello Obama cupcakes represent a medley of symbolism. These golden vanilla cupcakes (for the Illinois’s golden boy) are lemon-almond flavored. Not only because I ran out of vanilla extract and had to compensate with lemon and almond extracts, but because [...]
Goodbye W., Part I
Revelling in the collective excitement of these historical times, the next few days are dedicated to like-minded celebrations and inaugurationated parties. Event: Yes We Can: Barack Obama’s History-Making Presidential Campaign, the photographs of Scout Tufankjian at powerHouse Books, DUMBO
Ostentatious Displays of Personal Aggrandisement
Off the well worn track of my daily life here in New York is a different city. A city that the tourists come to see. 46 million tourists just in 2007 (this and other interesting figures here). Among New York City’s countless attractions and world renowned cultural institutions is the Metropolitan Museum of Art: home [...]
NYC History: I myself am… strange and unusual.
After years of admiring the view of ancient headstones peeking up towards the Kosciusko Bridge on the BQE, I finally visited the grounds. Entertaining a Michiganian who’d make a fine addition to the The Endless family and in need of extra credit grave-rubbings for my Death class offered the perfect opportunity to spend a beautiful [...]
Karen Zamboni’s Day Off
I woke up this past Monday morning realizing, in the frenzy of a rather bizarre Sunday night, that I had forgotten to return my car rental. I’d be responsible for an additional day’s rate regardless of whether I returned it 10 minutes or 10 hours after this realization. A quick check of the weather sealed [...]
Geographic History
I was born on Long Island. My mother, a Brooklynite, and my father, from the Bronx, left a little apartment on Staten Island to find a suburban home with full amenities for my sister, two brothers and I. A yard, a swing set, better schools, a red and yellow tulip-lined driveway, etc. Putting aside their [...]
