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I’m listening to Joe Satriani (Always with me, Always with you) for maybe the millionth time and thinking about music, about the ways in which it follows me throughout my life. I’ve always marked the passage of time in many ways – by season and temperature, by location, by the people I’m with, but always [...]

I find something deeply pleasing about this commercial. It probably has something to do with the fact that I deal with crowds like this every day, everywhere I go and there’s something daydreamy kind of wonderful about the idea of injecting some order in chaos. Plus, it makes people confused and goofy and engaged – [...]

I know that me saying I’m in love with this city is now beyond cliche and coming quite close to nauseating land but I simply cannot help it. Where else can you spend the morning chatting with Jamaican immigrants about travel in Italy, then get all your groceries delivered to your door before noon and [...]

EDIT: Scratch the feedburner idea. Stick with the old school RSS.
I’m a little confused as to how exactly one transfers from one RSS feed to another, so although I’m using feedburner now I’ll leave the old feed code up for a while in the hopes that if you’ve subscribed to liquidjill.com, you’ll go ahead and [...]

When I think of the inauguration I, like so many others today, feel full of a certain joy that I think really only occurs when you’ve been living with something kind of awful for a really long time. And then one day it’s lifted away from you. Then, kind of like those annoying Claritin commercials [...]

Tonight I had dinner with an old, old friend and it got me thinking about connections in my life. About my past and my future and how I maintain and nourish links with the people I cherish.
It’s funny but I seem to have reconnected with all these people from my childhood in the past few [...]

In my ongoing effort to eat well and cheaply I headed off to one of my favorite little soup and sandwich joints for lunch today. I ordered the same item I usually do, a spinach base with some green peppers, mushrooms, cucumbers, chick peas and olives. No dressing a couple of croutons and good to [...]

Snow!
It’s hard to complain about the cold when you get to wake up to snow blanketing the city at least once a week. It’s serene and beautiful and it stays that way for nearly an hour after it stops.
Then it turns into a dirty, slushy mess of a magnitude relevant to the snowfall itself, and [...]

It’s freezing in New York. Not like chilly or just a tad icy or something, but full fledged holy crap my face is hurting cold. On the bright side I’ve purchased what seems to be something of a commuters uniform here. It consists of a pair of warm cozy boots, a hat, a scarf and [...]

You could probably have guessed that there have been a lot of changes in the past month. At this point I’m not going into any detail but the long and short of it is that I decided to move into my own studio apartment in Prospect Heights and really focus on getting my life together.
Due [...]