Posted by liquidjill on July 31st 2009
Another shooting on my block and the neighborhood is starting to react, finally. I love Franklin Ave has a great but depressing post about it. I’m particularly saddened by the news as the delivery guy that is now in critical condition from a stray bullet to his stomach actually brought me my dinner the night [...]
Posted by liquidjill on July 27th 2009
Every time I go for a bike ride the city seems to shrink a little. This weekend was a particularly acute representation of this point. Saturday I hopped on the track bike and rode to Washington Heights with Wendy. I think it was around a 40 or 45 mile ride but two elements made it [...]
Posted by liquidjill on July 06th 2009
So I had a really long, kind of awful day at work filled with ornery people and way too much crap to do. All I could think was that at the end of the day I was cashing in on my free pedicure I had scored the week before. My feet were a mess from [...]
Posted by liquidjill on July 03rd 2009
It’s 4th of July weekend and the summer is accelerating around me. Feelings of finite freedom left over from childhood and the constant desire to savor them never seem to leave me. New York is such a different city this time of year. Coats and boots have been shed for sundresses and sandals and the [...]
Posted by liquidjill on July 01st 2009
Today I decided to remove the automatic twitter feed. I think it made me lazier about posting than I already was, which, to put it simply, made me not really post at all. I mean my private journal is great, and I find some cathartic pleasure writing in it, but the whole point of this [...]
