December 2007
16 posts
The waitress escorted us out. ‘Happy holidays, guys!’ We walk back to 15th. ‘I’m sorry,’ said Chels. ‘I’m a good tipper.’ Until tonight.
Carpal Tunnel from the Wii saved me from noticing when the sun rose, and Santa nowhere to be found. A Jewish roommate in his stead.
They prayed over the Bo Vien, the youngest air drumming with chop sticks. His mother gleamed, leaning back on both the chairs she sat on.
After the killJoy Division biopic, he chatted up the girl with a lomo. ‘Not digital,’ she said. ‘Oh, a real camera.’ With that dirty grin.
‘Sister can you help?’ asked the lady outside TJ Maxx. ‘Sorry ma’am I’m about to get arrested.’ The guard escorted her the rest of the way.
Down with the sickness.
The days are melting into one. I am unfazed by the guy rolling down the stairs of Astoria Blvd stop, missing his train. I just want my bed.
Down restaurant supply lane on Bowery, the old man perched on his leather stool scratched his chin, and shooed me away to a Home Depot.
At Deals and Dollars (D2) the clerk with the elf hat yelled back, ‘No more trees!’ Customers sighed over the intercom, leaving in one pack.
‘That register is gay,’ he repeated into the phone. ‘No. The register. It’s gay. Gay. That register. Yeah, it’s gay. That register is gay.’
Michael Chabon followed me from Penn station to 14th. At least he looked like him. Everytime I turned, he grinned like Clay. May not be him.
Auntie chopped up the duck. ‘I learned English in Hong Kong. We understand, but not good speakers. Hong Kong people listen. Don’t say much.’
Handing over Miranda July’s short story collection, the library guard asked if I spoke Spanish. ‘Well you’re going to have to to read this.’
1 week without a phone. “I admit I’m faring well without it,” I told her. “You don’t seem to miss it.” She must not read my tumblelog.
I passed by the office of the professor so world renowned she refers to herself, while she typed and repeated, “I am smart. I am smart.”
Boys laughed when I woke on the L train. Where was I, W’burg? Wallet still there. Only noticed I had no cell trying to update 1/4 2 sleep.