I Used to Love N.Y.C.  

Thursday, May 24 : 1:02 AM : 0 comments :
New York, I'm falling in love with you all over again. Okay, that's not precisely true. I mean, I was never in love with New York, I just liked it a lot (and then ditched her by the roadside pretty quickly). But it's been a few years since I've been back and I'm rediscovering her charms -- which exist for me mainly in the late evenings or the early mornings when the streets are clear and the nights are full.

New York, love the city, hate the (amount of) people. Then again, it's easy to be in love with a place when you're on vacation, the weather is beautiful, and you're having amazing experiences with your friends. Some quick highlights so far? I think I like Brooklyn, a lot. I probably should have tried to explore the borough when I was here. Rooftops, love the rooftops. I visited the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company, which was small, but to me, a period at the end of a two year sentence.
"But she was there for me, and I was there for her
Pull out a chair for her, turn on the air for her
And just cool out, cool out and listen to her"
So I've been here for four days and the real crazy fun hasn't even started yet. Today was food day (led by the incomparable Pam), tomorrow is shopping day, Friday is Squabble Tournament Day, Saturday through the weekend is See Everyone and Have the Greatest Time Day(s). Like seriously, am I having too much fun out here or what? I'm meeting amazing new people too. Like amazing. It's ridiculous. I heart New York -- in nice weather.
"About my people she was teachin me
By not preachin to me but speakin to me
In a method that was leisurely, so easily I approached
She dug my rap, thats how we got close"
On top of that, I'm coming off of an Ann Arbor trip that was excellent too. And here in New York, I got a chance to put a face to my editor from Rough Guides and he was cool as hell. So "work" is going well too. The only daddy downer of the trip so far? The Celtics got the worst possible pick ever. Like seriously, my (basketball) soul is bleeding and I can't even share it with anyone. I should have watched the lottery selection but we were out having a Wallace & Gromit Grand Day Out-type adventure. Sorry Celtics, another decade of futility. But I might be okay with that once Tuesday rolls around and this New York trip turns out to have been the best of the best.

I'm moblogging like crazy so if you want to follow along, hit the moblog (or the hiplog). Be back as regularly scheduled next week to detail it all. I'm working on blogging my life, like seriously. And subsequently I'm working on boring everyone I know to death by constant talking and blogging. It's just a nasty side-effect of the new me. I can't even get myself to shut up nowadays; I've become that guy you wish came with an on-off or mute button. Fun times. See you soon.
"Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel like my only friend
Is the city I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn
Long as I live here believe I'm on fire hey
Cuz it's the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
L-Y-N is the place where I stay
The B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
Best in the world and all USA
It's the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
L-Y-N is the place where I stay
The B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
Place where I rest is on my born day
Bust it, sometimes I sit back and just reflect
Watch the world go by and my thought connect
I think about the time past and the time to come
Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young"
-Mos Def, Brooklyn-





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