Last Sunday, April 4, Spring came to New York City. Sixty-two degrees it was, and calm in the bright sun of a cloudless sky. The city had been waiting.
The winter seemed unusually brutal and long. As late as March we got mugged by the winds Chicago-style – sucker-punched from the northeast, a roundhouse kick to [...]
New York, at the moment (Mon, April 13, 2009)
Bird is the Word (December 1, 2005)
Bird is the Word
Walking to the train this morning, I spied a curious bird perched on one of the iron tree-guards. It was not a pigeon nor a sparrow. I have no words to name it as I’m not an ornithologist, even though The Girlfriend and I did attend an Audubon Society charity banquet last [...]
Dear Soon-to-be-former Press Secretary Scott McClellan,
Dear Soon-to-be-former Press Secretary Scott McClellan, (April 19, 2006)
When you rose to your post after Ari, looking for all intents and purposes like a headlight shot out of a deer, I thought you were stupid and contemptuous. Often I have pitied you. In time, however, much have I given you a grudging respect, admiring your [...]
The Subway Chronicles
Dysfunctions and Other Observations: The Queensbound Journals
by David Schneider
AimlessOctober 28, 2004
The days are relentless and stalk me even in the blue mild autumn when the still green leaves converse in Queens. The subway at 100 is, as all geriatrics, demented and ornery. Last night all trains through Queensboro Plaza [...]
