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June 8, 2008 | Filed under: 20 seconds and under, good eatin', misadventures

The day started off great! Birthday party, face-painting, pizza and good friends. Then it took an ugly turn.

The party was on Long Island and we were driving home upstate from there. We knew we had the Belmont Stakes, a Yankees game and just plain ‘Saturday’ to contend with traffic-wise, and because of that and the fact that we had my entire record collection and a whole mess of baby tomato plants in the bed of the truck on a 90F day, we knew we had to hit the road early.

But something went wrong. We zigged when we should have zagged and after a spell I looked out the window and saw water. We were deep South instead of Way North. We got off the highway but couldn’t get back on and ended up driving through the whole of Brooklyn– all of it, no really ALL OF IT from Canarsie through Kings Plaza, Midwood, Prospect Park, Park slope, Fort Green and Williamsburg– via Flatbush Ave. On a Saturday afternoon.

You may have to be a New Yorker to appreciate how awful that really is. If you’re not, here’s a visual:

The drivers were complete maniacs, we got cut off from the right at literally every block. The traffic getting past the GWB and Yankee Stadium was insane. We left the party at 2:30 and didn’t get out of the damn city ’till about 5:30.

We didn’t get home ’till 8:30.

We were broken.

So we broke out the champagne we’d been saving for a rainy day.

(it was also raining)

May 11, 2008 | Filed under: 20 seconds and under, country mouse

Back in the day, they used to show shorts before Rocky Horror down on 8th Street to get the crowd warmed up. Paradise Garage and Thank You Mask Man were two of my favorites, but there was a third sick & twisted little movie that always made me giggle.

I though of it when I shot this.

January 21, 2008 | Filed under: travel, 20 seconds and under

Been here a week in Istanbul and only just today realized the wifi signal was stronger in the garden than it is in our room.  Duh.

While visiting the incredibly gaudy, gold-leafed and crystal banistered Dolmabahce Palace we were made to wear shoe condoms so as not to mar the…umm…new carpets that were already protecting the 200 year old parquet flooring.  Whatev.

We all looked very goofy.

November 19, 2007 | Filed under: 20 seconds and under, NaVloPloMo 2007

I do this when I’m home alone, sometimes.

Okay, maybe more than just “sometimes”.

November 14, 2007 | Filed under: 20 seconds and under, NaVloPloMo 2007

New toy!