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That's so desert!

That’s so desert!

My notebook is filling up with desert lessons. There are two deserts, according to Desert Magazine editor Randall Henderson: “A grim wasteland … seen by the stranger speeding along the highway.” “The other Desert—the real Desert—is not for the eyes of the superficial observer, or the fearful soul or the cynic. It is a land, the character of which is hidden except to those who come with…

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Nice "Louis" episode cosplay, seat.

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Probably the same photo that 20,000 other people took in Central Park this last week. A magically mild and stormless autumn is making for a stunning city this year.

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Someday we will line up at this fucker's bistro.

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Do your thing. Even if no one seems to notice or care. They do.

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Why I'm a Democrat

Labor unions are why I only spend less than 1/3 of my life pretending to be someone I'm not.

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Summer in the city

It’s like you live in a sweaty asshole, but a magnificent tenor is singing in it.

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Be Positive

On the other hand, uphill battles give you a great ass.

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Why do you live there?

Because on the train, you hear a young guy telling his friends how mainland China chose the candidates in Hong Kong’s election and that’s why there was unrest. At the transfer, a woman is killing “Midnight Train to Georgia” so you stay for “Someone Like You,” then your next train, a woman stomps her heeled boot on the ground and shakes her curls and laughs to no one “I been standing two hours and I’m a keep standing cause it keeps me young! Ha ha!”

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Overheard

A man in a suit passes me while saying, “the world is spinning too fast.” Meanwhile a man in head-to-toe safari wear is walking between the cars and taxis, shouting “people say some crazy shit!”

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MFW Legal reviews my marketing copy and says “Maybe something like ‘flirbitynurbits xern bern’ instead ... I don’t know, I leave that to the copywriter.”

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Fun at fairway (sound on)

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It's straight up 1983 in here. #starwarsshoes #jazzflute

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West 4th

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Better define "rude"

Anyone who thinks New Yorkers are rude: I'm watching some jagweed back-hump a pole on the N while everyone else struggles to hold on to inconvenient alternatives. When did New Yorkers become such pusses?

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Is your CMO an intern?

#pennstation Pret a Manger turning away people without an invitation. Assuming establishing exclusivity will fool New Yorkers into forgetting the food is bland as fuck and grossly overpriced.

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How to be both

It's hard to mind the subway car smelling like kitty litter when the loveliest bagpipes you've ever heard are coming from the platform.