Conductor: While you are waiting for trains, please do not sit on the edge of the platform. Not only could you loose your legs, but you could delay your fellow passengers. –Long Beach-bound LIRR Conductor: The next stop is North White Plains, and everyone needs to get off there because the train will be aborted …
Category: The USA

Mission Accomplished
improv everywhere mp3 experiment four, originally uploaded by icopythat. Improv Everywhere “causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places.” On Saturday, Suzanne, Eric and I were agents for their MP3 Experiment IV. This mission required us to arrive in Battery Park City wearing a red, blue, yellow or green shirt, and armed with a …
A Little Rain
I just spent an hour trying to get to work in a 100-degree train station and on a train without A/C, because I depend on a train system that becomes INCAPACITATED every time it rains. How incapacitated, you ask? Check out the advisory below. That leaves maybe one or two train lines running for the …
Race Report: NYC Half Marathon
As we were standing in the race corrals early Sunday morning, I remarked to my friends, “You know, I have a good feeling about this race.” And why not? I’d accomplished all my training goals (which I’ve painstakingly laid out for you in this blog, whether you liked it or not) over the past ten …