Paris during the pandemic
A friend sent me, via good old-fashioned snail mail, a clipping from the print edition of the NY Times recently. I was feeling kind of lonely and ground down that […]
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Five months and counting
We’ve just passed the five month mark since this whole COVID-19 thing kicked into high gear. My last day in the office was Thursday March 12. I took Friday March […]
MoMA and WNYC follow-up
Here’s a quick follow-up on two subjects I’ve posted about recently. First, WNYC announced today that they’re keeping New Sounds, after previously announcing that they were canceling it (and all […]
post-MoMA trip report
OK, so this isn’t really going to be much of a “report,” but I needed a title for the post, so here we are. Per my earlier post, I did […]
MoMA reopening
I’m currently several months behind in reading the stuff in my email “read/review” folder. So far behind, in fact, that I just hit two NYT articles about MoMA’s closing, from […]
NYCC 2019 wrap-up
I’m back home from NYCC, so I might as well write one more post about my trip. I didn’t go to the con on Sunday. Instead, I took a walk […]
A couple of end-of-summer visits to NYC
It’s Labor Day morning, and I’m kind of exhausted from a visit to NYC yesterday, so I think I’m going to write a rambling blog post about my two recent […]
MoMA closing and related museum stuff
MoMA shut down for renovations in June, and will be closed until late in October. I still have a MoMA membership, but hadn’t gotten in to see it much lately, […]
Notre-Dame follow-up
Just some links to more information about the Notre-Dame fire, from the NY Times: Pictures of Notre-Dame Before the Fire – some random old photos. What We Know and Don’t […]
Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris Catches Fire This is breaking my heart. I have fond memories of visiting Notre-Dame back in high school, when my French class took a trip to […]