Yesterday, I looked at several apartments in Manhattan. These two stood above the rest.

This first one was beautiful exposed brick, slanted ceiling with skylight, top floor, wood floors, older charm, dishwasher, and a small walk in closet. All is good except the living room would be really crushed for my furniture and there isn’t a lot of wall space for art.

This next one was middle floor, wood floors, older charm, large living room, average bedroom, typical tiny New York City closet, a storage cubby above the kitchen, lots of wall for art, and what looks to be a working fireplace. All is good except the bedroom floor is slightly slanted.

I put a hold on the 2nd apartment.

Last night, I ordered a soft taco from Castro’s. I normally get a burrito; they’re amazing. It came in a foil wrapper with a warm taco inside. The corn or flour wrap around it was very thin and multiple layers; like phyllo dough.

It smelled delicious, so I chomped down eating it. Yummy. As I was chewing, I noticed a few hard spots in the wrap. So I pulled them out thinking that maybe they were overcooked. I ate another bite, then another, then another; still finding the occasional hard spot.

Then it hit me. I was eating a translucent paper wrapper around the flour wrap.

It was just as tasty without the paper wrap.

I’m moving! Looking for Found another home that meets my desires. Well, at least my needs and hopefully my desires. So what are they?

• Location
  1. Manhattan: below 34th St
  2. Brooklyn: no more than 2 stops from Manhattan on any subway line A, C, L, etc.
  3. No more than 10 min walk from a subway station
  4. A 24 hour bodega within 2 blocks
  5. The location can be sketchy; I’m tough and unafraid.
• Size if just for me
  1. ~600 sq ft
  2. 1 bedroom at least 15×10 plus a closet
  3. Kitchen(ette), bathroom
  4. Few windows, more wall space; I’m ok with the dark
• Size if I”m master lease holder and will sublet to others
  1. 2500-5000 sq ft
  2. 3-5 bedrooms
  3. Kitchen, 1-2 bathrooms
  4. Still want lots of wall space
• Style? I prefer rawish spaces; e.g. I don’t want to build out a bathroom or kitchen
• Yearly lease

Leads on empty places, partial spaces, roommates, shared living, etc. are appreciated and can be sent to .

Also, read in the New York Post today to Brrace Yourself for Fuel $pike. The good part of the article says the Eastern US could be on the verge of its coldest, snowiest winter since at least 2003-4; that winter will start early this year with December bringing perhaps the most severe weather of the season.

YAHOO!!!! Blizzards! Snow! Brown slush! I wananananana want it!

Thriller is a remake of Michael Jackson’s original “Thriller” music video by prison inmates from the Philippines.

I know, its an oldie from waaaay back in 2007. I just watched it again and its stellar. They work it OUT!

When I first moved to New York City in 2007, I was possessed by the subways; those mysterious tunnels that transported me from one neighborhood to another and sometimes under water. Now that I’ve been here over a year, I better understand where the neighborhoods are and the lines run. The mystery fading away.

Until tonight.

You see, I’m starting to look for vast dark spaces in New York City to preview an installation I’m building for Burning Man 2009. I heard of the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage and that it closed permanently in 2001 due to security paranoia. An anchorage is a large, very stable stone structure on either side of a bridge. Creative Time used it for eighteen years as a forum for the exploration of artists working in many disciplines including new media, music, fashion, film, design and video. Visitors compared the cathedral-like vaults (nearly 50 feet high) to Piranesi’s “Carceri”, to ancient catacombs and to the austere intimacy of a monastery.

I’ll likely never be able to see them; doubtful put a public installation in them.

While I was reading about the Anchorage, I found the book New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City by Julia Solis. Its a collection of images with history, legends, and facts of the places we don’t see underneath New York City; its abandoned train stations, cathedral crypts, and subterranean hospital passageways, and other delectable places.

Now, my mystery and wonder of the subway is back. And, I am still looking for that amazing vast dark space for the preview. Anyone know of?

Today, Sarah Palin said to Fox News that she had been “annoyed” in her interviews with CBS News anchor Katie Couric and had been caught off guard when asked what newspapers and magazines she read and to name Supreme Court decisions she disagreed with — questions Palin appeared not to be able to answer.

Her responses, Palin said, were “an indication of being outside that Washington elite, outside of the media elite also.”

So her responses (blank stares and muttering) are due to her not being Washington elite or media elite. She can’t answer what magazines or newspapers she reads because she’s not Washington elite or media elite. She couldn’t name one…fucking…magazine or newspaper.

Seriously…she’s an idiot. At the least, not able to think under pressure. And she could be representing our country…or become our President. This is one dumb b#tch.

Sarah Palin is a dolt; a bigoted dolt. Sarah Palin has an Bachelors Degree in journalism with a minor in political science. Lets see…

She can’t answer simple questions like what magazines she reads or naming famous supreme court cases other than Roe v. Wade.

She thinks having Russia a few miles from her home state makes her an expert on foreign policy. Really. She said that. On TV.

She personally said that if someone in your family rapes you that she would council the woman to have the child and not an abortion. She also said that she is unapologetically pro-life. She’s hard core about it.

Here’s a video of people from Wasilla, Alaska, the city of which she was the mayor, denouncing her and warning us of her scary behaviors.

It terrifies me that Palin would become President of the U.S. if McCain wins the election. Why do i say that? Because, McCain is going to die before his term expires due to the extreme stress and pressures of being President on his nearly 80 year old body. He’s going to fall apart.

Oh…I believe McCain, while I disagree with many of his policies, is a good man. I believe he’s a patriot. I know he was a prisoner of war. However, being a prisoner doesn’t qualify you to be President of the U.S.

Sarah Palin is unfit for the Executive office. Sarah Palin is a nasty stupid seed that should stay out of Washington, D.C.