http://www.gallerynews.com/americanbystander A pox on both your vacation houses. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:22:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Here I am, working again at Chelsea Piers, the only place where you can keep up with top 40 hits while eating sushi, wearing workout gear, monitoring your e-mail and generally producing the words and drawings that your career depends upon. It will be very hard for me when I ... http://www.gallerynews.com/americanbystander/index.php?p=69 I'm on an IND platform, West 50s, 6:40 am on July 4th. It being a long holiday weekend, most people have left the city, apart from assorted bohemians and the colored underclass. And everything is moving just a little...slow. I have to get to Penn Station by 7 and am ... http://www.gallerynews.com/americanbystander/index.php?p=68 Something seen in the cafe at the Chelsea Piers gym: A guy with scraggly blond hair has his MacBook open, is looking at the IMDB site, where we see a picture of a scraggly-haired personage named Martin Ewen. I can't resist the temptation to creep around and see if this ... http://www.gallerynews.com/americanbystander/index.php?p=67 ....here at PT, not because everyone else does but because the idiom we think in---I think in, ain't no we here---is just too rare and idiosyncratic to sustain a conversation. Like 18th-century Cornish. But politics is like baseball (write that down! remember I said it!). You can only talk ... http://www.gallerynews.com/americanbystander/index.php?p=66 Do you care? http://www.gallerynews.com/americanbystander/index.php?p=63 An executive headhunting firm, a boutiquey place with fresh flowers on the credenza and real milk with the coffee. And the coffee would be good, too... http://www.gallerynews.com/americanbystander/index.php?p=60 Well I do. Have most of my life. Of course I haven't read it much since childhood (my father was always fervently contemplating the purchase of something he never ended up purchasing, but he did keep sending his subscription checks to CR). But I see bits of it sporadically, ... http://www.gallerynews.com/americanbystander/index.php?p=56 That's the important thing. That's what all primitive people really want to know about you. They get to the point where they've figured out that you're either male or female (even though they they can't see either a penis gourd or pendulous dugs), and they know your approximate age (somewhere ... http://www.gallerynews.com/americanbystander/index.php?p=48 Monday night I was flying to JFK from Heathrow and exhausted my reading material before we passed Newfoundland. I found Caddyshack listed on the in-flight movie menu, but everytime I looked for it on the assigned channel I got a mid-80s Molly Ringwald turkey instead. And I’d already seen the ... http://www.gallerynews.com/americanbystander/index.php?p=43 Rumbling-bumbling in the back of my brain, some tags of poesy and foggy images leap up and nag at me every so often. I was about seven years old when I came across a short poem about a girl who was worried about having a dirty frock. The accompanying illustration, ... http://www.gallerynews.com/americanbystander/index.php?p=40