We were sick of drab Saigon, with its gray concrete and industrial museums, so we decided to head for Hanoi. The taxi to the airport was pretty fast, and we went right to the Vietnam Airlines representative to book our flight. In our ignorance, we had assumed that there would be regular, probably […]
Reading is one of my biggest passions. I was an English major in college, and thus read dozens of classics, both ancient and modern. Since graduating I’ve been trying to read even more, though with the hundreds of books that could conceivably considered classics, it’s unlikely that I can finish them all. […]
On a recent Saturday night I went to an amateur comedy night at a local bar. I won’t say what bar, but if you live in the Park Slope area you may be familiar with it – until recently it had a different, fishy name. I had intended to see “Grindhouse” that night, […]
When I first moved to Brooklyn about a year ago, there was a house around the corner from my apartment that looked like it was falling apart. My friends dubbed it a haunted house. Although this was appropriate, it never looked haunted to me; instead, it looked like the whole thing was a […]