Archives for the 'brooklyn' Category
What’s been occupying my time…
Monday, December 17th, 2007
Thomas Carlin McNamara, born Saturday morning, December 15th. Everyone doing very well. More later.
Scenes from an apartment in Brooklyn: more on my wife and television
Friday, November 30th, 2007
My wife and I are zoning out in front of the television (again), and a commercial for a furniture store comes on. It informs us that if we buy their living room set we can “experience luxury beyond your imagination.” My wife frowns for a moment, and then says, “Beyond my imagination? [...]
Please stay tuned…
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Update: Turns out that it was my ISP having mail issues, not anything I’d done. Go, me. You may go about your business.
Just popped open the personal email client and found that there’s suspiciously little (like, nothing) there since…um, the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving…somewhere after “hey, they were right, you can get [...]
Scenes from an apartment in Brooklyn: the Mets
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Item One. On things being over.
The Yogi Berra quote “it’s not over until it’s over” has a special place in my heart. Where some take it as a “damn the torpedoes” shot of never-give-up affirmation, as a Mets fan I know the stark, unvarnished truth: the Mets are up by six in [...]
Scenes from an apartment in Brooklyn: episode “interpret that, Freud!”
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
My two and a half year old daughter reported this morning that she “dreamed that mommy gave me an invisible rhinoceros doughnut.” She further reported that the doughnut in question had too much lemon and therefore wasn’t yummy.
Scenes from an apartment in Brooklyn: iPhone Followup
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
A week or so ago I had dinner with a friend, and (of course) one of the topics discussed was the then-upcoming iPhone launch. We discussed the gamble of buying a 1.0 Apple product, the possibilities for interesting additions in upcoming iPhones, and (most of all) the painful cost of the iPhone. We [...]
Jury Duty: May 30 – June 7, 2007
Friday, June 8th, 2007
About two weeks ago I was selected for jury duty in Kings County Supreme Court. On Wednesday of last week the trial started. This past Monday we started deliberations. At 11pm yesterday the judge found that we were deadlocked and unlikely to reach a unanimous verdict through continued deliberations, and released the [...]
Scenes from an Apartment in Brooklyn
Monday, March 19th, 2007
One: She is Her Parents’ Child
My two year old daughter is sitting in front of the bookcase in her room, methodically pulling the books off and piling them on and around herself. This goes on for a surprisingly long time before she looks over at me, flaps her arms, and says, “look, daddy, I’m [...]
Broken Angel Burns
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
This is really too bad: Broken Angel a…building transformed into uninhibited personal expression?…burned on Tuesday. It’s two blocks away from my home in Brooklyn, visible as I walk home every evening. Artist Arthur Wood has owned, lived in, and been adding to the building — the former Brooklyn Trolley headquarters — since [...]
