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Confessions from the new New Frontier

“What’re ya havin’ baby?”

Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 5:48 pm - It’s only 9:30 am, but today is already one of those days when I find it easy to love New York because of how often mundane becomes profound here. I got a free coffee from the bodega for being “a teacher who is a very important woman.” Nice. Then I got a seat on an [...]

New Year’s absolutions

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 3:49 am - One of my New Year’s Resolutions (the only one I thought I really meant) was to post something at least once a week. It’s February somehow, so that means that I’ve already not lived up to my own expectations  at least four times. But…instead of the usual throwing up of the hands and declarations of [...]

“Miss, are you gonna fold the slice?”

Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 5:45 am - I was standing in the pizza place near my school in the Bronx, having just accepted a paper plate full of bubbling cheese. The voice belonged to Astrid, one of my classroommate Vanessa’s advisees. Astrid is a recent NYC transplant from California, and I understood immediately the purpose of her question, which essentially asks, “Are [...]

A Mother’s Day tribute

Monday, May 9, 2011 - 2:43 am - I tend to think that these minor, dare I say manufactured, holidays–Valentine’s Day, Mother’s and Father’s Days–are pretty arbitrary. Did I send my mom flowers this weekend? Of course I did, and I’m glad that there is a reminder on the calendar that I should do something like that. Mother’s Day could be any weekend, [...]

3 Responses to “If This Doesn’t Make You Smile…”

1. Alan G Says:
   September 16, 2009 at 12:51 pm

   I guess I’m not in the worst of moods cause I got a pretty good chuckle out of the video. I do have a couple of questions for that TACO Bell order taker but I guess they’ll have to wait!

   Ran into you over at Ronni’s place.

2. Jack Kenderdine Says:
   September 16, 2009 at 2:20 pm

   Yeah, thanks for this, Pete. It gave reality to the much overused lol acronym. Very professionally done. I didn’t fully crack up until the order actually read it all back correctly and they were expected to pay for it all! They got a big serving of punked justice.

3. Darlene Says:
   September 16, 2009 at 6:13 pm

   Good one. It gives a whole new meaning to rap. (Wrap?)

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