Well, here I am in New Jersey...the garden state. no comment. Went to the statue of liberty last week and found out that since 9/11 you can't go up into the actual statue. How fitting that our liberties should be revoked at this poignant symbol of Liberte. Stupid french.
I was staying with my friend, Rene, at his loft in Jersey City and once again I was surprised at how only slightly gentrified it is. It's like, a 10 minute PATH train ride and you're in Manhattan. I guess the stigma of saying you live in "Jersey" keeps it free from new york snobbery. Rene has the whole top floor of his building and his rent is cheap, especially for "New York". Anyway, I stayed there a couple weeks and then they had a new roomate moving in so I hightailed it north to a little town called Leonia near the George Washington Bridge. A friend of mine from college has a big house here and I have installed myself in the basement and have found work with the estate of an artist who died not long ago. He worked in ceramics and did a lot of paintings, actually glaze on flat slabs of clay. So i have been cleaning the artworks and will start photographing, archiving, and then packing them for storage. It's pretty cool work and I can use the $.
I sublet my room in SF for the month of October so I have some time to kill here.
ah yes new york in the fall, chai tea, Jcrew sweaters, an endless river of Lexuses trying to get on the turnpike, It's lovely.
No way NYC is more diverse than Boise.. Places you should eat: Stromboli's pizza on University Place and 12th street, Corner Bistro on 7th ave (best burger in the world), Zula's Ethiopian near Columbia University.
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