$1,550/Month

This guy won a contest for coolest, littlest apartment in New York. It's only 210 square feet. I'm actually feeling a little claustrophobic looking at it. I just totally spelled "claustrophobic" right. From the Daily News -

Next Saturday? Can't I'm afraid. At a matinee of American Psycho.

My family has a wonderful Thanksgiving tradition of going to New York (City) and hitting a couple of nice restaurants, a museum or two, maybe a comedy show on the Upper East Side, some shopping on 5th Ave., a little Wii with Mike Santulli, etc.

The highlight, ostensibly, is the Broadway show we pick out far in advance. The problem is that most of them suck. We started with Les Miserables and it hasn't gotten any better. Phantom and Rent were great, but pretty much everything else has been a waste of time and money. Last year, when Broadway went on strike and our planned Spamalot outing was canceled, we just did other, better stuff with our time. No sooner had I convinced myself that the show should NOT go on, when this news came into my Outlook inbox from my friend Andreas -

"American Psycho" to be Broadway Musical

Lucky, I guess.

The Way We Were

There is not a single person with whom I have spoken in the past six years who has expressed the opinion that New York's World Trade Center towers should be rebuilt in any way other than this -