Unique New York, New York Unique

Brooklyn's where I'm living at the moment - in my little squabble of a home. I'm traveling to work using three different train lines - taking 40 minutes from door to door - not a painful amount of time - gives me a nice portion of time that I dedicate to staring at New Yorkers, reading my book or thinking about my blog. Brooklyn is massive - Brooklyn is New York's most populous borough, with nearly 2.5 million residents. If all five boroughs were independent cities, Brooklyn would rank as the third most populous city in the United States, behind Los Angeles and Chicago. So it's tres big. Having said this - I'm in a smaller community of Brooklyn - Williamsburg. And It's a great area - very cool and young. But I'm moving out at the end of May - have mainly been pushed over the edge by not having any hot water for the past 3 or 4 days. But I'll hunt for an apartment in Greenpoint - Long Island City, Williamsburg - or Manhattan (live the dream)

I've had a really great week this week. For a whole bunch of reasons. I've been in a lot of contact with everyone back home - thanks to the miracles that is Skype (get on it and add me - nicklemessurier) I've been looked after by my lovely Auntie and Uncle who are over for a few weeks. I've run into old friends, I've got more friends visiting very soon, I've made new friends and this morning - I had a hot shower – with real hot water.


I also tried the New York black and white cookie - of Seinfeld fame. I want to introduce a rainbow cookie for the new millennium. Or has the rainbow paddle pop been for Australia what the black and white cookie is for New York? Paddle pop – I’ve been so blind.


The weird thing is - it's not a cookie at all - it's like a flat cake - with soft dough. Diversity sure is surprising...and weird cause it’s different. I didn’t like it.

Have tried to start reading up on current affairs lately - seeing how much money Obamah is raising after Hillaries big sweep - or how the trail of those policemen who shot the unarmed black guy 50 times on his bucks night, the Virginia tech shooting...the whole thing.

Actually - the day after the Virginia Tech drama happened - I was down on clean clothes and had to wear my 'Die Yuppu Scum' t-shirt. mmm not quite apt.

Heres some random pics of NYC papers...


I like it cause it says New York


But this one has a cool thin layout and we get them free at work. So NYT’s is cut.


Went out for dinner Friday with My auntie Maggie (pictured) and uncle Lez, with my cousin Chris(pictured) and Claire. Maggie kept telling how much she loved reading my bog. What a great bog it was and how she could wait for my next bog. What can I say? I’m a bogger. I do big hot steamy bogs - I try to do one each week - but sometimes I just don have time to bog. Bogging can be quite time consuming...(I could go on)


Strolled around SOHO with Claire and Maggie - was such a nice wander - with the sun out and a fresh batch of snow falling and catching the light. But not enough snow to accumulate and get gross. A nice and lazy tourist jab, which was great for me – I’d been out the whole night prior and was not the most energetic I've ever been.


They have these amazing billboards in Manhattan that are painted onto the brick. How cool.. These things are massive – they even do photos – like the big madge painting picture – Hate to spell it wrong…


More cool painted on stuff…


Recognize this store? Carry Bradsure realized she'd spent 40K on shoes while sitting on that seat – Sex in the City. The store doesn’t sell the crazy labels though, there all kind of cheap. Ha.


Here’s the other picture I thought I should post. This one has pride of place on Chris and Claire’s fridge. It's annoying to think this was taken to celebrate the start of spring but it's still like 3 degrees everyday - and this big storm happened on the weekend with 7 inches of rain falling in central park. Stupid.

So this week at work it was lulu's birthday. Emil made her a little birthday hat to celebrate - she wasn't happy.




Sheri and Lu Lu.

I'm becoming one of those crazy cat people that always take photos of their cats. Lulu just poses so much. This wont be the last pointless picture of a cat included in the blog...there just so damn cute.


This sits behind my desk. It’s a birthday gift from one of Marcs friends , a great illustrator - Aaron Meshon.


Fuck Yeah


{Elyanna, Nick, Heather and Kristen.}
Here’s my new neighbors. They’re the ones that I went out with Saturday night. A tiny bit of them is featured in the photo booth - pics. They’ve got the coolest forrest print on their lounge room wall.

American diners have so many items on their menu it makes me dizzy. Should I have shredded bacon, maple syrup AND turkey, beef chicken and mayo with sprinkles and a whole cow? Or just the eggs, shredded bacon and maple syrup.

The choices are what I'm getting at - I think back home we try to limit the choices to minimise confusion. But New Yorkers know what they want and enjoy the options...

Here’s a funny example of that I found at a bar in west village on the weekend.


This was in one cubicle mind you.

Any way. I'm just passing through to correct some of the spelling mistakes - but this post was crap - I'll get cracking on the new one.

In the next issue: Donat will be the first to answer the NYC 10 questions, Monty Python musical, times square, parties and central park.