This weekend I finished Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, the exhaustive oral history of the New York City punk scene . It was a fascinating and trashy read, and it had me obsessing about music even more than I usually do. So I gave myself a 5-4-3-2-1 project, inspired by an assignment […]
When a friend offers to let you stay in her Brooklyn apartment for the weekend, you say “Yes.” I had made plans to travel to New York this weekend to see a painting (more on that later), and my friend Audrey, whose generosity is legendary, asked if I would like to stay in her apartment […]
We didn’t just view thousand-year-old artwork during our brief trip to New York; we also saw the Mets. Well, let’s not simplify it too much. First, Renee and I had a wonderful dinner with our dear friend Audrey at her apartment in Brooklyn. She made us scallops with asparagus, let us play with her […]
On Saturday, July 10, Renee and I visited the Cloisters Museum and Garden in Manhattan. The Cloisters Museum and Garden is owned by the Metropolitan Museum, and is dedicated to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. It was started by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who imported ruined abbeys from Spain brick by brick […]
Well, I am comfortably settled into my room at Yale and looking forward to my first day studying Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales with Lee Patterson. But before I begin looking forward, I would like to look backwards to the drive that got me up here. Day 1 was a stunning study in efficiency. I traveled 649 miles […]