NY-Day 05: Is This Kosher?

It's taken me all week to
summon the courage to eat here:



The Kosher house my aunt and uncle keep has sent my stomach into a tailspin of odd cravings and this seemed to be the perfect cure --- a resteraunt DESIGNED for:
A) Gentiles staying in an orthodox neighborhood.
B) Pregnant Women.



It turns out the menus are separate, not just on the wall...
but as paper handouts as well...
"Take the Tex-Mex menu for flatulence; Take the Chinese menu for the trots."

I was a little disappointed by this and had a long and involved conversation with the proprietor about wether or not I could get a "China-Mex Mix." He used lots of words like "crazy" and "bullshit" (and/or their mandarin equivalents I am sure of it); I used lots of words like "Why?" and "Why not?"

I finally convinced him to At Least make me a:
"General Tsao's Chicken Taco Plate."


I bet the Guacamole Eggroll is amazing,
and the Kung Pao Mole' with a side of MooShoo Shrimp Posole' is a meal to die for.

Lost the Office Space.

I knew it couldn't last... someone "had dibs" on the office...
A nice woman named "Diana" spoke those words of avarice and informed me that the beautiful corner view was supposed to be hers.

Do you kiss your mother with that mouth Diana?

I politely traded... thing is... The view is still pretty good and its a way bigger office than anything else i have had... and anything beats hearing "The Mexican Hat Dance" from the burrito truck every 5 minutes like i did in my office in Santa Monica -- besides:

1) All that light from the 2 windows was casting glare on my edit suite.
2) She left a ton of good pens and highlighters.
3) I am keeping her swingline.

NY-Day 04: Winter Storm Watch/Warning

urgent - winter weather message
national weather service upton ny
1003 pm est thu feb 24 2005
...nor'easter strengthening offshore...



...winter storm warning remains in effect until around daybreak friday...snow will persist overnight...

DaveMac-Graeme VideoChat

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Originally uploaded by MACmofoX.

A picture is worth a thousand words and I know at least 3 people that will each take 333 of 'em to tell me about this -- that leaves me with 1...

NY-Day 03

I am pretty sure that when ozzy wrote "Crazy Train" it was while he was riding a subway to work--And I always thought that song was about Lita Ford. Well now I know better...

•Forget about the Bum that started talking to me while making eye-contact somewhere around 4 feet above and to the left of me. [he has nothing on Santa Monica wierdos... "get your patchouli stink outta my store!"]

•Forget about the fact that the subways probably get pissed in because the tiled walls of the stations remind you of a bathroom in high school.

•Forget about the fact that anyone who has a nose is in for a real treat... (and I'm not even here in the summer!)

Forget about all of that...

There was a ninja on the "F - Train" that tried to kill me today.

F-Train stands for Freaky Train

Uncle Dov

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Originally uploaded by MACmofoX.

This is my crazy Uncle Dov.
I Will Kill Him.

NY-Day 02

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Originally uploaded by MACmofoX.

No problems finding the right train this morning and I thought i would be late to work... but seems 9am around here is early...This was the view I was greeted with when they opened the door to my office -- so i took pictures for day and for

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Originally uploaded by MACmofoX.

my office at night... look closely you can see the hand above the wax museum [madame tussaud's]... i want to try and photoshop it to flip people off for my friends Jessa and Stacey.

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Originally uploaded by MACmofoX.
As to how i got this office--I was told it was dumb luck. essentially. And I'd have to agree... especially since my DUMB LUCKY ASS got lost tonight on the way home... i probably walked a mile in the exact wrong direction out in queens somewhere... thank God for cel phones and sisters with map quest.... and for the fact work starts at the ungodly hour of 10am.

The Bathroom

My Bathroom has an automatic light in it. This is a problem. Its great when you walk in during the middle of the night, but the timer only lasts for about 5 seconds so when I am standing up peeing it goes off on me... i then have to waive my hand behind my head to to turn the damn thing on... this will become a habit i am sure--- standing up peeing in a public restroom waving my left hand behind my head --- I should fit in well in NY, no problem.... Thank God its not a clapper I have to piss with.

NY-Day1

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Originally uploaded by MACmofoX.

New York is a pain in the ass [literally] to get to if you live on the west coast. But I got there ok... and found a Cab shortage waiting for me--I think it was some New Yorker Dicking around with me and the 200 other people in the Damn Cab Line. It was F***king Cold.

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Originally uploaded by MACmofoX.

My Uncle "Dov" decided to take me to the Met straight up Day 1... He wanted to see the Christo Exhibit from the roof.

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Originally uploaded by MACmofoX.

You can kind of see "The Gates" from the roof of the Met.

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Originally uploaded by MACmofoX.

This is a better view of "The Gates"... My Uncle Dov seemed to like it alot... i dunno... thank God its free.