A blog about New York City, my books, and my cats. Mostly.
In a good way. I’ve got two interviews about the book, all this choir stuff (two orchestra rehearsals we’re allowed to sit in on). First up, today! I’ve being interviewed on the Faith Middleton Show, the window cleaners come this afternoon and therapy after (interesting combo). I took this picture on Fifth Avenue. Wouldn’t it be great to live on that top floor?
Just now, right this second almost, I got two action shots of Finney. Here he is, jumping down off the armoire to hang out with me.
Then he changed his mind and sat in the window. And yawned. Okay, they’re not great shots really, but I got excited.
This is the second year of the World Science Festival. I went to a few of the panels last year and had a GREAT time. I’m trying to decide which to go to and having a tough time of it. I wish I could just go to all of them, but not only can I not afford it, a bunch that look really good are happening at the same time. I’ve settled on two so far.
One is called Notes and Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus, and the other is Infinite Worlds, and I’m going to that one because someone I interviewed is on the panel, and I loved his answers (and the subject is interesting, of course). The full schedule is here. GO GO GO if you’re in NYC, or plan to be visiting.
Someone famous lived here. e. e. cummings? I forget. I could Google. It’s gated. You have to have a key to walk on this block. Doesn’t seem quite fair, but there it is. Oh, the Wikipedia entry is well worth reading. My favorite part was this bit about e. e. cummings, who did live there, and writer Djuna Barnes. “After her return to New York she became so reclusive that Cummings would occasionally check on her by shouting out his window ‘Are you still alive, Djuna?'”
