A blog about New York City, my books, and my cats. Mostly.
My reading on November 15th has a theme!
Law Enforcement and International Intrigue Night
KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street
November 15, 2005
7-9 PM, FREE!
The readers are going to be me, Nate Blakeslee, who wrote TULIA : Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town, and Edith Mirante, author of DOWN THE RAT HOLE; Adventures Underground on Burma’s Frontier.
Lovely. What is it? Please don’t let it be one of those flying waterbug (giant cockroach) things. They make me cry.
I’m going to go to the Marathon today. That makes me cry too, but it’s a good cry.
I went to Bergdorfs to buy a bottle of First perfume, which I had run out of, and while it was being rung up I gushed, “I just love this perfume,” because I do and I was so happy to have a new bottle. One of the men who worked there said, “Wait a moment. I’m going to get you a present,” and he went off and came back with a box with two First scented soaps and a tiny travel sized bottle of First perfume!!
The power of gushing!!
I bought a cat bed, a special self-heating cat bed (it has a layer of mylar inside). I was afraid they wouldn’t use it and it would be a waste of money but here (the grey one is Buddy – you can see from this shot why I frequently say to him, “Who is my great big bear of kitty? Who is the biggest kitty of all time?? Buddy!”):
The pattern clashes with the rug, but I have since tried the other side, which is all black, and they sleep on that side, too.