Kens,
Strange, but the last time I drove down West 6th, I didn’t even notice the change. Still a very wide street. I also didn’t notice any bike lanes! I do remember my brother and his friends playing stickball in the middle of 4 lanes of traffic all summer! Our next door neighbors still live there (been there since 1963), so we go back to visit occasionally.
Hi Legion,
Have never been to Fiorintino’s. During the summer my family, friends and I cannot seem to get enough of Spumoni Gardens. The last time we were there a tourist bus came in with about 50 people, and they were in and out before we finished our enormous salads! I still love their pizza and that amazing vanilla ice cream with the crunchy almond topping. Mmmmm.
I’m going away on a 25-day out of state vacation tomorrow. As I did last year, I will share my summer reading list with you all:
FICTION
1. “Bright Lights, Big City” by Jay McInerney. “Each generation needs its Manhattan novel, and many ache to write it. But it was McInerney who succeeded.”-New York Review of Books
2. “Union Atlantic” by Adam Haslett. A rich young financier moves into a historic house in a small New England town and arouses the ire of the town preservationist.
3. “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro. A classically trained English butler reflects on his life of service and his puzzling employer.
NONFICTION
1. “The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn” by Nathaniel Philbrick. A well-reviewed retelling of the famous story, stripped of the judgements usually argued.
2. “Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur” by Max Euwe. A book I meant to read last year, but it arrived too late from Amazon.
3. “In Consolation to His Wife” by Plutarch. I minored in philsophy and I still enjoy reading classical authors; this one is a book of brief essays.
4. “The Gift of Loving-Kindness” by various authors. I recently decided to look into the benefits of meditation, and decided to start here.
Finally, there was one book I considered reading but will save for another time, “Diary of a Very Bad Year” by the anonymous hedge fund manager who writes for the journal n+1. I used to be CONVINCED this guy was Dave.
Have a great vacation IJ.
I had suggested a PLUSA field trip to Spumoni Gardens about one year ago. Yuuuummmmmmmyyyyyyyyy!!
Kens,
Strange, but the last time I drove down West 6th, I didn’t even notice the change. Still a very wide street. I also didn’t notice any bike lanes! I do remember my brother and his friends playing stickball in the middle of 4 lanes of traffic all summer! Our next door neighbors still live there (been there since 1963), so we go back to visit occasionally.
Enjoy your vacation, jester.
bennie, I LURVE L&Bs pizza and their rainbow spumoni. yum yum yum.
Hi Legion,
Have never been to Fiorintino’s. During the summer my family, friends and I cannot seem to get enough of Spumoni Gardens. The last time we were there a tourist bus came in with about 50 people, and they were in and out before we finished our enormous salads! I still love their pizza and that amazing vanilla ice cream with the crunchy almond topping. Mmmmm.
Thanks kens, glad it worked out.
m4l, re-fin my house upstate right now. Even tho it’s a second home, 4.23 for 15y fixed.
25 day vacation – haven’t had one like that since graduation from college and before starting work. so so jealous
PLUSA friends and lurkers,
I’m going away on a 25-day out of state vacation tomorrow. As I did last year, I will share my summer reading list with you all:
FICTION
1. “Bright Lights, Big City” by Jay McInerney. “Each generation needs its Manhattan novel, and many ache to write it. But it was McInerney who succeeded.”-New York Review of Books
2. “Union Atlantic” by Adam Haslett. A rich young financier moves into a historic house in a small New England town and arouses the ire of the town preservationist.
3. “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro. A classically trained English butler reflects on his life of service and his puzzling employer.
NONFICTION
1. “The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn” by Nathaniel Philbrick. A well-reviewed retelling of the famous story, stripped of the judgements usually argued.
2. “Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur” by Max Euwe. A book I meant to read last year, but it arrived too late from Amazon.
3. “In Consolation to His Wife” by Plutarch. I minored in philsophy and I still enjoy reading classical authors; this one is a book of brief essays.
4. “The Gift of Loving-Kindness” by various authors. I recently decided to look into the benefits of meditation, and decided to start here.
Finally, there was one book I considered reading but will save for another time, “Diary of a Very Bad Year” by the anonymous hedge fund manager who writes for the journal n+1. I used to be CONVINCED this guy was Dave.
Peace everybody!
TextperV, shouldn’t you be giving milk to the baby vs. posting here?