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  • Message To The Beyond

    A fire escape isn’t the smartest place to light a fire, but I had to send a letter to the Great Beyond, and here on Earth, you make do with what you’ve got. I like to think the God of Fire Prevention looks out for situations like this and gives it…

  • ATL Day 3.3: Airport Zoetrope

    The Treo camera that I make this blog with pretty much sucks, but as the cliche goes, the best camera in the world is the one you’ve got with you when you need the shot. (Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta)

  • ATL Day 3.2: Mixed Messages

    Dustin, on the other hand, is both full of personality and efficient. (Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta)

  • ATL Day 3.1: Flights To & From

    Hartsfield is personality-free, but efficient. (Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta)

  • ATL Day 2: The Earth Is A Pot

    On Saturday, the city too busy to hate became the city too hot to be walking around lost for an hour-and-a-half. But if I hadn’t gotten lost I wouldn’t have seen this great sign. (Ponce de Leon & Moreland, Atlanta)

  • ATL Day 1: Will I Ever Be Cool?

    I came to Atlanta to help save the world, but I wound up spending a lot of time standing in line with a friend that really, really needed to buy something the first day it came out. I was feeling quite guilty about this, but then someone reminded …

  • Colma: The Musical

    You’ve heard this story before: a budding auteur makes a movie for no money, wins audience raves and awards on the festival circuit, builds awesome word-of-mouth, and gets the holy grail of the indie filmmaker — theatrical distribution. Finally, …

  • Man Push Cart (And Dog)

    (Grand St & Bowery, Manhattan)

  • Historically Clean

    Have you been to MoCA? It’s one of Chinatown’s lesser-known pleasures. Check it out at its current space before it moves into bigger digs next year. (Museum of Chinese in the Americas, Manhattan)

  • The Fine Print

    (Riverside, RI)

  • Delish

    (Bouley Bakery, Manhattan)

  • This Isn’t The Droid You’re Looking For

    (Bayard St, Manhattan)

  • Ferry Orange

    (Staten Island Ferry)

  • Pimp My Cam

    Whether you think a HV20 with Brevis is awesome or awful, you gotta be awed by 24p high-def for $950. I’m shooting my next film with this combo, no matter how insane it looks. (Manhattan)

  • Downtown to Uptown

    (Fulton St Station, Manhattan)

  • Humphrey Boulevard

    (Staten Island, NY)

  • Monday is Cat Week: Escape!

    (Animal Kind Veterinary Hospital, Brooklyn)

  • QTIP Rehearsing

    The second reading of NO TIME FOR CHAMPIONS went quite well. We had a wonderful standing-room-only audience and I’ve got lots of ideas for making the play better. Thanks Jo, Ralph, Paolo, Les, Kent, Erwin, and the cool people at QTIP for making it…

  • Broadway Below

    (Broadway & 57 St, Manhattan)

  • Voice Mail

    (57 St Station, Manhattan)

  • EWR, 5:30 a.m.

    I don’t fly out of Newark very often, but it seems to me like the usability gap between EWR and JFK has really narrowed. Even up until a few years ago, getting to and around JFK was a complete nightmare. And once you got there, you were met with h…

  • Red Velvet

    If you’re even a little curious about the red velvet craze that’s sweeping New York, I can’t think of a better place to start than Daisy May’s. Run, don’t walk. This photo doesn’t do it justice. (Daisy May’s BBQ, Manhattan)

  • Paper Pup

    I know mall pet stores are supposed to be terrible places to buy animals like dogs and cats, but you can certainly see why there’s a market for them. How can anyone resist something this cute? (Willowbrook Mall, Wayne, NJ)

  • Year of the Pig, Aisle Eight

    (Hong Kong Supermarket, Brooklyn)

  • C-Town D-Fighters

    Chinese New Year’s is just around the corner…will it be busy days ahead for the FDNY Chinatown Dragon Fighters? (75-77 Canal St, Manhattan)

  • Sunshine & Ocean

    (Brooklyn)

  • Station New Haven

    (New Haven, CT)

  • Goddesses on Grand

    (Grand St, Manhattan)

  • Rest Now

    (New Jersey)

  • If You See Something

    If you see this when the elevator opens on your floor, you hereby have my permission to take the stairs. (Upper West Side, Manhattan)

  • Self Portraiting

    (Lok Sing, 290 Grand St, Manhattan)

  • A Hazy Happiness

    Jo may have gotten to the lobby before I did, but in blogging — as in love — it’s all about who posts first. I have no idea what that means, actually. (Le Parker Meridien Hotel, Manhattan)

  • Celebrity Refill

    Now, I know this can???t possibly be Mayor Bloomberg refilling his Lipitor, but that doesn’t mean I can’t still chuckle to myself at the thought of it. Who knows? Maybe he earned some of his fortune through stock photo modeling. (Whitehall St & Ston…

  • Way Out

    (Battery Park, Manhattan)

  • Moving

    Moving is stressful, emotional, and hard on your back. If you’re sentimental like me, you can’t help but be reminded of just how temporary life is while you pack, seal, lift all those boxes. So always get a friend to help, even if you have movers …

  • To Remember You

    To remember you on the day you left us, I went to the place where you worked for a dozen years, six nights a week (sometimes seven), for eight to ten hours a day. You would come home reeking of food, oil, smoke. You did this because you had two ki…

  • TPE: Waiting

    Goodbye, again. Can’t wait until the next time. (Jiantan MRT Station, Taipei)

  • TPE: Faith Is Where You Find It

    (Off Shipai Rd, Taipei)

  • TPE: Shipai Market

    (Shipai Night Market, Taipei)

  • TPE: Campus Envy 2

    (National Taiwan University, Taipei)

  • TPE: Campus Envy 1

    NTU has a really nice campus. It reminds me a lot of Stanford. Not like I would have gotten in there, either. (National Taiwan University, Taipei)

  • TPE: Boring Aggression

    (Off Roosevelt Rd, Taipei)

  • TPE: I S–t You Not

    There is a special place in Heaven for someone in Taipei’s public sign-making bureaucracy. Xie xie! (Near Mingde, Taipei)

  • TPE: Ja La Foo Scoot

    I’m dying to bring a Taiwanese scooter back to Brooklyn with me. Unfortunately, Carrefour won’t ship any of these to the States. (Carrefour, Taipei)

  • TPE: Doctors’ Day for One Night

    Taiwan has many holidays celebrating civil servants, including Doctors’ Day. For one day out of the year, docs can let their hair down and chung ger to a crowd of adoring fans. The white coats stay on, however. (Veterans General Hospital, Taipei)

  • TPE: Memorial

    The Taipei 101 building seems to grow out of the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial on this rainy day. (Sun Yat-Sen Memorial, Taipei)

  • TPE: Comfort, Food

    My grandmother used to make this fatty pork dish for us growing up in NJ. Back then, I’m sure I wished we were eating McDonald’s instead, but now I can’t get enough of it. Ah, youth… (Shipai Road, Taipei)

  • TPE: Bat Alley

    Every night, I make the four-minute walk from our apartment to the hospital. The trip is short and mundane, but often the highlight of my day. Taipei can be oppressively hot when the sun is out, but the evenings are often beautifully mild and bree…

  • TPE: Hospital Cleaners Rule

    OK, maybe I can complain about one thing: at this hospital, no matter how sick you are, when the cleaning crew comes to perform its annual floor waxing, you gonna get your shit and your terminally ill asses out of the room until we say its OK to c…

  • TPE: Above It All

    I’ve never spent this much time in a hospital before, but I’m finding it hard to find anything to complain about. The staff and facilities have been great. The view is not bad either. (Veterans General Hospital, Taipei)