NYC

New York City just banned tans-fats?!? WTF?

http://suitablyflip.blogs.com/suitably_flip/2006/12/nannyism_in_new.html

I swear to God I actually heard this today:

"Oooh. You can tell this one is 18th century because of the hair-do"

It might appear on overheardinnewyork.com in the future, I submitted it there.

Incidentally, you can also tell from the little tags beside each exhibit, and by looking at enough stuff from the 1700's.

Went to a first read through for a show I'm production managing today. Things went well, looks like a good cast, I ducked out early cause things have been crazy-busy of late and I need all the productive hours I can get. It was arounf 4:30 and I was trying to finish my lunch (yogurt-fruit parfait from Pax, which I love but is way too expensive).

I got out of the pedestrian traffic flow on 8th between 36 & 37, and finish my yogurt. Then I see that I am standing in front of a Staples and I've been thinking about a new scanner for a while. I have the door half way open to the Staples when I here the glass breaking and the screaming.

Perhaps it is a sign that I have been in this city too long that I ahd my phone out and was ready to dial before I saw the 20-something black kid spewing blood from his forehead. 9-1-1. I still don't know how his head wound up trying to go through that storefront - but that seems to be what happened. Blood running like a faucet - good - no artery (arteries pump).

I don't know that there is much that is more frustrating than the NYC apartment hunt. I've begun mine. The only caveat I have is that I want to live by myself.

That apparently is the one thing that nobody wants to let you do. I'm literally looking at one-bedroom apartments that are $200 less than 2 bedroom apartments in the same building... So $1200 and $1400 respectively.

If I put that money into a mortgage I could by some mid-western counties.

This got me looking into other options. I'm handy. I really only need a concrete pad, walls, cieling and a sewer drain. This shouldn't be that hard, right? Wrong.

Looking into commercial real estate I find that I *can* get a storefront or warehouse space for about $1.50/ft/yr - completely illegally, but you could live in it, if you get the right owner. But if you go that route you need 2 months security, maybe more if you have bad credit, and most likely you need someone to rent a small portion of it for business use.