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October 2001 01: New York/anti-New York
- A massive clothes shopping spree and thoughts about the ugliness of the World Trade Center.
02: poetry hell
- I attend a tribute to A. R. Ammons.
03: indecipherable Morse code
- Squirting Noah the cat for his annoying night time behavior.
04: Osama bin Laden of the feline world
- The neighborhood alley cat is a regular cat who rubs against my leg.
05: good time to buy stock
- I buy Southwest Airlines and Budweiser.
06: Fiery Furnaces at the Bowery Ballroom
- I see the band for which Mikila is a drummer.
07: Boggle party
- Strikes on Afghanistan and we host a Boggle Party.
08: masking a creepy form of male arrogance
- Gretch and I attend a poetry reading in the East Village.
09: peaceful boredom of my afternoon
- Computer headaches once more devour hours of my life.
10: dedicated to the task of keeping me from falling
- Also, I meet that OLJ person Jay.
11: ice cold watah
- Also, how watching CNN is like chewing gum endlessly.
12: museum of a museum
- Gretchen and I visit the American Museum of Natural History.
13: star-shaped leaves
- Also, about remaking the classic children's movie Free to Be You and Me.
14: in the bathtub or something stupid
- I discover a hacker community built around the 3COM Audrey.
15: two-dimensional dissecting tray
- I eat a dish cooked by Gretchen's friend.
16: East Village drunk
- I get really drunk with that internet guy Jay.
17: free from the chains of nausea
- A really unpleasant hangover ruins a perfectly good day.
18: modern post-snailmail reality
- I pick up an envelope and start to wonder what path it has traveled.
19: one beer Friday
- Gretchen and I walk around the Lower East Side with a guy named Jim who reminds her of her friend Spencer.
20: Sally and Suzy go to the beach
- Gretchen and I go with Nancy and Ray to the Beach in Brooklyn.
21: Storm King
- An outdoor sculpture garden brings in Upstate New York.
22: all hell
- Is there anything more fucked up left to happen in the world?
23: Sally and Noah go to the vet
- The Humane Society in the Upper East Side of Manhattan is one big lesbian soap opera.
24: Sally meets Suzy in the Prospect Park
- Another beautiful Indian Summer day in Brooklyn.
25: we need to be confronting our fears
- Also, a little something about the value of babies.
26: interstate buses in 2001
- I ride an interstate bus for the first time since 1989.
27: integrity of ancient information
- I make a few interesting observations in the course of a long boring Conservative Jewish service.
28: wedding view on weak levels of tussin
- I attend my first formal wedding, a traditional Jewish affair.
29: a black squirrel named Karl
- I see a squirrel building a nest at Gretchens' parents place and then we drive back to Brooklyn.
30: de facto free
- Wondering about consumer software in a post-Napster world.
31: hill billy handkerchief in Prospect Park
- An especially quiet Halloween in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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