ten shits we like, about summer in new york

1: seeing your friends on the street:
i've been seeing the lovely dana goldstein everywhere as the summer progresses and i couldn't be a happier clam about it. you see just about everyone strolling the streets because who wants to be inside, and no one has a job!

2: seeing famous people on the street:
dana is a legend and could arguably be a part of this category, but just this week we've run into julia restoin-roitfeld, heidi mount, ali michael, kirsten dunst, someone from that seventies show, georgia frost, and amy sedaris. someone told me they even saw barack obama. exciting???

3: exploring the city:
with free time and good weather comes the chance to go places you wouldn't normally go during the winter. times square for instance (where we posed with barbie at toys 'r' us, and nuts4nuts on the street), and prospect park (where i tried out some edgy new hairstyles)

4: street food!:
you are walking around all day, get famished, and need something now. your options are endless in the big apple, whether what you want is indeed an apple, some middle eastern pita sandwich fare, an ice cream cone, or the aforementioned sugary nuts from a cart, your stomach will be pleased. the newly established pizza truck in meatpacking helps to expand your options[nymag.com, grub street]

5: free shit:
there are free concerts (prospect park is doing a summer concert series!), free movies (thompkins square sometimes has a screen, so does bryant park), free drinks (if you party with harold kuhn, go to b.east on thursday before midnight, or know how to shoplift), free v magazine sometimes outside the v/visionaire offices, and free entertainment making fun of old bitches in tight pink dresses in the lower east side.

6: cheap shit:
if you do happen to have a smidgeon of cash, there are a plethora of things you can spend it on and make it last. $1 pizza on saint marks (duh), $7 student discount at village east cinema on tuesdays, $2.75 mini-flask of georgi vodka at the liquor store on delancy (about two drinks), $8 train ride to connecticuit, $4 breakfast at b&h dairy before 11 am, half price sushi at ennju after 7pm at ennju on 17th and broadway, and $0.99 circus peanuts at rite-aid!

6: menswear shows:
they start soon people! even though that means a big chunk of the city's hot boyz will be out of town, you can still see them wear pretty clothes.

7:thompkins square park:
ab-so-lute-ly-love-ly. and you can always find a naked homeless in the bathroom. who doesn't want a little edge with their leisure?

8: bruno!:
the raunchy german lands july 11th, and i'd better see everyone at the fucking theater! love your faah-shun.

9: it's hot!:
complain about muggy heat all you want, but it's better to be warm then freezing cold and attacked by ice falling from the sky... yes, really.

10: being able to go out...alot:
it kills us, yes, but the city feeds on it, so stay up late, move your bootie, and fuck like you've never heard of a sexually transmitted disease.



....and i still love chelsea lately