It is extremely difficult to resist a display as relentlessly compelling as this one. Kit Kat bars are good...in moderation obviously. 
Do you like my new white car? It's perfect for summer and goes well with my shoes which are also white and my eyeballs which are white too. It's so damn hard to find a parking space, but the good thing is I can fit my entire library in the back seat. 
In case you didn't know it, today is National Lasagna Day. My celebration consisted of going to Faicco's Pork Shop on Bleecker. It's probably the best Italian butcher shop in Manhattan. Among other things, they make great sandwiches. I also like the fried cheese ravioli ($3 for a dozen). So delicious. But for $10 the Italian hero is a great lunch. It's enormous and more than filling. Eating one is really just about enough food for the entire day. They also sell great lasagna for take out. I actually bought some for later not even realizing that it was coincidentally a holiday of sorts. 
Screw the recession, I'm having a $1,000 breakfast!
Because it was hot out and this looked cool and refreshing, I bought a orange soda with my sandwich for lunch today. I found a little deli place on 5th Avenue near the Guggenheim Museum that had overpriced sandwiches. Lunch was good and after a long bike ride around the circumference of the park I needed a short break. I went to a couple of different museums and had a nice day out and about. Surprisingly, for a change I didn't get caught in the rain.
Things are usually open late in the East Village. Here's a hat shop just after 11pm on Saturday night on 7th Street right near McSorley's.
I go here to get coffee most mornings. It's $1.50 for a large coffee. The small used to be .90, but one day they just raised the price to $1.00 without any warning. I usually put in just a tiny bit of milk and one sugar. That's the way I like it. Your preference may vary. I used to go to Zibetto around the corner, but I haven't been there in a while. Zibetto is way better coffee, but I've cut back. I'm doing my part for the recession.
Here's what the news looked like on Thursday. It changes every day. I'm pretty much over the Michael Jackson story at this point. I think Joseph Jackson is to blame for everything that went wrong with Michael.
These machines are beasts. As best I can tell, they slice up the sidewalks so that crews with jackhammers can come along and make a huge racket fixing the underbelly of the city. It's pretty obvious from my picture (click image for closer inspection) that enormous men in sunglasses with tribal tattoos and who smoke large cigars are required to operate this sort of heavy machinery.
Product placement on socks. 
This really takes the whole vegan thing to an entirely another level. I like carrots and peas too, but not enough to glue them to my car. Oh, I don't have a car, but my skateboard or my bike or you know what I mean. I could always just glue them to your car. I know exactly how to do that esp. after I got some tips last week from the wheat paste guy. I'll do it at night and you won't even notice. 
Did you ever wonder how all of those movie posters get plastered up all over the city? I found out how this happens on Friday night around midnight. It only takes one guy with a combination large scraper/mop and a bucket of glue to do the trick. 
I haven't done this in a long time, but I broke out my skateboard and skated through Times Square on Saturday night on the way to the movies on 42nd Street. (I saw (500) Days of Summer. It was very good.) 7th Avenue is newly paved so it was smooth sailing right through all of the traffic. 
Karma...it's a bitch. The Gray Dog's Coffee on Carmine Street. 
I never take pictures with the camera on my phone, but I do like this one of Mr. Orange.
You definitely don't need an alarm clock when five fire trucks show up with their sirens blaring at 6AM. With no signs of a fire, they left ten minutes later. Thanks for the wake up guys.
There is perhaps one thing better than Four Seas Ice Cream (see next post below) and that is Friendly's. I recommend the legendary super-thick soft serve shake, otherwise known as the unbeatable Fribble! I always go for the coffee flavor. And they make great grilled cheese sandwiches too. There's really not much better than that.
What could possibly be more American than a trip to an old-fashioned homemade ice cream parlor? 
Better late than never. Five years after everyone else is doing the cell phone thing, Central Park finally gets on the the stick. Literally.
Def Leppard, Cheap Trick and Poison on the same bill. Serious? 
It's a pretty great day when the Oreo Truck pulls up outside your building. I totally want some Oreo Fun Stix cause they look amazing and elephants are great. Don't you think?
A quick tour of Central Park is best accomplished with a pink helmet and matching flip flops.
C'mon, surely they could have come up with a better way to describe the new candy Kazoozles than "Delickoricious?"
Catching some rays on the concrete beach. It looks like he's mostly catching some rays from the plasma advertising screen though.
As if we really needed another confusing sign to specifically explain what WALK and DON'T WALK means. This brilliant sign is located somewhere on Park Avenue.
Who doesn't love it when the Doritos truck shows up?
Pizza slices for only $1.00. I bought two. Not the best pizza I ever had, but not so bad either. There are so many signs in this picture!
