Some Book Titles

Two memoirs, one for now, one for later:

The Puberty of My Career

and

The Premature and Tragic Ending of the Puberty of My Career

In bookstores soon.

VOLKSbühne!

What can I find to eat on a plane?

What I ate in the last 24 hours:

-a $4 bottle of fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice from JFK airport*
-crunchy airport apple
-oily chickpea airport salad
-large black airport tea
-mushy orzo and steamed vegetable "sweet and sour" slop on the airplane (one of the more disgusting vegan airplane meals in a while)
-brown airplane roll with margarine
-airplane fruit
-airplane salad greens
-breakfast airplane banana
-nature valley airplane breakfast granola bar
-airplane tea
-hotel coffee
-street falafel
-dinner ramen with vegs
-kimchee
-seaweed salad
-inordinate amount of midnight prezels (Brezels)
-1,5 liter bottle of water...my body begs for home.

*I didn't pay for it. The second time I've gotten a fancy drink as a result of a "clerical error" in my favor in the last week. I'm not giving it back.

Back

Cold salty ocean air of Howard Beach greets me and my suitcases at JFK. Reading Just Kids on the flight home, I thought about Patti and Robert's trips to Coney Island, and made a plan to go to the sea before it gets too warm.

Tragic and Damning

This was on the front page of the NYT homepage for one hot second and then got yanked to the World section, and not even to the top, but buried like 12 stories down behind China not wanting to report on protests and rising oil prices. What is going on?? Why are we in this shitty war???

Gathering Firewood, 9 Afghan Boys Killed by NATO Helicopters