I’m continually amazed — if I do say so myself — that this blog has been going for over nine years. Honestly speaking, beyond the fact that I’m routinely flabbergasted that anyone ever actually reads the thing, every time I finish a post, I am usually pretty convinced that I have wrung every last idea from the echoey expanse of my skull. As such, doubt sets in that I’ll ever again conceive of anything worth posting. Each entry feels like it could very well be the last.
In recent weeks, invariably due to a laborious amount of “free time” (read: I’m still out of a job), I’ve put up a slew of what I’d consider really great content. I believe I’ve been on something of a streak since the beginning of 2015, for whatever reason. I’ve just been fortunate (albeit solely in the blogging department) that something’s rolled down the pike or popped into my head on an almost daily basis that’s felt worth addressing and/or expounding upon.
But, as always, in the wake of last Monday’s post about the arguable merits of being a bone fide native New Yorker, I feel like I have once again drained the tank dry. Sure, I did that quick post on Friday about Neal Boenzi’s amazing photograph, but that was really just a passing place-holder. It’s more of a pretty piece of eye-candy than a proper post.
I’m now back to staring into the void, so to speak, waiting for inspiration to strike. I never want to get to the point — or get back to the point — wherein I’m just putting stuff up here simply for the sake of posting something. I’d much prefer everything I put up here to be worth a reader’s time.
With that in mind, I do have a sort of figurative folder of sort of “evergreen content,” to borrow some old office lingo. In other words, a clutch of ideas that I’ve yet to fully flesh-out that aren't specifically rooted to any single current event. Some may be worth exploring, while others…not so much.
Being that I’m in a dry patch, I thought I’d present them here to gauge potential reader interest. If any of these strike you as something you’d care about reading, do let me know…
- Singing Up Sixth Avenue - A brief rumination on a select handful of contemporary pop and rock songs that, for one reason or another, make address-specific allusions to the Avenue of the Americas.
- Good Riddance: Some Businesses I’d Like to See Close - Pretty much exactly what it says on the box, however mean-spirited, tasteless and karmically unsound.
- Restaurants That’ll Tolerate 8- & 10-Year-Olds - A service-y piece on just that; NYC eateries that will do their best to suppress their sneer when you enter with two potentially cantankerous children.
- Where Did All The Pizza Go? - A fraught rumination on the withering state of the classic New York City Pizzeria, ideally appended with a photographic homage to same.
- Where Have All The Diners Gone? - Replace the word “pizzeria” with “diner” in the above concept.
- A Beautiful Location For a Homicide: The Loneliest Spots in Manhattan - It frequently occurs to me, while I’m criss-crossing the byways of Manhattan, that even despite all the over-development, there are still loads of dank alcoves, dimly-lit alleys, forgotten corners, lonely courtyards and other seemingly abandoned patches of desolate concrete around this city where something absolutely dreadful could happen…and no one would know about it for quite some time.
- Places Where You Can Still Browse - I have this problem wherein I pretty much get EVERYwhere early. I consider it being punctual, considerate and responsible (I’d rather be early than late), but not everyone agrees. In any case, I used to thwart the downside of getting to my destinations early by finding the nearest book store (or record/disc shop) and browsing until it was officially time (or more socially acceptable) to arrive. But as times have changed, there are fewer and fewer places left in Manhattan wherein you can just pop in and browse.
- Faces of New York City - A photographic montage of the carved concrete visage.
- Never Say Never Again: More from The New York Never List - Ultimately a gratuitous expounding on this post from a little over a week ago.
- Who Remember Live Skull? A brief remembrance of a great band.
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