Passover stuff!

Heck yeah Jiffy Pop!

@meredithtwhite & @lolololori present the White girls, the ice cream factory and a tandem bike #liketimetravelbutdifferent

Taken at Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory

@halanscott sings Ke$ha

Taken at Metropolitan

2nd line

Taken at Coney Island Beach and Boardwalk

Bunk!

Taken at Best Buy

"This song goes out to all the ladies." @MeredithTWhite throws on some Beyonce

Taken at Sea Oats Motel

If only they canceled flights for good weather.

Taken at Sea Oats Motel

Took care of business, now off to the vacation spot of my ancestors

Taken at Gate C50

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What? @aaronbelz wasn't kidding when he said he'd send me his first book if I bought the second.

@meredithrwhite, your dream bike is lookin' goooooood! Come and get it!

Taken at Wine & Liquors

He is literally cracking a band out of an egg. #BAMF

Taken at Permanent Records

Finally. Shopping like they used to do.

Taken at Urban jungle

Green!

Taken at MTA - Myrtle Ave/Broadway J/M/Z

Rhodes Scholars - but can they croon?

I started this conversation - after watching Ambassador Rice (Rhodes scholar, INCREDIBLE superwoman athlete - exemplar of the Rhodes Scholarship Standards) on Charlie Rose -  and starting to get to thinking about the USA seeming to take for granted that sportsmen are leaders - exemplars of "using one's talents to the fullest" and musicians as, well not as implicitly leadershippy. To which I say, j'accuse! (mostly b/c I always want to say that and I can't ever find the perfect occasion - so we'll just pretend it fits) Paul McCartney, I'm sure, agrees with me.

He is, after all, my favorite Beatle.

The collaboration and the need to LITERALLY be in tune with your fellows, all of them (there's no offensive winds section and defensive horns section - not in a good orchestra anyway) - these are qualities we want in leaders. So Mr. Rhodes. You may have founded the De Beers diamond mining company (and a country) - but can you croon?!


I wanted to bring this up because a) I went to a high school that had a LOT of musician leaders and I'm a music leader myself (show choir counts) b) I believe in music as a training ground for once and future leaders.

As The Dashed One says - if you didn't blog it, it didn't happen. * I gotta process these thoughts that I've let be free for the past 2 years (!). Bear with me as I learn to value my own musings again. I'm humbled to silence by the great voices around me. But I turn into a sponge first - THEN a sprinkler when I'm thrown into a pond of geniuses - this happened in college, high school, and even learning to talk - I didn't even speak until I was 2, but, as the legend goes - my first word was OWL and many many sentences followed not far thereafter.

* For those of you playing along, it may appear that nothing has happened. There's an internet equation, we're going to call it life busy-ness inversely proportional to blog-business -- and if you can even that proportion out, you're a winner. You're on your way to becoming a Leader in the New School. Which is to say - I have been terrible at this. A lot been going on in the back-channel in my first year in NYC (coming up on my one year appartmentiversary - memories). I'll be kind and rewind a bit soon.

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Sent from my telephone.

@NYCTSubwayScoop any word on the JMZ? Lot of cold people waiting out here at the Marcy stop...?

Economist photo captions are really their best social object outside of the articles themselves. Gold in them thar hills.

drawings of the mississippi river valley

Vestiges of my former blogger profile/bio:

I like to talk to you about the hijinks I get up to here in Yankeetown, StL, cities, social media and the e-dreams of building a tech mega region in my 3 favorite cities...St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans (Nashville can come, too). I like to dream of a futuristic St. Louis that's kept an eye on its past. I think all cities should forward backward think like that. Does that make sense? I don't know.

I'm still interested in this stuff, BTW.

drawings of the mississippi river valley
Originally uploaded by lolololori

In other news, the blog looks newer now. It's exciting!
Mod podge 4 ever.