It’s A Tough Town.

What a checkered day. I started renovation work around nine as Leigh was getting ready for office work. She was tasked with double-parking the car before eleven-thirty (so the street cleaner can go by) and I would move it back to the cleaned side of the street around twelve-thirty. Each move requires you getting out there a little early, shifting the car and then sitting with it until it’s legal. It’s a tough business and I’ve seen some monumental screaming matches erupt between people vying for the same spot!

Leigh left the apartment and no more than a minute passed when my cell phone rang and she told me that our car, which was parked directly in front of our building, had its rear left window smashed in and the contents of the way-back were gone. Some ne’er do wells had decided that the car jack ($35) and two jack stands ($25) were so valuable that risking imprisonment was an option.

I’m a liberal as many of you know. But for those who mistakenly conflate liberalism with “softie”, let me set the record straight. Generally, I don’t like people. I enjoy animals and inanimate objects far more than most humans and I have no sympathy for the stupidity that these goons displayed by stealing sixty bucks worth of stuff by throwing—get this—an old axel, through my car window. Our street has security camera’s sprouting from lamp-posts and building corners because of Columbia University’s effort to provide a safe environment for their medical students. I think I can get them to review some tapes. Maybe we’ll get these morons yet!

On a brighter note, I did a reading tonight of a play-in-the-making, penned by Carol Gilligan based on the The Scarlet Letter with myself, a young actress named Becky, Keira Naughton, and David Straithairn .

So, that’s New York for ya.

Oh, and here's a very confused Hank, trying to get used to the new layout.




Oh, and by the way. The two NYPD cops that came over today to take the smashed window report, They looked at Emerson from the hallway and thought he was a dog. I'm just saying, these cats are big! She wouldn't let it go either, she kept saying to her partner, "Damn, I thought that was a dog!".