7/5/2006

Rainy day:

Car ride to work, slogging along the FDR drive alongside the East River Park-it's shrouded in fog. The residue of a birthday party lingers on the chain-link fence--a metallic happy birthday banner reduced to the word "birth".

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Midtown (51st and Madison): an astonishing number of grown men wearing those translucent pull-over drugstore ponchos.