The call went out. Maybe you saw the big “U” projected onto the Empire State Building. Maybe you heard the siren song blaring from large speakers mounted on flatbeds circling the city. Maybe you received a little note slipped into your pocket as some nondescript pedestrian brushed by on the sidewalk. RT (Russian Television) needed [...]
Tag Archives: Empire State Building
Let the music play… and I will kill you
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Morning and evening rush hour on the subway is quiet time. The trains are crowded with commuters. But everyone sleeps or reads or daydreams or listens to music through headphones. Nobody talks, and nobody bothers anyone. It’s a very New York feeling to be surrounded and still alone. And during rush hour [...]
Unemployed snow day photo exhibition
Thursday, February 11, 2010
I love a good snow day, even when there’s nothing to stay home from. What kid, or kid at heart, doesn’t? To this day, the news radio chimes make me hope for the words, “Montgomery County schools will be closed today,” no matter the time or season. A snow day is special, a surprise holiday, [...]
The holiday season job I didn’t want and didn’t get, part 3
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
[Read the holiday season job post, part 1 and part 2 so this post makes sense.]
Around 1:30, a full three hours after my arrival, an interviewer led me out of the horribly misnamed Turnover Room and into the interview room across the hall. Set up were two rows of five narrow tables, each with two [...]
Even in unemployment I can’t get away from the Empire State Building
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Story about how the Empire State Building seems to follow me