Posts Tagged ‘Europe’

On Two Questions We Are More Willing To Ask Than To Answer

01Jan09

In which The Gay Recluse lands. We finally descended through the clouds, and — while looking out at the approaching city — were confronted by two questions. Is it possible that we actually live here? And could it really be 2009?


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On Our Christmas Eve Triumph, the Zabar’s “Trifecta”

24Dec07

The occasion: a brunch for eight in our Washington Heights apartment, scheduled to begin in exactly 3 hours and 48 minutes. Which is to say that it was 9:12 am and we were in the car racing south on the West Side Highway, having already vanquished the Fairway in West Harlem, where despite the early […]


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