Breaking Up: Final Blog Post

I'm sitting amid a pile of boxes and suitcase. In about 20 hours my plane to South Africa flies out from JFK. These are my last hours in New York.

That makes this the last blog post from New Mokum.

I spent my last evening, by chance, in the IHouse Pub with Brian DeBono who I met when I went to the House to sell my old printer.

I spent my last weekend saying goodbye to friends at a farewell dinner, and hanging out with Alyssa in a day of flyering (old printer, anyone?), brunching with St.Ace, Christmas shopping, movie going (Milk - see it!) and a final late-night visit to the amazing jazz and pot atmosphere of St. Nick's Pub which is just around the corner from me on 149th Street, and I left me wishing I'd discovered it sooner.

I spent my last week in a crazy fast-rotate cycle of packing, working on my research project and trying to enjoy the city. Shipped my stuff out of New York on Friday.

At the moment, New York is feeling like one of those relationships where you wake up to the fact of how important it has been when its pretty much over. Actually, I've never had one of those relationships with a person, but I'm sure they exist. But it seems at least I'm having one with a city. So, New York, I'll publish it on the Internet: although I've vilified you constantly, I will 'fess up and say you are an amazing city, harbour some of the best people I've met, and been the scene from one of the happiest and fullest times of my life. It has been an amazing experience. I think I have been in love with you without really knowing it.

Now its time for me to go.

10 Things

... I will miss about New York

1. great people
2. winter sunshine
   
3. shopping for groceries at midnight
4. the subway
5. water water everywhere
6. gothamist architecture
7. ethnic neighbourhoods
   
8. endless variety
   
9. dogs dressed in T-shirts
10. not really being in america
    

And for good balance, here are 10 things I will not miss about New York

1. Duane Reade, and its suppository aisle
2. the subway
3. obese cars
4. times square
5. hipsters in fake glasses
   
6. fast food nation
7. consume consume consume/trash trash trash
   
8. rats
9. tvs in bars, laundromats and taxi cabs
10. really being in america
    

Broadway, Second Act

Made it onto Broadway tonight for my second show, in the company of a tibetan princess. The show was August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. It is the story of a family in Oklahoma which implodes. And no, its not a musical.