Morning commute notesAUG 05 2004

How can someone smell so much like garlic at 8:30 in the morning? Are there garlic breakfast foods that I don't know about?

Walked past another NYPD flash mob in Times Square. Deterring terrorists these days involves standing around drinking coffee. How about a little gunfire and random beatings? Now *that's* intimidation.

Standing on his tippy toes had two benefits for the young man on Broadway: 1) he could see whichever famous person was doing Good Morning America this morning; and 2) passersby could see more clearly the red stripes on the soles of his Prada shoes, identifying him as a person of impeccable taste.