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<\/p>\nLast Wednesday Cagle and her friend Erin came from Alabama to visit for three days.<\/p>\n
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We wandered around the Big Apple and hit a lot of cool shops in
\nGreenwich Village, where I snagged some good vinyl and a really cheap
\nhardcover
\ncopy of Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixon<\/i> to add to my to-read list.<\/p>\n
I found this picture on the wall at Famiglia’s Pizza, a nice New York pizza joint. My brother will appreciate it.<\/p>\n
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Tucker, Cagle, Erin, and I went to Jacques Torres’s chocolatier<\/a> in Brooklyn for my third time. I found these chocolate sculptures in the back room:<\/p>\n We walked back over the Brooklyn Bridge, for my fourth time. I We ran into a b-boy posse breakdancing for the crowd later that day.<\/p>\n The next day we ran into a large group of firefighters and police We ate at a nice little Greek restaurant in the Village, and I ordered On Saturday after the two girls left Tucker, Mara, and I went kayaking The journey offered a wonderful view of Manhattan, dominated in this particular area by a series of Trump condominium buildings.<\/p>\n Dan drove down from Boston later that day and stayed the night. On the way back from work on Monday, Tucker and I ran into a strange sight:<\/p>\n Sorry for the gruesome imagery, but whatever got to this bird left the Today Tucker, Mara, and I ate at an Afghanistan restaurant. I After putting in a little more work on the synth, Mara and I watched a I highly recommend the 9\/11 Commission Report for anyone who wants a Last Wednesday Cagle and her friend Erin came from Alabama to visit for three days. We wandered around the Big Apple and hit a lot of cool shops in Greenwich Village, where I snagged some good vinyl and a really cheap hardcover copy of Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixon to add to my to-read list. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/chocolate_sculptures.jpg\")
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\nfound this spray-painted into the concrete of the bridge walkway.
\nI hate it when people spray paint messages on stuff using
\nstencils. It’s tacky and rude, but at least in this particular
\ncase it supports my political cause, albeit to an extreme.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/osama_votes_kerry.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/breakdancers.jpg\")
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\nunexplainedly axing their way into a Borders bookstore which otherwise
\nseemed fine.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/firefighters.jpg\")
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\npastichio, a traditional Greek dish that my mother and grandmother make
\nevery once in a while since my grandfather has full Greek blood.
\nThe pastichio was excellent, the salad was wonderful in its feta glory,
\nand the baklava was just what I like, proving that I do indeed have
\nGreek blood running in my veins.<\/p>\n
\nin the Hudson River. If you go to the end of Riverside Park by
\n72nd Street, they have a little platform set up where you can hop on a
\nkayak for free for up to 20 minutes, or up to 2 hours on Fridays.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/kayaking.jpg\")
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\nWe ran around town some more and ended up in Hoboken, NJ, for my final
\ntrip to visit Emily at Stevens. Dan grabbed some of my belongings
\nto help me in my upcoming move to Boston for the weekend before my
\nflight home next Wednesday.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/bird_remains.jpg\")
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\nwings and only the wings entirely intact. Very strange.<\/p>\n
\nloved it! I didn’t expect to, since I had nothing to base
\nexpectations on. I am now convinced that orange rind should be
\nput into every dish.<\/p>\n
\nbootleg copy of Fahrenheit 9\/11, which I found to be suprisingly devoid
\nof any real argument or fresh, important details about its title
\ndisaster.<\/p>\n
\nserious look into the reality of the situation. You can grab a
\nrecording of an executive summary free on iTunes right now. I
\nmuch prefer to read it, however, and want to buy a copy sometime
\nsoon. It’s now on my Amazon wish list<\/a>. Go be curious and poke around on it if you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"