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  • Hazy Days

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    I’ve been feeling a bit un-inspired this week. I would like to blame it on the weather. It has been ultra hot, the last few days. The shot above is looking from my office building, across to Jersey City on Wednesday evening. Super hazy and gross. I kind of wish that I would have had…

  • I want this: Nixon x B-Boys

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    Nixon and the Beastie Boys join hands and give us the “Beastie Boys Time Teller P.” I’m eating up all of the cool stuff that I have been seeing from the Bread and Butter show in Berlin. Pardon all of the puns in the preceding sentences. [via]

  • Fourth of July

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    For the 4th of July, we visited PJ in the morning, then walked across the GW Bridge to NJ, for a picnic at a Revolutionary War site. Above is a shot of Reagan on the GW Bridge, standing beneath the “largest free-flying American flag in the world; 90 feet (27 m) long and 60 feet (18 m) wide, the…

  • Weekend Recap– Saturday

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    I apologize in advance for including so many photos in a single post. After our Saturday morning run, we trekked out to Coney Island. This was our third (and hopefully final) visit to Coney Island this summer. We rode the Wonder Wheel (we do, every time we go to CI). We also did the Cyclone,…

  • 7-3 Running Evaluation

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    This week, I earned a B-. I slept in on Thursday and ended up missing a 4 mile run because I also had to work late. Not only that, but my runs at the beginning of the week were really only half hearted. I didn’t push myself at all. I was just kind of going…

  • Ready for some extended weekend action

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    I’m not sure why it is, but the three-day-weekends always seem to go the quickest, even with the extended time away from work. Even so, I am pretty excited for the upcoming holiday weekend. Since Monday is a bank holiday, the firm is also closed. We are still trying to finagle Reagan’s work situation for…

  • I want this: Mirror+Showerhead

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    I have been using the same ghetto “fogless” shaving mirror, basically since I started shaving as a tween. That mirror and I have been through a lot together. But these days, it is so covered in hard water deposits and scratches, that it barely reflects anymore. The fogless mirror is a pretty amazing invention. Who…

  • This ‘n that

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    Warning: this post contains nothing interesting (not that any of them do, hahahah). But, some good things have happened this week, already, and I just thought that I would feel like an ingrate if I didn’t share them. Here we go with the lists, again. First– I recently sweated my iPod Shuffle to death. So…

  • La Musica Coolica #75 (MD-TK)

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    Two of my favorite rappers on this track. The whole Blackstar collab is pretty hot. Anyway, if you are a fan of Talib Kweli, or Mos Def, then for sure you love this track, also. “Best alliance in hip-hop”– I tend to agree. One of the best, anyway. This is another one of those songs…

  • Happy Monday!

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    Last weekend was one of those times when I could have cloned myself and built a time machine, and still not have been able to get in everything that I wanted to.  Saturday night, I checked out the new Hole Gallery in SoHo. It will eventually be moving to the old Deitch space (above). Check…