Don;t you miss it don't you miss it some of you people just about missed it

Alors, I'm posting mostly because I want to move yesterday's post out of the limelight. I was fatigued. Two guesses. (clue: and my back hurt.)

New York is a place that has a meaning of its own, unlike Pennigton, New Jersey. Like, in Pennington the people who live there don't really know if that's Abbey Rd. like the girl's name Abbie, or if it's A-B like the first two letters of the alphabet. If someone was calling me on my cell coming to rescue me by car from some kind of Christmas day dramatics at the homestead for example, and she said she was lost on Abbey and said it one way or another, I'd still tell her... "See that elementary school up ahead? Turn right." By contrast, if my brother called to tell me he was bleeding out his eyes on Houston Street and pronounced it like the city in Texas, I'd surely go "HOUSE-TON! What's wrong with you!?!?!"

You fair correspondent here has been implicated by others from time to time of some kind of falling prey to something when it comes to New York... that's how the accusers make it sound. And all your fair correspondant said was, "New York is the only city." What?

Overall I guess I just want to say haters are jealous, whatever they say. Not envious. They may not actually want to live here. They may actually like what they've got where they are. In fact I assume they do. But when people "just don't see it" they're right and that makes them oblivious to something to be seen. New york is 8 million people in a relatively small space at a time. So when you're here, you're coexisting with a section of 8 million people all the time. Some of them could mug you, because out of 8 million, some certain number are desperate muggers. Some of them will glare at you because they are having a very frustrating day. Most of the people you see every day are on their way somewhere. And even people who live here and have for years look up in the street when there's something really cool to draw their eye there. But the reason they mostly don't look up is because they have to do something today and they don't want to fall and you've got to know what's happening south of the knees.

Anyway, trying to co-exist is one of the most interesting things people can do, in my view. It's interesting in cases of cohabitation (but let's not forget incredibly stifling sometimes) and it's interesting on the large scale too. New Yorkers are hyper-stimulated. But they're not here for the glamour; this accusation is so silly because who do you think would be the first to notice that it's far from glamorous in the day to day --- you know, duh, the day to day residents. It's hustle that's glamorous to people but you've got to get the chicken and egg thing right there. Scale makes the hustle, the hustle reinforces the scale. Escaping the hustle has cache too... I mean even languishing in New York takes on a little special something becasue New York's outside the window. I didn't make the rules about all this.

XOXOX
Alexis