‘Cause Crazy People on the Subway Have Their Own Movies
Remember the crazy guy on the train? (see September 16th)…well, come to find out, he’s my first real NYC celebrity sighting! I think I’m in love with you, Rev. Billy.
Why I love NY, Part 1: Crazy People on the Subway
I love Election week and local Green Party politicians that advertise on the L train:
Scenes from the Powers Home
Emily cooks
Johnny Four Paws
One of the Powers Girls - Pei, a fashion designer whose clothes I covet
this cactus was a gift to Emily from one of her suitors...whatcha think he was insinuating?
The Powers Home for Orphaned and Wayward Girls
Emily (see Emily Goes Postal) has lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for a long time. I mean, before it was even cool. Now the ‘Burg is hipster central…and yeah, there are people who spend way too much time putting together artfully disheveled thrift store ensembles that (if done correctly) look like they found them in a dumpster (and sometimes they do). But there are lots of cool people here – artists, writers, musicians, intellectuals, wannabe intellectuals… crackheads, whores, bums…basically, all the people I love. In fact, it’s much more like the Hollyhood than New Yorkers would probably like to admit.
Emily (who goes by Emo – pronounced ‘eh-mo’) lives on Powers Street. Her apartment is run by the famous Mrs. Mayanne Mancini. Just like Melrose Place on Crack, Emily’s apartment building has an ever-changing cast of characters. She has had more roommates than she can even remember. Even Margaret (see Trio of Tricks) once lived here. Just like Melrose Place on Crack, people crash here until they make it big and move to Manhattan, or buy a house in suburbia, or marry British royalty (yea, it happened to a former roommate) or run out of money and go home to crash with their parents. And since all Emo’s roommates have been chicks, this establishment has been coined (thank you Margaret) -
THE POWERS STREET HOME FOR ORPHANED AND WAYWARD GIRLS
Welcome to The City
So, I gotta leave the Hollyhood. I know. I’m sad too. I have to relocate for a ghostwriting project which I can’t talk about until it is finalized. But I will say this…I was destined to work on this project (my agent made me take that out of the book proposal…he said the word destined scares publishers…but I can say it on my blog, right?)
So I have to leave the California …which is sad, because I’ll miss the Hollyhood. But here’s the good news…I’m going to have a whole new set of adventures and freaky encounters to tell you about!
WELCOME TO THE CITY
(and it ain’t gonna be anything like that show on MTV)
