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Central Park Is Creepy at Night

by Blake on September 21, 2009

Since CJ was born, Beezus has been getting less of our attention. Our vet told us she could stand to lose few pounds, so we’ve started taking her off-leash in Central Park to let her run around.

Off-leash hours in all New York City parks are from 9pm-9am, and there are few things in her life [...]

New York Dog

by Blake on April 24, 2009

“Is that Beezus?”
It was a cold January night. I had my collar up and my hat down, and was trying to convince my dog to pee. This is more challenging than it sounds, as my dog had recently started doing the fakey: she squats as if she is going to pee, and then changes [...]

Life in a New City

by Blake on September 16, 2007

We lived together in Brooklyn for about two weeks, but before I came out, I told S that if I was going to live in New York, I wanted to live in Manhattan, and she found a small apartment on the Upper West Side. The first weekend of November, my 14 boxes arrived, and S [...]

Moving to New York City

by Blake on September 14, 2007

When I was a kid, around 10 years old, and living in Portland, my mother had a co-worker who would join us for dinner every couple of weeks. Mark was, at the time, a youngish man who had some interesting ideas about life. One of the things I remember him saying was that everyone should [...]