My ads

so it is very freaky to be walking by Central Park South and see your face on a bus as it drives by. My Microsoft ad has made it to buses in Chiacgo and New York.

It is also in New Yorker, Times and Forbes magazine.

well, that's one way to make it into Forbes.

a compass!

After 3 years of living in Astoria, I have discovered there is a brass compass in the sidewalk by the little Athens Square Park I pass several times a day. Very handy indeed!

My neighbor DMH, who has lived here for 9 years, says she never knew about it either.

Go mouse, go!

I was crossing the street at 5th and E 40th to go to the NY Public Library when I noticed the crowd walking really strangely and looking down at their feet. A cute little mouse was also trying to cross the street no one wanted to step on it or get near it. The mouse ran under a slowly-moving car trying to turn the corner. Everyone gasped, then sighed with relief as the mouse emerged unharmed. Then they all resumed trying to get away from it as it made its way onto the sidewalk.

Walking the bird

At 2 p, at Columbus and W 72nd Street, outside a typically chi-chi residence, I saw a woman walking a huge red macaw on a branch as the doorman smiled.