I’ve been in the book business, mostly with indies, for about 10 years now, so I’m of the mind that every shop has its reasons for visiting, no question!

Thank you very much for all the info, I appreciate it so much!

So much helpful info, particularly for walking around and public transit, which is how I’ll be getting around most of the time, I’m sure, so thank you! I definitely would love to check out the NYPL.

Thank you so much for both! Frankly, the main indulgences I can really imagine spending any time or money on are going to be books and food (as I said to another responder to my comment, who was frankly pretty dickish, I’m not interested in doing much as a tourist). Thank you especially for the bookshop…

Well, for starters, I don’t plan to spend much, and am not much of a gregarious person in the things that I do wherever I go, so it’s not like I’m even looking to do much as a “tourist.” My main reasons for going are, again, (a) visiting/staying with a friend who lives in Manhattan, who I’ve wanted to see again for yea…

Wow. I mean, holy shit. That’s a $1,200 phone?

No apologies necessary!

This is so helpful, thank you! I’m still hoping to ideally just stay with my friend, and I know most hotel options will be out of my price range anyway, but I’ll look into it!

Firstly, thank you! I was really hoping I’d get at least a response or two!

Oh god, that does not surprise me at all. I’m also 99% sure they don’t do jack about it. (One of the things I hated the most about OKCupid — and that’s the platform I’ve tried that I hate the most, by FAR; you couldn’t pay me to ever use it again — was that, when you did report someone for sending wildly abusive shit…

He seems to be on a mission to make anyone with decent taste in music hate him, and I welcome people to the party. You’re very late, but it’s fine.

Chin up. I’m 99% sure that none of them are any good, tbh.

I’m totally over it, too. I was born and raised in SoCal, so it’s not like I’m not used to periods of drought, but I also run hot (i.e. my core body temp is notably higher than the 98.6 average), so I’m already always warm, so this is like a portion of my own personal hell. I also like and really miss the seasonal…

I’ve recently relaxed my feelings on this whole issue a LOT — just because my main neuroses and problems all stem from anxiety, and allowing myself all that head room to be taken up with worrying about it wreaks HELL on that particular problem — mostly out of necessity than anything, accepted that more people tend to…

I was finally able to file just a single W2 on my taxes, for the first time in years! (It’s been a long time since I haven’t needed either a second job, or some freelance work on the side — both of which totally fuck you on taxes — to get by.) That means I finally get another decent-sized return, which I also haven’t…

So, thanks to a decent tax return, and being able to (finally, for a change) afford to save some and actually use some for fun, rather than bills immediately devouring all of it... I’m looking to plan a trip to New York in late April! I’ve been working my ass off (usually at two jobs; this past year was the first in…

Prince hated this idiot, so the Paisley Park thing and the Super Bowl hologram thing are even worse, apart from just being tacky and gross. He needs a serious ass kicking at this point.

Are you me? Come sit over here by me, we can hate him together.

Oh, for FUCK’S sake.

I’ve been deeply unsatisfied, if not filled with outright loathing, by everything ever related to Justin Timberlake up to this point, so, I mean... nothing new!