This is your Taco PSA: TACOWAY BEACH is opening early for the summer! As of today, the best fish tacos period are just a train ride and a beach away. GET IT?? 302 Beach 87th street (out back of the Surf Club) Rockaway Beach NY 11693
People seem to fall into one of three categories, being obsessed with either Time, Money or Power. Let's call power power/fame but not take it any further. I myself suffer a Time obsession. I know exactly how many minutes it takes me to commute (27 to job by bike with lockup), how long it takes to go from asleep to shoes-on-out-the-door (18-22 minutes, depending on the previous night's activities) and suffer a nagging suspicion that the credit card bill I just paid last week is due again any day now... My mom explained to me that she was scared (scarred?) into promptness by an emphatic french horn teacher who instilled in her high school band that "to be five minutes early is to be on time,
Since arriving back in New York, I have been asked by pretty much everybody if/when I am moving to Austin (including myself). I practically walked off the plane rehearsing the "Why We Should Live in Warmer Climes Soon" speech I would repeat upon entering my apartment. And then New York did this super nice, totally typical, please, baby baby, please thing that it always does when you threaten to leave: it turned on the sunshine, turned up the heat, and threw a rejuvenating road trip upstate to some magical hiking trails right in my lap. Sucked Right Back In. Naw, it's not always so easy to stay here. I am prone to opening up the Let's Change Everything valve full blast when I see a new way of
Over the last three years, a small vortex has appeared in Austin, steadily swirling away my closest NY friends one by one. It started w my adventuretime, ray of sunshine, cinematographer bestie and ended with.. I don't think it has ended yet. I'm slated to lose another one by the end of the year! After three years of copious pictures of natural swimming holes and taco trucks on every corner, I finally booked my ticket to visit. Carefully avoiding music fest pandemonium times, I spent the last week in this sunshine-on-full-blast treasure town of Austin, TX. Not that Austin needs anyone to pay it another lick of lip service, with a population surging from 790,000 in 2010 possibly reaching 3.2
To the amusement of my sweetheart, I have never enjoyed a meal, drink or checked in for a flight without wondering how I could start working for the bar/restaurant/airline/popsicle stand that was responsible for it. As a result of having worked for so many small business owners, I am perpetually evaluating the points of service, interior design and general workflow that make a place function. I love watching businesses work! I am shocked by the ways people run their businesses and even more so by the number of people who assume they will be good at running one. Revisiting the notebooks and diaries I have kept since high school, a veritable business plan library awaits ranging from coffee sho