Category: AIA Archive

So I was visiting my Grandma and walked by this line in front of a shop in Union Square. The line went out the door and around the corner. It wasn’t for concert tickets or a autograph signing. It was for a video game: Grand Theft Auto 4. This is one of the first times…

Well it’s over. Thank goodness because I have never been so frik’n tired of an election. With all the mud slinging and vitrol on both sides, it’s convinced me to and G to go 3rd party this election. When we voted yesterday morning and the lines were out the door at our polling place. Oddly,…

For those of you who don’t recognize the photo next to John Edwards, that’s Sam Neil playing Damien in Omen 3. Giselle and I are recovering from a cold. Well actually G’s recovered, and I’m recovering from the cold I caught from G. Which got me thinking about this whole flu-shot scare because G’s mom…

This Saturday Giselle and I went to see Puffy. Not “P. Diddy”, but a J-Pop band called PuffyAmiYumi that are super cute and fun. They do the theme song to the “Teen Titans” animated series on Cartoon Network. And will soon become an animated series themselves. The great thing about J-Pop is that you can’t…

I’m a bit swamped because Y&R has helping the Madrid office on pitch (unfortunately it’s being coordinated here so no trips to Spain for me). I did make time to watch the new Star Wars trilogy on DVD. Or at least Episode 4 and the long-ass documentary and shorts that came on the bonus DVD.…

Beer was flowing aplenty this Saturday at the Von Steuben Day celebrations at Central Park to celebrate the start of Oktoberfest. Von Steuben, I was reminded, was a German soldier hired by Congress during the Revolutionary War to train Washington’s volunteer soldiers and turn it into a disciplined professional army. Remnants of hurricane Ivan made…

Giselle and I have just gotten back from a trip to Cozumel with our friends Kerry and Graham. Me and Graham spent much of the time scuba diving, while G and Kerry were on the beach. On Labor day we drove into the Yucatan to the ancient Mayan city of Chichen-Itza. I’ve posted pix and…