Since last week lacked in updates but not in events, I figured I’d post some of what’s been going on:
The Big Apple: Thanks to the successful rollout, I get two days off so Jake and I decided to use this time to take a long weekend in New York. We haven’t been back there since we moved out last April so I can’t tell you how excited I am to be going back to the city I love and to see the friend I miss so dearly. I will also make sure to take a ton of pictures and eat bagels while I am there.
This is talent: Dan Schwartz’s photographs in the last issue of 28mm are some of the most creative I’ve ever seen. I keep going back every day to look at them again and again. There’s something about those colors that pulls me in each time.
Driving: I’ve finally managed to drive to work all by myself Monday morning for the first time. For those of you who’ve been following my ineptitude with cars, you know this is a huge achievement for me. I am hoping it’s a sign that I might eventually be able to drive though I might have to move back to the loving arms of New York just to never drive again.
Turkish Food: Thanks to an article in the San Diego Reader, we found a small cafe in Mission Beach that serves a few Turkish dishes. If you’re into Turkish food, check out Olives. It’s on 805 Santa Clara Place, Mission Beach. If you know of any Turkish restaurants in the San Diego area, please please let me know.
Which weekend are you guys gonne be in The Big Apple!?!?
Congrats on your accomplishment of driving the car!!! š
we’re coming in two weeks. i was hoping to come down to work and visit you. you’re still in the same building? š
Any updates on why the big apple is called the big apple? š
yep yep:
ccording to the Museum of the City of New York, the phrase “big apple” was first used by Martin Wayfarer to describe New York City in 1909. He used it in a metaphor describing how New York, “the big apple,” gets a disproportionate share of the sap from the country’s tree of wealth which is rooted in the Mississippi Valley.
The saying evolved in the 1920s when New York Morning Telegraph sports writer John J. FitzGerald overheard African American stable workers using the phrase while talking about New York’s racing scene, which was considered “the big time.” Fitzgerald liked it so much he named his racing column “Around the Big Apple.”
Jazz musicians in the 1930s and 40s made it more popular by using it in the same way, referring to the New York jazz scene as “the big time.”
The phrase somewhat disappeared for the next two decades before the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau used a red apple during its campaign to increase tourism in the 1970s. Since then the apple has become an international symbol for New York City and the phrase, its unofficial nickname.
of course that is supposed to say “According to….” and to be fair, the source is: kai’s weblog. what can I say? google loves me š
another from the afternoon at cynthia’s house. she has a collection of birdhouses so there will be a few more birdhouse pics coming up š