Street Scene


So I'm standing outside my office building at one am (that's around 5pm, me standard time) smoking a cigarette, and this woman comes up to me. It's worth noting, in her defense, that she was entirely trashed.

"There a bar in there?"

I turn around and look at the building, wondering how on earth it could be mistaken for a bar - huge glass windows, well lit, banks of elevators and a security guard, and a huge gilded sign that says "New York Law Journal" (one of the building's previous tenants) above the door. In our neighborhood, it stands out like Rockefeller Center does in midtown.

What do you say to that?

"I wish" was about as good as I could come up with at the time.