Aren’t those T-Mobile ads with Catherine Zeta Jones spooky? You can totally tell she’s just blue-screened in with footage of other people. I almost spit out my drink last night when a new T-Mobile ad played during the West Wing last night and ended with Zeta Jones actually reaching out and touching the people in the same frame as her. They’ve either improved the technology of pasting her into the commercial or they realized we’ve gotten hip to their cost-cutting maneuvers.

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Back when everyone was linking to the Amazon Yellow Pages’ new “block view” photo feature and Mikel Maron’s Run up and down the street page, I sat on the links because I wanted to blog something specific which wasn’t official yet.

I’m happy to finally announce that I’ll be moving this summer from the Financial District to West 8th Street to manage another New School residence hall, Marlton House (a famous former flop-house where Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce, Lillian Gish, and Ecuadoran President Galo Plaza all lived). I’m giving up a larger apartment and an in-house laundry room, but I’ll be in the heart of Greenwich Village and around the corner from both the Arch in Washington Square Park and the Duplex.

So, here’s what my new street looks like.

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I stopped by the recently-opened Jamba Juice at Union Square today and picked up a “Cranberry Craze.” It was so sugary I thought I was going to have a diabetic reaction.

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