The good thing about our modern era is that technology like Google Street View lets me be places where I otherwise cannot be. Or at least lets me feel like I am there. Here is where I actually am (though picture is three years outdated, and the building is now yellow and sans graffiti and there’s snow on the ground):

Relatedly, I hear it’s creepily warm in the States. Rest assured, it is normal February freezing temperatures here. I am off now to open a bank account and buy a prepaid phone.

WORD TO THE WISE: even if you’re off contract and successfully manage to jailbreak your 5.0.1 iphone, it will NOT unlock even with ultrasn0w and Sam configured if your model firmware is 05.16.05. So don’t waste three days trying to do it! Ugh.

I love modern telecommunication. And yes, those are identical t-shirts.

Fortunately, I have seem to have fixed the blog, although its design is different now. Meanwhile, some purposely vague life updates, in no particular order:

• I leave for Germany in 5 weeks
• I am completely unprepared for this
• The paperwork it requires is more daunting than, well, other things that require equal amounts of paperwork and should be equally daunting to me right now
• I’m trying not to feel really overwhelmed
• New York City is great
• Merry Christmas

However, nobody’s perfect. Did you know he has a 33-year-old so-called “illegitimate” daughter whom he initially didn’t acknowledge, and who grew up with her mother and really struggled but ended up ok and went to a top school in Boston and became a writer and moved to Europe? Wow, this is all sounding EERILY familiar…

I want to find her in Europe and start a company. We will be known as “The Artists Formerly Known As Illegitimate” and our corporate logo will be something like a fist in the area with some ovaries in the background. Bring it!