Snow Makes New Yorkers Happy

Moby’s commentary on the in Manhattan: “it’s been said a million times, but there really isn’t a better place to be in a than manhattan. a in the suburbs means that you’re stranded. a in manhattan means that you put on your warm boots and clothes and wander around and see other people in boots and warm clothes (and occassionally cross-country skis) and if you’re hungry you go walk through the snow to a restaurant and if you’re movie-ing you walk through the snow to see a movie and etc.

and when it snows in manhattan you only encounter people at their best.

people borrowing shovels and laughing as they fall into urban snow banks and smiling at each other as they pass on the street, in a quiet sort of communion that basically says, ‘isn’t this amazing?’

only a few cars are out and about. and a few intrepid yuppies are parading in their suv’s feeling even more like masters of the universe until their suv’s get bogged down in a snow-bank and they have to call a tow-truck so that they can resume their master-of-the-universe-ing.”

Right on, Moby, I couldn’t agree more. We had so much fun yesterday “playing” in the snow with our our fellow New Yorkers. Of course today, we’re back to business. No eye contact and no talking to others on the street. It’s strictly forbidden.