Comments on: Bada Bing! Chomping the Big Apple http://writerunboxed.com/2008/08/18/bada-bing-chomping-the-big-apple/ about the craft and business of fiction Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:08:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2008/08/18/bada-bing-chomping-the-big-apple/#comment-81826 Kathleen Bolton Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:50:22 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/08/18/bada-bing-chomping-the-big-apple/#comment-81826 I couldn't go to Ground Zero, thea. Too many ghosts floating around there. Kelleybell, you will love it. There's a ton of stuff to do there that's free, too. One day I hope to do a writer's walking tour...see Poe's house, that sort of thing. I couldn’t go to Ground Zero, thea. Too many ghosts floating around there.

Kelleybell, you will love it. There’s a ton of stuff to do there that’s free, too. One day I hope to do a writer’s walking tour…see Poe’s house, that sort of thing.

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]]> By: Kelleybell http://writerunboxed.com/2008/08/18/bada-bing-chomping-the-big-apple/#comment-81745 Kelleybell Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:09:20 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/08/18/bada-bing-chomping-the-big-apple/#comment-81745 I just finished reading "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert. In the book, Gilbert travels to recapture her sense of self after a divorce. In the process she meets a man who lived in NYC, but was booted out of the country after 911. Together, they sit on a beach in Bali, drawing maps of the city in the sand, sharing all the wonderment of NYC with each other, using sea shells to denote their favorite shops and landmarks. -Sounds divine to me... One day, I shall go. Of all the places on this earth I want to travel to, NYC is a MUST on my list. I just finished reading “Eat Pray Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert. In the book, Gilbert travels to recapture her sense of self after a divorce. In the process she meets a man who lived in NYC, but was booted out of the country after 911.

Together, they sit on a beach in Bali, drawing maps of the city in the sand, sharing all the wonderment of NYC with each other, using sea shells to denote their favorite shops and landmarks.

-Sounds divine to me…

One day, I shall go.

Of all the places on this earth I want to travel to, NYC is a MUST on my list.

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]]> By: Thea http://writerunboxed.com/2008/08/18/bada-bing-chomping-the-big-apple/#comment-81739 Thea Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:15:04 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/08/18/bada-bing-chomping-the-big-apple/#comment-81739 It is possible that in some of my previous lives, I enjoyed the country life. But the truth is, I was born in Manhattan, and I love it. I 'know' the smell of it. Even as dirty as it can be, I understand why people love NYC. A week after 9/11, my brother and my sister and I met in NY and went down to where the World Trade Center was, now just a burning mass of charred metal being bulldozed into submission. It snowed a gray confetti and the air was thick with a white, pungent smoke. As horrid as all those deaths were, the city escaped the gruesome sight of bloodied bodies. But it didn't escape the whispy ghosts clinging to what they remembered. Walking the streets north, we could hear the bagpipes from afar until we came upon one of many NYFD funerals. And I remember thinking that dammit, they bombed MY city. It is possible that in some of my previous lives, I enjoyed the country life. But the truth is, I was born in Manhattan, and I love it. I ‘know’ the smell of it. Even as dirty as it can be, I understand why people love NYC. A week after 9/11, my brother and my sister and I met in NY and went down to where the World Trade Center was, now just a burning mass of charred metal being bulldozed into submission. It snowed a gray confetti and the air was thick with a white, pungent smoke. As horrid as all those deaths were, the city escaped the gruesome sight of bloodied bodies. But it didn’t escape the whispy ghosts clinging to what they remembered. Walking the streets north, we could hear the bagpipes from afar until we came upon one of many NYFD funerals. And I remember thinking that dammit, they bombed MY city.

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