Thanks to an NPR article, I discovered 7 Minutes in Heaven with Mike O’Brien, where SNL writer Mike O’Brien interviews celebrities in a closet, and then at the end goes in for a kiss. It’s the perfect little pick-me-up when you need a mini break or a laugh. This one is my favorite, but they’re all worth watching.
Boston terrier graffiti, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
(edited to add: graffiti is hard to spell.)
Inevitably, in every apartment, little things start going wrong as soon as you move in. In Chicago, we had mice. They popped out of the burners on the stove and peered out at us in curiosity. When we started smelling a little extra gas smell after the stove was turned off, we called the management company to complain about mice messing with the gas pipes on the stove. Some dude showed up, looked around at our stove, and then told us there was no problem. He left us a copy of the incident report from the management company. RESIDENT BELIEVES MICE ARE CHEWING ON WIRES INSIDE STOVE, it said. Thanks for all your help. And for making us feel like we are completely crazy.
My apartment now, in comparison to all of the others in which I’ve lived, has had very few problems. Until the heat came on, that is.
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