Tommy Karr

Category: Life

  • “March” Madness at NYC Pride

    W Hotels offered some eye-candy as they floated down the street. Today was the NYC Pride March, part of Heritage of Pride (HOP). It’s pretty amazing what a group of strong willed folks can do when they band together to celebrate freedom of expression. From Dykes on Bike-Cycles to Flaggots, from Macy’s to the Gay…

  • You must take the A Train – Discovering NY Transit History

    Today was spent exploring the New York Transit Museum and it was UH-MAZING!  If you’ve never been just head to downtown Brooklyn and look for the subway entrance that’s not a subway entrance (see image). Climb down these steps and into what was once part of the Court Street subway station.    Below the street is…

  • Art Isn’t Easy

    Portrait, Goldie Hawn, 1996 I accidentally (and to my horror) left a collection of my own artwork in Alabama when I moved to NYC two years ago.  But my friend Lynn was good enough to send it to me (although I realized the other day that one painting is still in a closet at the University… gotta…

  • Terror at the Theatre (or Swings with Wings – thanks Ash!)

    In the 1999-2000 season, I was cast as a swing in Tapestry: a Review Based on the Music of Carole King at the Clarence Brown Theatre back home in Knoxville, Tennessee.  My female swing-counterpart was one of my best friends, Ashley. I’m not sure if you’ve ever been a swing before but they are typically…

  • How Time Warner Cable is Like Flan

    Let me clarify first by stating emphatically that I detest flan.  It is somewhat fluffy and looks like it would be wonderful… then when you get your own and taste it you feel a little slimy and a lot unfulfilled. That is precisely my experience with Time Warner Cable. Our bill came in yesterday and,…

  • Take the A** Train

    I am all for comfort and one’s ability to enjoy his or her conveyance from point A to point B.  But, when your comfort impedes mine, I get a little perturbed. Today I enjoyed a short day at the office (thank you Good Friday) and then a great meal with friends at the Rocking Horse Cafe in…

  • A Pain in the Neck

    For two weeks now I’ve had this sinus condition that the doctor swears is just allergies.  Lovely… allergies.  So, on her suggestions, I’ve been taking Claritin D, Benedryl and a small amount of Amoxicillin.  However, now I am suffering a RAGING sore throat.   Take a journey with me, imagining a rough stone, maybe spiky, slowly squeezing…

  • Free Cones and Allergies

    Today is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s… but alas, the nearest Ben & Jerry’s to my office is in Macy’s and it is not participating.  Rude.  And here I was ready to welcome in Spring (which was here in the city for one day this weekend and then it went on sabbatical) with an…

  • Yes, Monterey, there is a Santa Claus

    Mervyn’s Department Store, Monterey, California… 1990. My dad had taken my brothers and I to the mall to pick up some gifts for our mom for Christmas. We’d stopped by customer service, for either gift wrap or package pick-up, and while my dad spoke to the clerk at the counter my brothers and I were…

  • The Day I Got Accosted on the A Train

    It was bound to happen eventually. I got accosted on the subway today by this big, lumbering guy who was not 100% with his senses. Meth, crack, or some other unfortunate issue plagued him and somehow made him into the world’s friendliest weirdo. With iPhone playing, headphones on and a wicked game of Scrabble going…