On August 26, 2012 I drove to Manhattan for the first time without a planned ride home. In my new backyard (Washington Square Park) I introduced myself to Colin Huggins at 8:53am, and at 11:36pm came back to find a cellist playing by moonlight in the middle of the park fountain platform six inches above the waterline, the jetstream for the night turned off.
August 27, 2012 was rainy. I skipped some NYU orientation events to watch a filmshoot, walked to Madison Square Park, and bought my first groceries at the Union Square Whole Foods and carried them home. It (the Whole Foods) is (last I checked) still the midst of an oddly ever-coming-soon renovation and now a miniature Amazon Fulfillment Center, but¹ still has an escalator exclusively for shopping carts and will not be truly dead to me until that’s gone. However the smoke which used to bellow from the hole in Metronome has stopped bellowing, and Metronome‘s periodicity has changed from 48 hours to 1 geological era. It’s the second time it’s been reprogrammed, the first being to New York’s successful bid to not host the Olympics.
I have it on the advice of my mentor and at least three other strangers I’ve asked at bars in the intervening decade that I may call myself a New Yorker with no reasonable objection starting tomorrow.
¶. Every Last Monday: Open VCR Night
Formerly held on the Nth Monday of every month and famously profiled by Group Nine Media Incorporated subsidiary Thrillist Media Group, OVCRN now has a well-defined input condition of N == last, with the next iteration being this Monday, 7:00pm – 10:00pm sharp at Wonderville in Brooklyn.
Now that it’s calendrically forecastable, Open VCR Night may not always appear in Geistlist. If you would like to be reminded, most calendar processing applications support this up to 730 repetitions, so I encourage you to add them. 3 of the next 730 iterations are confirmed, the rest forecasted.
It is also livestreamed each time. Commentary by FORT90. Twitch chat is powerless.
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