by Shane McAdams | Jun 12, 2012 | Blog
My father in-law drove me to the Milwaukee airport a few weeks ago on the Wednesday before Memorial Day. I’d never seen so much activity at Mitchell International Airport. Typically, at 7 PM on a Wednesday, it feels like a private airstrip. This time it felt like,...
by Shane McAdams | May 28, 2012 | Blog
* The country of Iceland is smaller (pop. 317,398) than Wichita, Kansas (pop. 382,368), but I can name dozens of Icelanders making avant-garde art and music and can’t name one from the entire state of Kansas (pop. 2,871,238). I fear the culturati in New York often...
by Shane McAdams | May 14, 2012 | Blog
When I was young my dad used to school me at Trivial Pursuit every time we played. I went on thinking he was a singular genius for a couple of decades. My reverence flagged only when I realized all the questions in the game were written by baby boomers; the...
by Shane McAdams | Apr 3, 2012 | Blog
I just heard another New York peer round up to the decade when asked how long he’d been in New York. His first response was an efficient, “Ten years,†and then went on to say he moved to New York City in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It was probably an...
by Shane McAdams | Mar 19, 2012 | Blog
After a decade in New York City, I saw my first undomesticated roadkill yesterday. That is, unless it was a pet raccoon. I tried to take a picture of it as I passed it and nearly caused a pileup on the BQE, so just take my word for it. I spent the entire traffic jam...
