2 posts tagged “administrivia”

Every month, I will select a book about New York that I think New Yorkests should read. Just like events, you can recommend books for consideration. (I will choose some, but not all, titles recommended.)

After several weeks, having read the book, I will post a review in this blog. I then encourage you to leave a comment including your opinions about and insights on the book -- or linking to your own blog entry elsewhere reviewing the same book. We can then comment on each others comments and blog posts in a distributed book group discussion of sorts. And if it takes off, we could even meet in person.

For the month of July, already more than half passed, the New Yorkest Book Club selection is Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York. I have already finished the book. Zoinks! By the end of next week, I will post a review, and despite the short notice, we can see how things go.

I hope they go swimmingly.

Every so often, I will post about upcoming events in New York City that I think are promising and worth promoting. If you want me to consider an event for possible mention, feel free to let me know about it via my Vox email link. (That doesn't mean that this is an eventblog. Many days could pass without the New Yorkest highlighting an event. New Yorkests -- readers -- can and should still tell me about events.)

I will feature events I think are worth going to, events I plan to go to, events I don't intend to go to, events I would never -- ever -- go to (not in a million years), events friends are organizing, events friends are involved in, and events I am involved in -- or organizing.

Furthermore, I will also go to some, but not all, of the events mentioned. (For example, I did not go to this event even though I fully intended to.) I will go to some events I don't mention. And I may not post about an event after the fact, even if I went to or participated in it. Then again, I just might.

In short, these are cool events -- but I can't promise a mention, before or after, regardless of whether I, in fact, go.

This is part of being a New Yorker, I believe. There is so much going on in this city. As important as it is to partake of as many opportunities as possible, it is also important to merely have many opportunities. To paraphrase the band Rush, "If you choose not to participate, you still have made a choice." I could have gone. I decided not to.

You can -- and should -- choose to go to the events I mention. Or not.

You, after all, are a New Yorkest.