Girls are getting into abstract analysis

My local coffee shop is staffed mainly by women, which is something I hadn't consciously noticed until the other morning when the shop's two male employees happened to be staffing the place alone, absent XX chromosomes.

As I swung open the front door, I was greeted with ...I was cut from her belly with a Stanley knife, my daddy did a jig with the drunk midwife...

In the morning, it's usually Cat Power or something similarly feminine, like Donovan.

But Nick Cave at 8:15 in the morning? That's all boy. I was surprised that the two of them weren't wearing their underwear on their head and taking turns as knife-throwing targets.

Speaking of the neighborhood, I've been following the story of the impending development of the Schwartz Chemical Building with considerable interest:

Schwimmer said he plans to spend "roughly $100 million" to turn the property from a ruins to a jewel....The borough president is glad that there is a development plan for that very unique building," said Dan Andrews, a spokesman for Borough President Helen Marshall. "We are always in the market for new housing..."It will be interesting to see what they intend to do with the smokestacks."

Whatever. It's going to cost so much to clean the site up--lead, asbestos, unidentified leaking drums of sundry chemicals--that I have a hard time believing there's enough money in the western world to finance this project. But let these fuckers sink their money into it. Let it be their Hindenburg.

*This weather is getting to me.