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Heaven in Hell's Kitchen
Welcome to Heaven in Hell's Kitchen! I publish my e-zine bi-weekly. I hope you'll come back to see how the site cleans up over time. I could go out and buy a blog, but for me half the fun is building it myself. Later, I'll tell you how I did it (in a separate part, in case you want to skip the technical bits).
In the Beginning
Before life in Hell's Kitchen, life was just hell. Well, not really. Astoria isn't exactly hell, but I stayed too long.
I came to New York in 1990 to work as a musician. I set up digs in Astoria, and it was a great place to start out. It was cheap, and getting into town was easy. Lots of musicians lived there.
From Stepping Stone to Mill Stone
By the year 2000 I'd long stopped kidding myself that Astoria was a "stepping stone". I'd had a great time working in show business for a decade, but now I had gone as far as I wanted to go with that.
The Turn of the Century
I was now an IT consultant with Deloitte. Two weeks into my new job, I was a little late to work. Read the email I transmitted after 911. I don't complain about late trains anymore.
Later, I went to my girlfriend's apartment to shower pulverized World Trade Center off me.
I never went home after that. Good-bye, Astoria.
I like my life.