Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Month: July 1999

  • Hello from Virginia

    Hello from Virginia. I’m at Larry’s, waiting for him to take a shower so we can go eat. It’s been a cool trip so far, and I’ll need to write up the whole thing at some later point. On Friday, I spent all day at Air and Space, checking out the planes. They have the…

  • Digging through archives

    I’m passively getting ready for my short trip, which begins tomorrow. I usually have these things more planned out than an Apollo space mission, but this time I’m probably going to end up throwing everything in a gym bag before I leave. I haven’t done any research on museums or anything else, so I’ll probably…

  • The blackout

    I haven’t updated for a while, because the shit hit the fan right after my last update on Tuesday the 6th. Where do I start? Okay, on Tuesday, I left the house to eat in an air-conditioned restaurant, ride the AC-equipped subway downtown, and sit in a frigid movie theater, watching movie after movie until…

  • Hot nights in Washington Heights

    Ignore all of my previous statements about how hot it is here – today it is relentlessly motherfucking hot. And it has been for days. Yesterday was a new record high, something like 103 and the humidity was at 99% all day. It didn’t let up much after the sun went down, either. I took…