Allergy season has KILLED ME for the last month! It's been miserable. a few days ago a friend hooked me up with some great under-the-counter medicine, and now i'm feeling normal again. Thank God and Hail Cesar!

I felt so great today that i went out for a bike ride over the bridge, across lower Manhattan, and up and down the lower west side. the parks over there are great. i took a rest out on one of the piers turned into a park. great views of the city, new jersey, and up and down the Hudson... even the statue of liberty. i laid on a wide, curvy bench and people watched and watched the water taxi come and go.

I also rode up to see New York's first Gehry building going up, as pictured to the right. I think it's his first all-glass building as well. at first, from far away, i thought the bottom part-the glass- was a billboard rendering of the building. but no, that's it. Frank's buildings always look great half built, when you can still see all the different layers. but i look forward to see how the curves continue to the top and terminate. From the south side-not this view-the bottom completed portion looks pretty regularized and uninteresting. Perhaps the top gets a bit more funky.