This totally happened. My Mom says Kubrick would call the house at like 1 or 2 am while my Dad was shooting and she’d be like I’m just here w the toddler and he would get done talking to her for an hr and then talk to me for a while. Legend.
Check out the Park's newest visitor — a beaver! 🦫 Recently seen swimming around Gansevoort Peninsula, this beaver marks the first recorded sighting in our 400-acre Estuarine Sanctuary! Though a rare sight in NYC, beavers are native to our local waterways.
📹: Sophia Tulp
Imagine depositing your $750 paycheck here in 1988 knowing it will cover your mortgage, groceries, bills, and your upcoming vacation, with still some left over to save
In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.
I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.
"Nobunaga."
He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.
"Perfect. Banana, party of one."
Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.
Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.
I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.
It woke.
It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.
He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.
"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"
A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.
All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"
So tell me honestly.
For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.
When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?
Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.
The New York Knicks have outscored their opponents by 272 points in the past 12 games
That's the best 12-game stretch from any team in NBA history, regular season or playoffs
In Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt said Christopher Nolan gave her a very specific and odd bit of direction. He told her to act as if she had something in her mouth, almost like she was chewing. It gave the character a sense of contained aggression, tension, and inner life.
Obsessed with this $54,000 total rehab house in Pleasantville NJ, on a street with a perfect view of the Atlantic City skyline.
It'd be like living in witness protection or something. Hiding out in the reeds, fishing on the beach. Become a regular at a diner in Egg Harbor Twp..
🚨 Highlight of the Day 🚨
The iconic Larry Johnson four-point play in Game 3 of the 1999 Eastern Conference Finals. One of the defining moments in Knicks history—shifted the series in New York’s favor and helped propel them to the NBA Finals.
(June 5, 1999) #SJUBB#Knicks