• New York, New York - Frank Sinatra (I like the Cat Power cover better but it you've got to give some respect)
• Back in the New York Groove - Kiss
• New York City Cops - The Strokes
• All the Critics Love U in New York - Prince
• No Sleep Til Brooklyn - The Beastie Boys

• Re-read IM’s with Lana and counted how many times I said I liked something she liked that I don’t actually like (7 and 1/2)
• Listened to Claudia VS. The Queen of Hearts
• Watched porn and got bored
• Played a game on Adult Swim
• Read Dad’s old student’s thesis papers (nearly fell asleep)
• Colored my nails with white out and chewed it off
• Tried to Google Earth see into our old house
• Attempted to put all my thoughts for Lana into a letter
• MS Painted a tiger eating Simon
• Considered different ways to get back at Betsy for letting Doggie Hauser pee on my shoes and then not telling me

• Rolled up in Dad's shoes
• Under the droopy fairy on the front lawn
• In the basement sink
• In Mom's work out VHS cover
• Buried in the guest house side yard
• In his cubby at school
• In the school library
• Taped under the Jeep
• Stuffed in between the wall and Ganger's cage
• In Betsy's stinky soccer bag
• In the neighbors piano

• A poster of Sparkly Vampire Dude without his shirt giving me the eyes whenever I take a pee.

• "I'll just say no."
• "I'll take a cyanide pill before I get bit."
• "King, there's no such thing as Zombies. I just won't believe they exist."
• "I'll go in the cellar."
• "I don't want to play your Zombie game, King."
• "I'll just be a Vampire."
• "I'll be a nice Zombie and not eat anyone."
• "I was a vegetarian in college, I can do that again."
• "We'll go to Nana's in Canada, no one lives there."
• "I'll just move to France. There aren't any Zombies in France."

• "No."
• "Cause."
• "Because."
• "Because I said so."
• "Because Dad said so."
• "Don't ask me."
• "Because it only comes in one size."
• "Que?"
• "Ask someone else."
• "Yes."

• Gigantic Polar Bear from FAO Schwarz (for Simon)
• Betsy Johnson Jewelry (for Nan)
• Coney Island snow globe (for Betsy)
• Japanese Waves umbrella from The Met (for Coco)
• I (heart) New York t-shirt (for Mom)
• Bag of candy from Dylan's Candy Shop (for Hooper)
• Uniqlo jeans (for Yael)
• Buddah's from Chinatown (for Lana)
• Big Apple cigarette holder (for Baily)
• Records from Bleeker Bob's (for Cherry)
• New shoes
• New jeans
• Backpack
• New jean jacket
• Bagels

• The hair
• The power stance
• He can wear a gun holster, with no guns, and look well badass

• "You look like Skeletor. So, yes." -Dad
• "There are two reasons you can't. One, you're wearing a zebra print cap. Two, I'm not in it." -Lana
• "You look like a brontosaurus. A big gay, black and white, Izod wearing brontosaurus." -Nan
• "WHY DON'T YOU EAT!!!" -Yael (When did I add Gael to my spellcheck dictionary?)
• "There's so many sharp angles, I feel like I'm looking at a geometry problem." -Hooper

Bonus:

• "Does your left eye call your right eye to ask what it's seeing on the other side of your head?" -Hooper

• Every time she smiles I can't breathe so well. Kind of like how I am with cats.
• I remember everything she's ever said to me. Including, 'do you have a byro I could use?'
• She eats Nutella sandwiches for breakfast.
• Every Friday she wears her clock necklace.
• Last year in European History she let me cheat off her final exam even though I think she knew I knew the answers.
• Her secret favorite book is Le Morte d'Arthur.
• When she's annoyed she huffs and scrunches her nose too much.

• Tampons
• Bras
• (Sometimes dirty) Underwear
• Condoms
• Make up

• Curling
• Underwater Basket Weaving
• Women's Soccer
• Baseball
• That bit with the big thing that you wear on your arm, looks like a fake fingernail and you fling a ball at the wall, that one.