Stranger on the street just handed me the peonies (of all things) that he was carrying, reversed direction and vanished. I can only assume they are loaded with anthrax.

That's today's lesson in the best and worst reasons to, and not to, live in ny. Weird but sometimes lovely unexpected s*** happens, and you are trained to assume the worst.

I am kidding, mostly, although for the record/for the authorities, this happened on the southeast corner of Broadway and 19th, just now, and the dude looked a lot like my elementary school friend Greg Mitchell, but taller and older.