mattlawyue

Work in Public Relations in NYC. Written for SLAM Magazine, ESPN NewYork, the Boston Herald and BusinessWeek. The College of New Jersey, '10.

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These elegantly simple transit map posters were the wonderful result of a collaboration between a graphic designer and an engineer. They are available for sale at lineposters.\

I really want Boston, Paris, and NYC. (but mainly Boston because y’know we rock)

So Paris’ transit system is basically one giant homage to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What does it mean??

Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected check in the mail, to beat finding yourself at large in a foreign city on a fair spring evening, loafing along unfamiliar streets in the long shadows of a lazy sunset, pausing to gaze in shop windows or at some church or lovely square or tranquil stretch of quayside, hesitating at street corners to decide whether that cheerful and homey restaurant you will remember fondly for years is likely to lie down this street or that one? I just love it. I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson isn’t a particularly deep read, but, more often than not, he’s on point when he waxes poetically like this. From neither here nor there.