Subway Stories: When Women Put Their Face on...

I haven’t seen it in many years, but when I rode the #6 train from the Bronx (J-Lo’s line) into Manhattan some 20-odd years ago, I would occasionally see women putting their makeup on while riding the train. It struck me as about as odd as if a man suddenly decided to shave on the subway. Although, come to think of it, I seem to recall seeing men using electric shavers on their faces once or twice on the subway.

Bronx Zoo: Tiger meets Duck

I was in the Bronx Zoo on Sunday, May 4 and I entered the Siberian Tiger exhibit, where the tigers roam around a large grassy area while zoo visitors peer at them from behind two separate glass enclosures.

One of the panes of glass borders a pond where I imagine the tigers drink. Somehow a duck mother and her ducklings got into the pond, which didn't seem like such a safe place.

Welcome to Madara's New York

I have blogs devoted to film and J-pop, but I also want one I can devote to the experience of living in New York City, either to tell some of the unique stories I've gathered from the past few decades or to post pictures I've taken of the city as it undergoes changes. I'm not going to launch into a long story in my first post, since this is basically a test entry to see how comfortable I am using Google's blog format. (My other blogs are on LiveJournal and Wordpress.)

So, first off I'd like to share pictures of something I encountered on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx recently. One Saturday at the end of March of this year, I spotted a squirrel that was colored differently from any other squirrel I'd ever seen in New York. To my eyes, it was brown.