'I pick the building that I want to live in'

The police tow your roommate's car (and lose it for several days) in order to erect a mobile watchtower in preparation for the International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Emissaries, which attracts thousands of Lubavitch Hasidim and hundreds of police. 'Have bed, will host.'

'We are agreed - come on: we are agreed - about beauty in the flesh. Consensus is possible here. And in the mathematics of the universe, beauty helps tell us whether things are false or true. We can quickly agree about beauty, in the heavens and in the flesh. But not everywhere. Not, for instance, on the page.'

Flatbush Farm: Iced tea, Bloody Mary, almonds, IPA, Bordeaux.