And how does the sun even fit in the sky?
City-walking with
derspatchel did not pan out since I am still limping like an elegiac couplet, but we did get dinner together at Bronwyn in Union Square, where they serve chilled borscht with sour cream and counterintuitive but successful cubes of watermelon, and walk (slowly) back under an apocalyptic sky of thunderheads at sunset, complete with cloud-to-cloud lightning and the kind of livid glare usually seen only in nineteenth-century paintings of the wrath of God. I am incredibly disappointed at the subsequent lack of hurled thunderbolts. If nothing else, it would have helped with the humidity.

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Damn. That sounds fun. I'm sorry.
The microburst (if that was what it was) involved zero rain and lots of downed trees and apocalypticness for the old friends of mine (and their kid) who unexpectedly found themselves in the midst of it.