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"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see." (G.K. Chesterton)

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My mind wanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The NSRG is my opinionated travelogue and guide to places online and off, near and far, real and imagined.  It is my literary journal where I post thoughts about writing and books.  It is also my collector’s guide to collectors (and their collections) and collectibles that interest me. (Once upon a time, I owned my own collectibles business and ran online auctions; now, with the NSRG, you could say my business is collecting myself.)

Finally, the NSRG is whatever I want it to be – a weblog mapping the places where my mind wanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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    • A Tourist's-Eye View of DUMBO, My NYC Hood: "Offbeat Brooklyn neighborhood offers history, bridge views" http://bit.ly/byawBV 7 hours ago
    • Leonard Nimoy’s Portraits Show [Northampton, MA] People’s All-Human Selves http://nyti.ms/bIP2j6 1 day ago
    • Frank Rich on ‘Why Has He [Obama] Fallen Short?’ in The New York Review of Books http://bit.ly/bSx3VJ 3 days ago
    • Two of my favorite people are getting married today (and one of them is my daughter!!)!! 5 days ago
    • Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales http://nyti.ms/97dSdZ 1 week ago
    • 2nd best secret in Fulton Ferry: Calexico Mexican food cart on Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park (via @FultonFerry) 1 week ago
    • Best kept secret in Fulton Ferry: Lobster rolls from Red Hook Lobster Pound under the tent at Fulton Ferry Landing (via @FultonFerry) 1 week ago
    • "Writing is hard — writers say this all the time . . . But it's not nearly as hard, in my experience, as not writing." http://bit.ly/au3MlR 1 week ago
    • Writing a book proposal is like writing a college admissions essay except you hope they give you $100,000 (cont) http://tl.gd/2i7d38 1 week ago
    • Check out & download HARD TIMES EP w/Alecia Chakour, Darby Wolf & Makaya McCraven http://bit.ly/9Sy3KJ 2 weeks ago
    • R.I.P. - New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner Has Died at Age 80 http://es.pn/cp0jgF 2 weeks ago
    • R.I.P. - Tuli Kupferberg, Bohemian and Fug, Dies at 86 http://nyti.ms/aqfwrq 2 weeks ago
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