My personal belongings are strewn about the city, piled up in my apartment, stuffed into drawers at my office and stacked in a storage space in Brooklyn.
During his years in Washington, Mr. Gonzalez shunned the capital's social scene, preferring the comfort of a small apartment stuffed with books.
Les is infinitely condescending and abusive to his meek new assistant, whom he allows to sleep in a storage cabinet in his shambles of an apartment, stuffed with photo equipment.
"I remember sitting on the floor of my apartment stuffing cassette tapes into envelopes; we don't have to do that now," said Tony Margherita, manager for the rock band Wilco.
That was how neighbors in his working-class neighborhood in deep Brooklyn knew him: a bearish pariah holed up in a fetid apartment stuffed with a lifetime of newspapers, books, belongings and all sorts of trash, who worked nights as a printer in Manhattan and ranted about his horrid childhood.
Tooth is a free-floating, cross-eyed, migraine-afflicted critic who, from the greasy burrow of a chaotic apartment stuffed with films and music and books and graffiti, sets about making the cultural connections that the rest of us have missed, frequently on a level that we barely knew existed.
Megan's mother stayed in the apartment, putting stuff away.
Pilon's apartment is stuffed with games, old and new, stacked on shelves and packed in a large wooden trunk.
His Upper West Side apartment was stuffed with them, Mrs. Wald said, especially histories and Judaica.
But Mr. Boss, who says his apartment is stuffed with years of finds, also says he has seen so much come and go that it no longer fazes him.
