For three hours, he and I will wander around his neighborhood on the Upper West Side -- people-watching, sliding in and out of shops, pausing perhaps on a park bench or two -- and talk about what we see and whether something in it might provide the seed for a good stand-up routine.
We pop in to a comic shop and pause to wonder at the window display of the Superhero Supply Company, stocked with cartons of antimatter, cans labelled "Negative Energy" and packets of spiderwebs.
"The proper adaptive tools shop…(pause) I think that is the major problem.
Because I was not informed of the availability of this shop and how to direct older people to go and get the tools?" [Family Medicine Specialist (aged 36 years); 10 years' experience] "The proper adaptive tools shop…(pause) I think that is the major problem.
The shop owner paused and said, "The situation cannot continue like this.
Hurrying to work at a charity resale shop, Roseanne Zielinski paused to tell a visitor that she was for Mr. Gore because she sensed that "he's for the smaller person like me".
Waiting in line at the coffee shop, during pauses between public interactions, or whenever we have a spare couple seconds, many of us reach for our phones.
It seems hopeless, at this point, to offer competitively priced examples from other retailers, but I can recommend any Somerfield shopper with a fat purse and perhaps a fat leg of lamb or sea bass in their shopping basket to pause and consider two Aussie treats at this retailer.
Since the car-free zones were opened in May, they have been home to predictable urban vignettes: tourists resting with their shopping bags, New Yorkers pausing with their cellphones as buses go by a few feet away.
Passing by the new KFC outlet, the Gucci store and the shopping mall, she pauses in the sticky midday heat; overhead, the petit silhouette of Nguyen beneath her conical straw hat is dwarfed by an oversized, neon red Coca-Cola advert.
