
excerpts from a boring man’s diary (#31)
On a sidewalk in Midtown, during a busy time of day, I thought for a moment that a man was waving...
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by Edward Mullany | May 18, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
On a sidewalk in Midtown, during a busy time of day, I thought for a moment that a man was waving...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | May 11, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
In an aisle of a grocery store that was popular, but expensive, I passed two women who’d stopped...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | May 4, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
During the day, on the upper east side, on the sidewalk out front of a funeral chapel in which a...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Apr 27, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
During the morning commute, I watched a man who seemed to be lost in thought as the train stopped...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Apr 20, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
On the sidewalk out front of a theater that had just opened its doors after the nightly production...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Apr 13, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
In the park a man spoke sternly to the dog that was straining against the leash by which the man...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Apr 6, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
Through the glass of a window of a bank I was passing as I walked along a sidewalk in Manhattan,...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Mar 30, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
In the museum a boy was talking loudly about a painting he liked.
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Mar 23, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
On the train I was on, during the morning commute, was a man who spoke loudly, to myself and to...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Mar 16, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
In a bar, a man tried to tell a woman who didn’t want to leave that it was time now for them...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Mar 9, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
A young man reached for some coins or some change in the depths of the pockets of his...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Mar 2, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
At a party in an apartment in the city, in a neighborhood that was nicer, or more expensive, than...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Feb 23, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
Unable to sleep, I’d left my apartment and had been walking through the park at an hour that...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Feb 16, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
In Midtown, in the lobby of a building in which I had no business but into which I’d wandered...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Feb 9, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
In the park an old woman was talking to the pigeons.
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Feb 2, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
In the park, sitting on a bench across from me, on a morning when the weather had become pleasant...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Jan 26, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
In the city, in the afternoon, a woman who was waiting for the same walk signal I was was holding...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Jan 19, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
In the evening, out front of a bar on one city block or another, I passed two young men smoking...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Jan 12, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
While the girl waited for the bartender to fix the drink she’d ordered, a man who’d already been...
Read Moreby Edward Mullany | Jan 5, 2017 | A Boring Man's Diary
At the interview for a job that eventually was offered to a candidate other than myself, the man...
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