Back in Black

I'm back in NYC, the media capital of the USA. It's just as wonderful as I remember, and just as overwhelming. Last year, the marketing firm Yankelovich reported that Americans living in cities saw an average of 5,000 ad messages per day. I'm willling to be that's more than double in a place like NYC. Heck, just walk around Times Square for an hour and you've got your daily quota.

Speaking of Times Square, I've spent part of each day there since I moved on Saturday. I try not to see the Times building as a metaphor-- an empty shell that was once the center of journalism, now plastered by advertising-- but it's hard. At least magazines seem to be doing OK. Here's where I want to be working in 5 years:

The Hearst Tower is home to Good Housekeeping, one of the most awesome magazines in existence, and on the the most often underestimated. As you can see in my last post, they have a variety of labs and test kitchens to ensure that they recommend only the best to their readers.

Other than Times Square, I've been a lot of places in the past 4 days, including the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Chinatown, Harlem, the Rockerfeller Center, Madame Tussuad's Wax Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, where I posed with a T-Rex (top right).

For the time being, I'm living in NYU housing in a tiny apartment that currently holds five people. I'm still searching for a job as an editorial assistat/intern at a magazine, so cross your fingers and hope that I find something!