The worst thing about New York City

One of my favorite columns in New York magazine is 21 Questions, where they ask random New Yorkers of varying degrees of fame and recognition the same set of 21 questions. After they gather the person's name, age, neighborhood, and occupation, they ask:

1. Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
2. What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
3. In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
4. Would you still live here on a $35,000 salary?
5. What's the last thing you saw on Broadway?
6. Do you give money to panhandlers?
7. What's your drink?
8. How often do you prepare your own meals?
9. What's your favorite medication?
10. What's hanging above your sofa?
11. How much is too much to spend on a haircut?
12. When's bedtime?
13. Which do you prefer, the old Times Square or the new Times Square?
14. What do you think of Donald Trump?
15. What do you hate most about living in New York?
16. Who is your mortal enemy?
17. When's the last time you drove a car?
18. Who should be the next president?
19. Times, Post, or Daily News?
20. Where do you go to be alone?
21. What makes someone a New Yorker?

Anyway, I love reading it. Especially when someone like Itamar Moses says, in response to "What do you hate most about living in New York?",

The knowledge that, because it is impossible to conquer New York, you either have to die here or leave defeated. You cannot leave in triumph. Or, I mean, maybe you can, if you reach some kind of "emotional maturity," but good luck with that, everybody.

Which is what I spent my entire last post trying to say, and mr moses here says it in one pithy little response to a questionnaire. I guess this is why he is a playwright (untested and young, but still, a playwright), and I am not. Not that I want to be a playwright.

I think I might want to fall in love with Itamar Moses. He thinks "someone who could never get elected, like Joseph Biden," should be our next President. "Have you ever seen that guy yelling at generals about torture?" he says. "I want a president who is as apoplectically outraged as I am about the last eight years."

Yes, he used the word apoplectically to describe how he was feeling, which was outraged. Apoplectically. I love him.