I am this. close. to getting out of the city. On a Bolt Bus somewhere on the near outskirts of Manhattan, heading to Boston for the night before taking another bus and then a ferry to Martha’s Vineyard.

I’ve never really been on the New England coast before, so I have no idea what to expect (but I’ve packed a long cable knit sweater, a pink shirt with seahorses on it, a sundress and jean shorts, so I guess that gives a clue what I at least subconscious expect: garden parties, morning deck coffee, late-night fire pits and sunny afternoons. The whole thing is substantially less fleshed out in my head than the concept of The South, which involves sitting on porches drinking sweet tea and entertaining gentleman callers in the stifling heat (which, incidentally, is also my concept of Sacramento, Calif.).

But enough of this concept nonsense! The point is, I’ll be playing and working from the great eastern seaboard for the next week, and my excitement is making it hard to concentrate on any … thing … but … sun … and …….. Oh, dear. I better just have at these Friday links before I start modeling my panama hat for you.

• Why Have Green Roofs Not Caught On In New York City?

… considering that green roofs are probably the most beautiful non-architectural manifestation of green building that we’ve yet seen, and that New York City has worked hard to incentivize green roof construction with a property tax credit of up to $100,000, it’s both baffling and kind of sad that green roofs just aren’t catching on in New York City.

• My roommate’s girlfriend, Lucy, sent me this link to a post called Cats are the New Floral. I really wish she hadn’t, because I kind of have to buy the fabric for, like, six people now.

• Turns out my desire to move to Beacon, N.Y. is like North Brooklynites still calling certain parts of Bushwick “East Williamsburg” — frightfully out of vogue, at least so says this NYT article about Rosendale, N.Y., “90 miles upstate,” with “a Brooklyn feel.” In all seriousness, the problem with upstate, where my boyfriend desperately wants to move after another year in the city, is that I feel like I might as well move to Kentucky. It’s hard for me to get into Manhattan more than once a week (if that) while living in Greenpoint; I really can’t see making the trip very much from Rosendale. [h/t to Peter Suderman, who sends me every link about Brooklyn hipsters he ever can as a desperate form of self-denial.]

• OMG OMG OMG. The guy(s?) who run Book Thug Nation in Williamsburg are opening an indie movie theater nearby (Kent Ave. b/w S 1st & 2nd).

The small theater — it only has 12 rows, 93 seats and a 17-foot-by-8-foot screen — is expected have its official opening as an independent film house in late June.

It’s supposed to eventually get food & booze, too.

And I’m going to close on a vacation note again: I’m researching a couple articles on natural sunscreens and natural bug sprays right now. If you have any recommendations or links to resources, please leave them in the comments or send them my way, thanks. Happy Memorial Day weekend, folks.

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