Brandon Stanton's Blog, page 530

"My son just had a mental episode. I’m sitting here...

"My son just had a mental episode. I’m sitting here watching all these young people having fun, and I’m just thinking that I want so bad for him to be back to normal."
"Do you mind if I share that?"
"I’m afraid someone will recognize me." 

“My son just had a mental episode. I’m sitting here...

“My son just had a mental episode. I’m sitting here watching all these young people having fun, and I’m just thinking that I want so bad for him to be back to normal.”
“Do you mind if I share that?”
“I’m afraid someone will recognize me.” 

“I don’t answer questions before I’ve had my...

“I don’t answer questions before I’ve had my coffee.”
“But what am I supposed to write?”
“You’ll think of something.”

“What’s your greatest struggle right...

“What’s your greatest struggle right now?”
“My next beer.”

“People need to wake up!”“From...

“People need to wake up!”
“From what?”
“The dream.”
“What dream?”
“The dream that’s keeping everyone from waking up!”

“What’s the most frightened you’ve ever...

“What’s the most frightened you’ve ever been?”
“I thought my sister died once because she left me this crazy voicemail. But turned out she was just on mushrooms.” 

“We met when I left a funny comment on a blog post. I was...

“We met when I left a funny comment on a blog post. I was living in Australia when I wrote the comment, and it made her laugh in Austria. So she sent me an email, and we began writing to each other everyday. Eventually we met. I was afraid the excitement would fade when we met face-to-face, but it never did. We got married last week, on the seventh anniversary of that comment.”

“Last weekend she rode her bike around Prospect Park all...

“Last weekend she rode her bike around Prospect Park all by herself.”

“I’m gonna take him home and shag him rotten.”

“I’m gonna take him home and shag him rotten.”

Seen in The Meatpacking District.

Seen in The Meatpacking District.