chanaleh | lunchtime musing: Overheard in New York (Reply)

Ahhhgod, I love Overheard in New York. There are many more Overheard sites, now, but NY is the classic. Something about the very place-bound personality of it makes it just work in a way that Overheard in the Office never will.

(I recently subscribed to the

overheardnyc feed for about a day, and had to take it off because it's really too much of a good thing. But now I've signed up for the weekly 10 best by email.)

And, y'know, half the wit/charm/attitude really is in the headlines. I don't know how they do it. Someday I will internalize the ear for it enough to submit something really quality to the semiweekly Headline Contest. But mostly I look at them and... draw a complete blank. Then the winner comes out a week later and it's golden. They also print the 5 runners-up, and normally four if not all 5 of those are as bad as anything I'd have written, but there's always one winner that absolutely strikes it. I just don't know.

Plus, visualizing NYC always makes me think "hey,