It was October and the blue had been smudged from the sky completely, like a close-up of an old eraser from a year 7 pencil case. Somehow the romance which Nora Ephron rashly re-instilled in the dry and wearied hearts of lovelorn forty-pluses like Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, etc., amongst the yellows, oranges, breezes, and piles of leaves as crisp as greeting cards in a cooling NYC, substantially altered the amount of pheromones being released into the air by the New York populace. Science is getting back to us with an answer on that one. A chain reaction was caused by this spike in pheromones and love was quite literally ‘all around’. In a place as dense and compact as Manhattan, problems started to emerge quite quickly, especially when these love-critters of scent were flawlessly filtered into every office and apartment space in town via ubiquitous low-fi AC. The next part of the story concerns pterodactyls.
