At work earlier than ever
Got here about 7am. No need to be this early. Thinking I have big plans for tomorrow. Sunday. Big...
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Got here about 7am. No need to be this early. Thinking I have big plans for tomorrow. Sunday. Big...
Read MoreOr as I continuously called it yesterday: Strain Meet. Strain Meat. I wanted to walk its distance...
Read MoreI am dressed like a fucking slob today. Coffee-stained shirt, pants from 30 pounds ago, unshaved, unkempt. At least I smell passably OK but I look like I should be sleeping on a bus after being released from prison. I chose a...
Read MoreAm I even allowed here? Am I fired? Do I get the call, which would end with laughter? The call that I won’t be failing up after all? My relationship with this gig has been loose. Every shift I sign out of could be my last....
Read MoreI’m back on PRAY detail. Inspired by a social media interaction I finally followed up on a lead someone sent me pre-Covid, a lead on where to find a smattering of surviving etchings from the legendary scratchiti artist of...
Read MoreOr maybe for just a little while. Bought this somewhat by mistake, thinking the image of Charlie...
Read MoreLast night’s commute snafu could have been funny if it wasn’t so fucking irritating. At Queensboro Plaza the announcer says this train will go express. That’s not uncommon but what was unusual was that this...
Read MoreOnce in a while I find myself scaling a philosophical tract, be it a source material or ruminations upon such a source. A word I always trip over is “epistomology.” It is defined as the study of knowledge, or the...
Read MoreWhat do I have to say? Yesterday was a long stramble. I started making a video from it but it felt unnatural. I was up in Q46 country, mostly via Union Turnpike landing in Glen Oaks or Little Neck or Bellerose or whatever the...
Read MoreWho woulda seen that coming. Sitting right next to me on the subway today is a woman I’ve talked to some here at work. But there is never time for that. So this was different. She talked and talked a storm. As always. I...
Read MoreYesterday started with a simple-seeming goal: Find an area of Kew Gardens called (I think) Kew Hills. No joy. I could not navigate 78th Avenue from Queens Boulevard to whatever cross street I had in mind for this magical...
Read MoreSitting in a far corner of the office space. Well lit but soiled by crumbs left by whoever sat here before. That’s kinda icky. I like this seat but someone else usually gets it. The open windows offer a somewhat dismal...
Read MoreIt’s a classic cuisine. Classic breakfast splatter. 16oz, organic Driscoll’s strawberries. Price varies day to day but this batch cost $1.50 at a fruit stand on my street. The exact same product would be 3 or 4 times...
Read MoreI took 3 days off for what I believe is the first time ever since starting this job in January, 2022. Felt like another life. As it should, I suppose. This is not a job one takes home with them, although I have done exactly...
Read MoreOne of the most distinctive and beautiful stained glass pieces at Old Calvary Cemetery is not...
Read MoreI tried to record it. Will listen back later to see if I captured the musical rhythms created by rain drops making their popping noises as they hit the window sill and the fire escape. It sounded like a rhythm in the real but...
Read MoreThis bar graph showing the spike in web traffic one of my sites got on September 11 and September 12, 2014 somewhat eerily evokes the profile of the old Twin Towers.
Read MoreThis strange and somewhat unnerving call came through recently, at my (212) number. Whoever made...
Read MoreWhat is Sunday to me now? Now compared to past iterations, past experiences. It had always been a day of melancholy, and dispute. Dispute with myself, argument, determination of goals versus inevitable journeys. I had no goals,...
Read MoreI read something about brown blood versus blue blood. I’m too wired to look it up but it...
Read MoreI have random flashbacks to S., the bartender I knew a little too well. To say I was infatuated was an understatement. I had that body memorized from the way she drawled on pronouncing my name to the freckle on the back of her...
Read MoreCalvary Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in the United States, and it has a long and storied history. Over the years, there have been a number of notable incidents that have occurred at the cemetery. One of the most...
Read MoreIt wasn’t really tense. That’s just a poem I wrote using only the letters of the word “dentist.” I think I left some of it out. The dentist visit was tense in those moments when the drill and its noise,...
Read MoreA 12 mile wander under the paranoid roar of helicopters, the tumbling thunder showering noise down...
Read MoreI ended up with three days straight not at the job. I felt unmoored and directionless, as i the...
Read MoreWho knew calling the Suicide Prevention Hotline could be so much fun?
Read MoreSo much time to waste. It’s like the purpose of time is for nothing, no mean, no excess. Just nothing but waste and garbage. Yesterday I managed to repost a 1940 book I had scanned years ago. Living Musicians. I had posted...
Read MoreIs it just hype? Holler? Or is it what one CEO called “Fire”? Has it vanquished every...
Read MoreIs every day a beginning, or an end? The end of yesterday is today’s beginning. Or is the now the only true beginning? In my beginning is my end. I didn’t say that. Someone else said that. Am I here or am I there? By my...
Read MoreI spend a decent amount of time looking at maps. I’m no cartographer, but if I had the time I’d at least be a map otaku of some sort. But it was not an actual map that brought the mystery of 54th Avenue to my...
Read MoreDon’t know why but I expected better of ChatGPT than this.
I guess large language models don’t play games with text. They just eat it.
Dessert Fork with Rodent Source: Dessert Fork with Rodent | Smithsonian Institution
Read MoreI thought I’d do here what I usually do at the regular office, and go out for a half-hour constitutional. But this location is contained within a police checkpoint, and my issues with authority kicked in to where I did not...
Read MoreIn the heart of Brooklyn Commons today. Apparently Metrotech will now be known as Brooklyn Commons? Temporary relocation of the office for the weekend, of which I work only Saturday. The R train from Astoria to here was...
Read MoreThe Japanese woman turned out to be a huge bore. Self-obsessed. Not good with words, despite claiming to be as such. Blocked on all channels except for this one, since she had no interest in knowing it existed. I’ve been...
Read MoreI ended up in somewhat familiar territory. I don’t know anyone in East Harlem but I’ve rambled through enough to recognize some shops and, of course, spot some payphones. I only spotted one, at the Thomas Jefferson...
Read MoreMy first attempt at a WordPress “story” format post. Obviously it wants vertically-oriented pictures. Guess I shoulda known that. Hmm. Not a terribly impressive attempt to mimic IG.
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Read MoreBut you will probably never see it. As much as I want someone to see it I do not have anyone in my life at present who would be a suitable or appreciative audience. It is a picture of a quarter (25-cent piece) at rest on my...
Read Moreconvicted of murder last weekin a cornucopia courtroomwhistles blowndistricts shoneno evidence neededmountains of fleecediscounted into homelessnessbubbling with cementnobody’s homenobody’s home
Read MoreToday had all the makings of a colossal fuckup. Fortunately it ended up just fine. I thought we were supposed to show up for work at an alternative location today, in Brooklyn. Turns out that doesn’t happen until next...
Read MoreIt is Friday. I forgot this means I should buy a new MetroCard, 7-day unlimited. I’m confused because tomorrow, Saturday, will be like a field trip. I’ll work in Brooklyn and not the usual Lower Manhattan location. I...
Read MoreJust another day. For some reason Botox ads started blasting out of my phone as I exited the Fulton Street station around 7:35am today. The ads overlapped, playing three times at once with a 1- or 2-second delay. Battering...
Read MoreI’ve been waiting for that instant, moment, second, split second. You never know how or when it might happen. You unwittingly anger a subway urchin (by calling him an “urchin”) pushing the long-time panhandler...
Read MoreListening in at 2am. This is different. Unusual radio. Sprawls out mentallistically.
Read More2:02 PM Sunday, November 20, 2011 I noticed something yesterday, about my reaction to the date. Seeing today’s date provokes a bullet-point of fear, or shock. I am not certain how to describe it, but on some electronic...
Read MoreWhat are some notable incidents that occurred at Old Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York City?...
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Read MoreI used to make up words like this. I still do but not for anyone else’s bemusement. I used...
Read MoreI had to take a day off Thursday which was a day of near-misery, near-emergency-department,...
Read Moremessed up on the pills, but I also messed up on the woman. Just a cruel, brutal encounter, for no...
Read MoreThis Calvary stramble is from a couple of years ago. It only got 31 views. Maybe this will help get it more. Maybe it won’t.
Read MoreI was actually starting to have some confidence in the newest version of ChatGPT. I thought asking it to write a poem in the style of Markovian Parallax Denigrate, the gibberish-spewing Usenet mystery from the 1990s, would be a...
Read MoreI had to do something few would likely ever consider. I had to remove the surveillance camera from my bathtub. I was not forced into it. But there will be maintenance people coming through my place this week and next to fix the...
Read MoreThings get kicked around. A slab from someone’s pizza ends up where it shouldn’t be, causing alarm. I thought it came from her. She said it was from “beyond.” Either way we handled it with surgical gloves...
Read MoreYesterday was from the Guy Stagg book of walking for no reason. I could have stopped but chose not...
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