Will it work?
New year, new server. I don’t know if this will work. I’m lost on getting email to function. I can send but not receive. All MX records are correct and always have been. I don’t know. I should write more. So...
Read MoreShe Sold my Television
I’d been silent on the matter. But for weeks I watched television on a small, soundless, 14″ black and white set that had, without explanation, replaced my big 72″ HD/3D screen. No words. No reason. I felt I...
Read MorePerfectly Placid
Yesterday was one for the amateurs. I felt like death warmed over, and thought I was having a heart attack. Maybe I was. But in the end I decide it was just a stupid fucking hangover, the likes of which has not struck me in...
Read MoreStupid Early
Don’t know why I got here at 7am today. The workplace. I discovered that iKraveit, the local stalwart bodega, is not open 24/7. I was there at 6am and they were closed. I’ve never seen them closed since they opened....
Read More4 Days away and nothing to show for it
I always have plans, ambitions, goals to apply for other jobs or simply quit the job I’m at now. Just walk away with nothing lined up. But I’d be penniless. I’m coming up on 3 years at this job and I have less...
Read MorePear Stems
I might do more of this today. Typing. Writing into a space unrelated to the job I am being paid to do. I almost never do that. I do it here, in the pre-work hours. People here do not like me. I don’t have a problem with...
Read MorePeople Running
Something I’d not spotted, or simply not noticed before, is the people running full tilt down the passageway connecting Fulton Station to the Oculus. The path looks pretty perilous, being at what I’m guessing is a...
Read MoreRosedale No
The Shit Splift schedule truly makes a healthy work-life balance difficult. Sleeps hygiene becomes a distant chagrin. I alsmot always come in on Thursdays feeling like death warmed over, largely on account of having slept in the...
Read MoreMute Commute
Today was close to bliss, commutably so. The assumption that I will always get a seat in the morning has proven questionable, but I was able to find a corner spot today. I would expect to always be able to score something...
Read MoreSick passenger at Whitehall
Caused my commute to terminate at Canal Street when I was already running late (by my sstandards being less than an hour early is late). It should not have such an effect on me but I am shaking and took another 1mg of the panic...
Read MoreBusted commute
My near-fantasy of having a blissful commute is shattered. My personal elevator (as I chosse to imagine it) is out of order and taped up with crime-scene looking adhesive strips. Maybe it will be fixed soon or maybe it will be...
Read MoreHe Hate Me
I’ve come to realize that I enter this office every day assuming that everyone here hates me. I don’t think that’s really true. But this is such a compartmentalized organization. Each individual is like a...
Read MoreFirst time
Yesterday is probably the first time I ever let this happen. I’m not sure. It’s not something for the record books or historical epochry. But I believe I neglected to rinse the shampoo/conditioner out of my hair upon...
Read MoreDismal Commute
In fact it went perfectly. The new Saturday commute has me connecting from the N to the R on the same platform, with only a 3-4 minute wait for the R and no stairs to climb up or down. The R was more crowded than anticipated but...
Read MoreFeeling better and I know not why
It can’t be any real mystery. Diet is everything. Today I feel limber and lithe. I don’t hate being here. I don’t hate being alive. I don’t feel like a burden on those around me. Yesterday was another...
Read MoreSecret Museum
I felt like I was building a secret museum yesterday. A collection of content so secret that no one will ever see it. It’s not scandalous, at least not by my reckoning. But it is what I envisioned when I started...
Read MoreEvery Second Counts, Even When No One Sees
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Read MoreBags of apples
Dreamed I was tasked with sorting out a bag of apples left behind by a girlfriend 8 years ago. The apples were mostly rotten but the grannysmiths held their skin together. One apple was crawling with some kind of worm or maggot....
Read MoreChange up the commute
Again, it’s like I found a secret passageway. The W from Astoria to Cortlandt is my new path to work, non-stop, seats always available, but only on weekdays. The route ends at Whitehall, which I think is only one or two...
Read MoreThrew away her toothbrush
I think it’s been about a month since it ended. I did not keep her toothbrush hanging from the bathroom holster this long for any reason except oversight. I removed her bath towel from the inventory and sent it to laundry...
Read MoreRecord Everything Redux
I am back to activasting my always-on recording devices that document the view outside the living room window, the activities occurring in my living room, me sleeping in the bedtoom, and my time spent in the shower. THe only...
Read More4 Days Away
I think 4 days straight is the most I’ve taken off from this job. I may have done 5 days but I’m not sure. I’ve never really taken a vacation the way others do. I am quite sore today and not feeling...
Read More10,000 Steps
Someone at the workplace singled me out this week for the fact that he sees me walk and walk the walk around the office every day. He sees me getting my steps in and he commended me for it. I don’t know who he is or from...
Read MoreIn a previous life…
I saw two items yesterday which, in a not-so-distant previous life, would have made my eyes and mouth water. One was a folder containg hundreds, possibly 1,000 35mm slides. They were Kodachrome but not the red frame. In fact,...
Read MoreStaying Alive
The current batch of well-intentioned subway litanies discouraging people from being suicidal clickbait by riding on top of subway cars reminds me, inevitably, of the Florida license plate campaign called “ARRIVE...
Read More[ Bug: lost mark ]
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Read MoreThese are Some of the Pianists YouTube’s Algorithm Says I Sound Like
I had to stop posting excerpts from my Piano Practice Room Radio to my YouTube channel because the algo kept snapping back claiming I was stealing copyrighted content. Apparently my playing sounded too much like Van Cliburn,...
Read MoreI Made One Search for Yuja Wang Tickets in NYC. These ads have followed me ever since.
This is, of course, what a Yuja Wang recital/concert performance look like in 2024/2025.
Read MoreNot going to waste my time retyping “responsibly”
Not going to try again. You wasted my time once, you won’t do it twice, not this time at least.
Read MoreGoing to be a shit day
It already is a shit day, starting with some epic nightmares that kept me solidly scared asleep, araid to wake up to this nightmare that felt too real, right up until 5:30. I had been hired to work on some sort of production or...
Read MoreHearing different things
It seemed like a strange encounter at first. An uncrowded subway train, one man standing by a door reading off his phone when another man, walking half the distance of the car, holds his phone up for the other man to see as he...
Read MoreBack at Work
Back at the office after 4 days away. In the 2-3/4 years I’ve been here I am yet to take what would formally qualify as a vacation. Most consecutive days I got away were 5, but mostly I get 3 or 4 days here and there. I...
Read MoreThe day they dug up Lee Harvey Oswald in Fort Worth: 1981 photos seen for first time. No Mention of Nick Beef.
Never-seen photos from the day Oswald was exhumed in 1981 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram...
Read MoreHome. Place.
I am at home. I do not do much writing here anymore. After a few days away from the office, I let myself try to make this place feel like that word: Home. I don’t know if I can. This place, the space with its hunkering...
Read MoreShared from Start: As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their loved ones
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-families-searched-a-texas-medical-school-cut-up-their-loved-one...
Read MoreFirst one of these I’ve seen outside Manhattan
In the Bronx on Wednesday, parked at a gas station.
Read MoreNo more squeak
With my new shoes I no longer make a squeaking, kissing sound every other stpe I take across a linoleum or non-carpeted floor. I am proud of my stature. I no longer sound like a poorie who has not enough money to buy new shoes...
Read MoreParkchester
I did not see as much of this sort of terracotta stuff as I hoped for in Parkchester yesterday,...
Read MoreDisappearances
One of my Liszt bags vanished. Its disappearance is incomprehensible to me. How could it have happened? Where did it go? I’m talking about a bag purchased online, a reusable shopping/tote bag graced with an image of Franz...
Read MoreGutter Phlegm
That is what I feel like today. I am something smarmy. Took an extra half mg of the panic pill but something feels like it will wax and weave my brain matter today. I don’t know why. Slept well, almost too well, until...
Read MorePriced out of strawberries
At the C-Town on Hugh Grant Circle in Parkchester yesterday I spotted a price of $8 for a pound of FOXY brand strawberries. I’ve never seen strawberries priced so high. For about 2 years now a pound of strawberries has...
Read MoreWhat I Used To Do Try and Get Women in 2006. It Did Not Work.
I would make hours-long videos like this for women who said they loved piano music and wanted to hear/see me play. It had no real-world effect. The women watched the videos over and over but remained null and void, stayed home,...
Read MoreSuite Talk: Letterman Interviewing a Shopping Cart. A Tableau.
8am on John Street. It looks like Dave is interviewing a shopping cart and leading a lively...
Read MoreTopless Woman on Fulton Street
A topless woman was seen yesterday on Fulton street, just walking around, protecting her bald head from the sun with a flowery umbrella. I did a double take and abruptly looked away, chuckling at myself over the...
Read MoreWill I Ever Be Good Enough
My tendencies to end up in abusive relationships show no signs of letting up. I foster abuse. I...
Read MoreStrangers in my radio
I knew it was coming. Or going. But to hear strange voices talking sports on my 880AM dial I felt...
Read MoreTelegram: ‘The dark web in your pocket’
I keep Telegram installed for innocuous reasons. But any time someone I know appears on Telegram I...
Read MoreEarly to bed, early to be late
The sudden death of the Payphone Radio Shoutcast stream took me by surprise, to say the least. cheapshoutcast.com has been a rock solid reliable hosting platform for me for over 5 years. I remember one weekend of downtime, and...
Read MoreLanding pad
Twice in the last few months I’ve experienced something I don’t remember ever occurring. Last night I went to sleep early, about 6:30pm, after a very exhausting day navigating the medical system. I woke up at about...
Read MoreWhy am I here?
I am poor because I choose poverty. I am a poorie. If I subsist that satisfies me. I like electronic toys and gadgets and have indulged in those expenses in the past, but not anymore. I am unable to contribute to the economy in...
Read MoreI know how to feel
Sockless at work. A first for me. White people don’t like to show their feet, as a Romanian woman once extolled unto me. I don’t need the discomfort or the extra layer. Still, I surveyed this workplace and found that...
Read MoreWalked a walk
Yesterday was like my olden days, yesterday and the day before, to be exact. Wandering areas...
Read MoreJust Another Saturday
Lots of people sleeping on the 4 train today. More than I’m used to seeing. Maybe they stand out more because it’s Saturday and less crowded, or maybe it’s because I switched subway cars twice on the ride...
Read MoreIndifference
Watching an old video of myself playing a recital, live event, people gathered voluntarily to inspect and discuss… I have not watched it again in recent weeks but somehow it surfaced in my head today, while waiting to...
Read MoreJing-Ding Ding
Dreamed last night my sister had a son or daughter named Jing-Ding Ding and a single bedbug in her house. It did not look like a bedbug to me but that was Jing-Ding’s verdict on the species/genus/phyla/whatever of this...
Read MoreI Don’t Even Know
what happened? I arrived at 6pm, next thing I knew it was 1:30pm the next day. Or so it seemed in the moment. I was awake earlier, around 10am, which is already dangerously off-routine for me. I had fallen off the bed and my...
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