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M72 Bus Transfer 1994

I forgot how detailed these bus transfer slips were in 1994. So much to read. Today it’s simply “Free transfer local to local.”

I Thought This Was a Giant Tooth. It is a Diamond in the Tiffany’s Jewelers Window on 57th Street.

I let sorabji.mobi, one of my favorite domains, expire a few months ago. .mobi is a failed top level domain originally intended for use by websites that were designed for mobile devices. That was before seemingly everything was...

Hey, Girl…

Into the Frying Pan

Messing With Another New Photo Editing Software Tonight. Liking It.

Here are a couple of before and after shots.

Highway Descanso

Union Street in Flushing

OPEN

MAKE LIFE BEER

From When We Were Mutually Infatuated With Each Other

A picture of her taking a picture of me taking a picture of her. This is from soon after she moved...

Got on the Wrong Bus…

Got on the wrong bus today and ended up at the Hutchinson River Parkway and Lafayette Avenue, across the street from Saint Raymond’s Cemetery. I’d only entered St. Raymond’s two or three times, years ago, on...

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Long Shadows Walking Past. It’s Like They’re Walking Through Me.

Let’s Walk Through the Long Tunnel at the Briarwood E/F Station in Briarwood, Queens

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NEW WORLD MALL

To Iterate: I Love Main Street Flushing

Brighton Beach Mannequins

These dead-faced mannequins at Brighton Beach today looked like something out of… The...

Income Tax Airman/Air Dancer. Fordham Road. January 2, 2021.

The Punjab Emergency Room

A couple of days ago I stepped on a shard of glass sharp enough to penetrate the bottom of my shoe. It felt like it came but a millimeter away from stabbing the bottom of my foot but I managed to stop my forward motion,...

Unexpected Mirrors at Main Street Flushing Today.

I think the last one is, in fact, the Grand Hyatt on 42nd Street in Midtown, but whatever. Main Street Flushing Mirrors

Spaghetti Blast

Interesting Streetview Finds Today

Just a three-legged, two-headed woman at 66 John Street, and a horse pooping on a West 38th Street...

I Forgot About This Place

The long-forgotten Amnesia Night Club, Steinway Street, Astoria.

INSECT

Not Supposed to Share BUT…

My Tinder code is #231854. Shh.

Older Guy Beats the Snot Out of a Teenage Kid

At first I thought they were making out. I remember hearing alternate jeers from the gathered crowd. One side said “Teach that kid a lesson!” The other was “You can’t chokehold a kid like that!” I don’t know what led up to this but guess the kid disrespected the elder, who knew what he was doing way more than the younger, and the former paid a price for it. Aah, Astoria, September, 2011.

Get Into the Stroller, Dammit

This looks like something horrible is happening but I think the dad (left) was just trying to get...

Out With the Old…

…in with the new. The bare-bulb light fixtures that had been in place since I moved in here...

Antonio Soler, Keyboard Sonata #25

Somehow I have managed to mostly avoid the keyboard music of Antonio Soler, the Spanish composer often compared to fellow countryman Domenico Scarlatti. Based on my evolving journey through Soler’s music I find the...

Shoes Dangling From a Telephone Wire

This is from 2011, somewhere around the old Studio Square, if I remember correctly. The...

Got a Little Lost in the Diamond District Today

Found myself on 47th Street today in this weird hall of unexpected mirrors with a gaudy chandelier...

Bonfire at the Crematory

Here’s something I, for one, don’t see everyday. In one minute this car at St. Michael’s Cemetery in Astoria went from peacefully parked to fully engulfed in flame. I wouldn’t know what caused it, but all...

A Stramble Through St. Michael’s Cemetery

It’s not my favorite cemetery, but it might still be where I end up spending eternity anyway. That decision making process is still in the works. This stramble led to many of my usual destinations, including certain of the...

Sated

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Today’s Unexpected Mirror, Broken in a Trash Can and Wrapped in Tape

I Read This as “STOP EATING YOUR FELLOW FART BEINGS” and I Stand By That Interpretation

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This Poem Is Called “TIRE”

Reflection in a Heart-Shaped Mirror

A friend sent this photo, saying my “unexpected mirrors” series inspired him to get...

Today’s Unexpected Mirror

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Throbbing Nuclear Egg

The camera on Samsung’s Galaxy S9+ is, for the most part, pretty impressive… Except when it makes the sun look like a giant throbbing nuclear egg, causing a bioluminescent pixie to dance on the ground in front of me....

AN-GEVS ARE SCREAAMS ECHOSA NEW WORLDS

This billboard looks like it says “AN-GEVS ARE SCREAAMS ECHOSA NEW WORLDS”, whatever...

MTA Bus: Evacuation Center?

Who knew an evacuation was underway today? And also, TIL: If you pay cash (coin) for a bus fare...

Did Not See This Coming But Guess I Should Have

A conEdison bill for zero dollars arrived yesterday. Since the pandemic started they did not read...

Ashbery as a Mousepad

I had not intended to use Ashbery’s “Collected Poems” as a mousepad. Somehow it...

I Started Collecting Pictures of These Things…

…and then I stopped collecting pictures of these things. They are obviously some kind of surveying guideposts, of which I found a couple others today. But the text on the others more or less explained the purpose of the...

Johnston Mausoleum: I Answered My Own Question

I feel kinda dumb for having thought this, but closer inspection today revealed that the Johnston...

Is the Mighty Johnston Mausoleum at Calvary Coming Down?

I was at Old Calvary today on other business, so I did not have time to find out what this is all...

Socrates Park’s Wall of Tombstones, Take 2

New York City Transit Benchmark Do Not Disturb MJELS BM#

Payphones in NYC are finally going away next year so I need a new piece of street furniture to...

181 Alignment

A couple of curious alignments of the 181 took place this week. Someone contacted me about doing an interview for their podcast. The email included a link to their YouTube channel. The channel had 181 followers. I later got this...

Today’s Unexpected Mirror

The Mystery of Socrates Sculpture Park’s Wall of Tombstones

I’m probably going to make a second attempt at this video, but I’m posting this version anyway in case I don’t get around to it. I sound kinda sleepy, I misspoke on a couple of things, and I seem to have not...

Siegfried Langgard: Liebeslied (Love Song)

This is what I did with yesterday’s unexpected extra hour (I forgot about the daylight savings time thing). This piece has fistfuls of notes but it’s not too difficult until the end with the long stretches in the...

Questions Answered

To bring as much closure as possible to last week’s existential discovery, I found a breakthrough piece of evidence on Saturday that led to the dismissal of virtually any questions I had left about whether I really did...