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.”
Read MoreI forgot how detailed these bus transfer slips were in 1994. So much to read. Today it’s simply “Free transfer local to local.”
Read MoreI 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...
Read MoreHere are a couple of before and after shots.
Read MoreA picture of her taking a picture of me taking a picture of her. This is from soon after she moved...
Read MoreGot 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...
Read MoreThese dead-faced mannequins at Brighton Beach today looked like something out of… The...
Read MoreA 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,...
Read MoreI think the last one is, in fact, the Grand Hyatt on 42nd Street in Midtown, but whatever. Main Street Flushing Mirrors
Read MoreJust a three-legged, two-headed woman at 66 John Street, and a horse pooping on a West 38th Street...
Read MoreThe long-forgotten Amnesia Night Club, Steinway Street, Astoria.
Read MoreMy Tinder code is #231854. Shh.
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreThis looks like something horrible is happening but I think the dad (left) was just trying to get...
Read More…in with the new. The bare-bulb light fixtures that had been in place since I moved in here...
Read MoreSomehow 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...
Read MoreThis is from 2011, somewhere around the old Studio Square, if I remember correctly. The...
Read MoreFound myself on 47th Street today in this weird hall of unexpected mirrors with a gaudy chandelier...
Read MoreHere’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...
Read MoreIt’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...
Read MoreA friend sent this photo, saying my “unexpected mirrors” series inspired him to get...
Read MoreThe 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....
Read MoreThis billboard looks like it says “AN-GEVS ARE SCREAAMS ECHOSA NEW WORLDS”, whatever...
Read MoreWho knew an evacuation was underway today? And also, TIL: If you pay cash (coin) for a bus fare...
Read MoreA conEdison bill for zero dollars arrived yesterday. Since the pandemic started they did not read...
Read MoreI had not intended to use Ashbery’s “Collected Poems” as a mousepad. Somehow it...
Read More…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...
Read MoreI feel kinda dumb for having thought this, but closer inspection today revealed that the Johnston...
Read MoreI was at Old Calvary today on other business, so I did not have time to find out what this is all...
Read MorePayphones in NYC are finally going away next year so I need a new piece of street furniture to...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreI’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...
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreTo 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...
Read More“Genius!” was all I could say. I spotted this and one other Halloween candy dispenser...
Read MoreThis is from 2012. Rummaging through through what I thought was my recent breakthrough inspiration...
Read MoreI’ve always thought it funny that this humble lot at 21st Street and Hoyt Avenue North in...
Read MoreIt’s a rain day, and while I’m no wuss about most weather conditions I hate being in...
Read MoreThis one came out better than the first one, I think. Near the end you see a dude on a bike make a peace signal and smile for the camera. I guess it’s not lost on passers-by what I’m doing when holding the camera...
Read More…and that word is YES. But this crazy beast was not enough to make me get a haircut yesterday. I don’t think I had a cut since January, maybe even December, and still find enclosed spaces such as barber shops...
Read MoreIn August, 2016, I posted a longer version of this video to YouTube. It shows a daredevil dude scaling the surface of the Trump Tower using suction cups. Yesterday, over four years later, with zero human contact, YouTube’s...
Read MoreThis is my mail-in ballot. I was so hoping this Working Families candidate for New York’s...
Read MoreI spent much of today gone down a rabbithole I had no idea was out there. 25 years ago I had an affair with a married woman. I’m not proud of it, and don’t talk of it with a whiff of braggadocio or trying to impress...
Read More…and that word is YES. But even this crazy beast was not enough to make me get a haircut today. I don’t think I had a cut since January, maybe even December. I still find enclosed spaces with people I don’t...
Read MoreI documented this for my own satisfaction but thought it interesting enough to share, if only for the record. This is the first time New York has done early voting, and from the turnout today and yesterday it’s hard to...
Read MoreI mean seriously, it was like she wanted to elope. She kept saying “I love it so...
Read MoreI’ve been seeing these poems hand-written on pieces of cardboard all up and down Astoria for...
Read MoreIt’s showing its age after 18 years but this 9/11 mural in Astoria/LIC still looks good to me.
Read MoreIt’s like I need a password to cross the street, and the one I use is not of sufficient strength. More #smartcity fail.
Read More…why somebody painted white spots up the middle of the walkway on the Honeywell Street...
Read More@InThePast: #CuteFeet. @InThePresent: #Don’tLook
Read MoreWhat this strip of signage needed was a bit of context. On its own it rang out like an abandoned...
Read MorePosting this tonight because I expect to sleep 14 hours and way past 12 noon tomorrow, the hour of truth. It’s an October seasonal-adjustment thing. I’m sleeping 14+hours a night without wanting to. It was 30 years ago...
Read MoreShe mentioned it twice, both times driving the car whilst circambcombanducantortadillaybewildered, saying it was always/only a woman’s right, not any man’s, a sentiment with which I never disagreed, on instinct,...
Read MoreI have little memory of Bay Crest Elementary School in Tampa, which I attended for one year, in...
Read MoreLooks like I was just about average. The only S-minuses (which I interpret as Fs) targeted my...
Read MoreJust pulled a GPX file at random from my stash of hundreds, even thousands of recorded journeys....
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