It’s not every day a girl asks me to send her more Joe Frank. Hah. But I seem to have earned Joe a new fan in someone who had never heard of him before last week. She spends a fair amount of time driving, it seems, and JF is perfect drivetime material. I listen to him while walking around town, but not in congested areas, especially now with these noise canceling headphones that silence so much of the surroundings.

I dumped 4 old hard drives into the drink today. No particular inspiration landed, it’s just something I’ve intended to do for a long time. I have maybe 7 or 8 more to go. This time I made sure to dump them at spots I would be certain to remember. Last time a couple of them kind of got away from me when I could not be sure where I had dropped them. I could identify 2 of them, which moved around only slightly in the course of about a year. Now they are completely gone.

They made a curiously repellent noise upon impact. They sounded entirely like cheap plastic, which is what I suppose they are.

Now I am thinking I should have dismantled them. But I can do that with the others. The inner plates are actually on the brink of beautiful.

Three of the four drives I dumped today are near the far south end of Rainey Park, near the fence. The other one is at the center of a pair of benches, but not the benches closest to the aforementioned fence. I think it is the third set of benches from there. Last time I was so coy about dumping them, thinking there must be surveillance of some sort. Maybe there is but I do not care now. I pitched them out there with gusto.

There are new LinkNYC installations on the west end of Broadway, as far as 21st Street, where two Titan payphones were removed within the last 24 hours. Another one is outside a nail salon near 23rd Street. I was curious about the empty enclosure at Crescent but so far it seems to have been granted a reprieve, even though it is a functionless stick of metal. I hope they do not get rid of the 3 phones outside Trestle, the new place on Broadway. I have not been there yet but it looks like a great place to just sit and stare at payphones. And sigh.

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I left 4 of my framed photo prints at the Salvation Army. I thought I was going to leave my whole pile of 10 or 11, but I discovered that some of them are actually not bad. I thought they all sucked, because they are all unsold leftovers from the Sunswick show of many years ago. The ones I left at the SA are pretty bad, in my opinion. They put a price of $19.99 on them. I put my web site URL on a sticker and autographed the back, imagining that I might make contact with a buyer of those items. All in the interest of clearing some space, which is a surprisingly encouraging presence in my current life. I don’t think I was never quite a hoarder, but I let some stuff accumulate.

I don’t know if they sold or if they were moved to another part of the shop but 2 stacks of Poetry magazines I left at the Hour Children a few days ago are no longer on the spot where I left them. I went through those magazines and cut out the good poems. I wonder if the buyer (if there was one) realized that when they made the purchase. A few copies are fully intact but most of them are missing pages.

It is time to go home and play the piano.