I read something about brown blood versus blue blood. I’m too wired to look it up but it explained why sometimes when it’s 55 degrees outside it feels colder than it did the last time it was 55 degrees outside. Brown blood. Blue blood. Today is one of the colder 55 degree days, though I remember within the last week being out in 55 degree weather and it felt fine. Today the exact same temperature felt like a cold cold. A heavy cold. So I didn’t go for my usual midday half hour constitutional. I just got coffee and returned to the office.
I get to see a podiatrist Wednesday. I’ve never seen a foot doctor. For all the epic-length walk I do you’d think I would have war stories about foot and ankle ailments but, like so many health-related things, I’ve been pretty damn lucky.
Been meaning to say, I spotted two of these strange specimens on Wwednesday, outside a place called “Baby’s”. A little bit of Streetview sleuthing finds they were never actual payphones in these holsters. Just a puzzling-to-me poster is all they hold today. I don’t know what was contained therein in the past.
I’d never encountered these in any form.
Why do I post this stuff here and not on my Payphone website? Because nobody reads the payphone website anymore, and no one reads this either. I like this space better, for reasons I don’t feel like articulating. So here is where it goes.
There is no good coffee in Lower Manhattan. There, I said it. My definition of “good” includes price, because I don’t do the $5 latte. My limit is $2.50, and at that price point all I get is liquid gruel. I do not even know why I consume that phlegmmy drek.
Traffic has calmed down today but it seemed no one got the memo that a garage had collapsed around here and to stay the fuck away from the area. Cars were trapped in place for hours, according to people I overheard. People were howling with rage when I went out about 12:30pm on … either Monday or Tuesday. I have not been by the site of the collapse. Not something I need to see. But people everywhere are checking their walls and ceilings for signs of crascks and defects. A lot of old buildings in this city.
