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Big Ideas

I have been letting myself down. I have big ideas for a new web presence, but I drown in the details. I can barely look at code anymore. My new site would endeavor to be all this and more, ha ha. A combo of the .MOBI and this, and all the thousands of other things […]

you are cute. I would take you home but you might have bed bugs.

Dear Stoner Friends

Tomates & Blueberries – Sorabji.MOBI

Source: Tomates & Blueberries – Sorabji.MOBI

Sorabji.MOBI: MORRISEY ROCKS

I’ve been cleaning up Sorabji.MOBI, assigning posts to categories and (next up) tagging every single one of the 2,673 published posts. I might have to give up on the comprehensive tagging, but I will at least go over the most recent few hundred postings. This MORRISEY ROCKS stone is at Old Calvary. It looked amusing at […]

Pretty sure I will shave tomorrow. – Sorabji.MOBI

Mannequin looks like it is on drugs

This Looks Like Bart Simpson Got Lynched.

Spill – Sorabji.MOBI

Sounds from the Manhattan Phone Booths – Sorabji.MOBI

This is from a few weeks ago. I forgot I did this. I spent a day hunting for phone booths on the far west side, finding a beautiful row of old green booths at the 79th Street Boat Basin. Then I checked in on the new booths on West End Avenue. The new booths replaced […]

Sorabji.MOBI: Graf by HELLBENT

AXE 4 HelP For The PoTs

Barbie in a Shot Glass

Via Sorabji.MOBI

Run!

Source: Run! – Sorabji.MOBI

You will get hurt REAL BAD!

Angry sign on Crescent Street in Astoria. September, 2014.

The refrigerator of love – Sorabji.MOBI

Source: The refrigerator of love – Sorabji.MOBI

Bowlmor Arcade

I made it to Bowlmor on Times Square tonight. I played three rounds of pinball on the third floor. It was not like playing the Baywatch pinball machine at the old Broadway Arcade but I found the experience close to old school. The three tables at Bowlmor had a common theme of rock bands: KISS, […]

Lunchtime – Sorabji.MOBI

This is from Sorabji.MOBI. I’m tinkering with WordPress today for the first time in months. This is how to use the “Press This” plugin, which allows you to share any page you encounter to your own WordPress blog. “Press This” unfortunately has no way to let you assign these posts to a default category. It’s easy for […]

Squid Pork. Very exotic for me. – Sorabji.MOBI

I was making almost daily trips to Flushing for a while, in an effort to get as much value as possible from an unlimited weekly MetroCard. that is where I purchased this ill-advised spicy platter of squid pork. It just was not my style. I’m pretty pedestrian when it comes to food. The sandwich is just […]

Glendale – Sorabji.MOBI

This place of business in Glendale had a curious entreaty on its front door. Source: Glendale – Sorabji.MOBI

Me at 9:30 am. I am doing ME stuff again. I am doing Mark A. Thomas stuff with the confidence to fail. Wait for it, World.

Failure is essential. If you think you do not fail regularly then you are lying to yourself. Or else you are a uniquely exquisite specimen of human. In which case, Lucky You!

Pollo Vivo

Moments after taking this picture a ghastly stench overwhelmed me. I would consider myself lucky that I do not live on this block, but it happens to be right under the subway and the odds of me choosing an apartment here are not favorable. I was reminded of the BAG OF DEAD BIRDS I spotted […]

Love Lock

Picture of a Love Lock on the Ed Koch/Queensboro Bridge connecting Queens and Manhattan. Locks on the Queensboro are pruned regularly, unlike certain European cities where locks accumulate until they threaten the stability of the bridge. From Sorabji.MOBI.

Haunted

There is something haunting about discovering something of mine which I had absolutely no memory of creating. More specifically it is strange to find that I have no memory of creating this specifically for someone else.

Faheed of Jamica. Memories of .MOBI

This photo, in which a property owner requests one “Faheed” of Jamica (sic) stops dumping his garbage here, was posted to Sorabji.MOBI in 2010. I’ve been rummaging through the years of .MOBI after discovering that I have not been backing it up to my RAID. Its loss in the event of disk failure (or hack […]

PS1. These Seem Precarious.

This is from Sorabji.MOBI on Sunday. I did not see anything but these statues’ heads holding them to the ground. It seemed almost impossible that they would not tip over one way or another. I passed by PS1 twice over the past couple of months, intending to cash in my free one year membership that […]

Kittens Under Car

This is from Sorabji.MOBI. I would think even the tiniest kittens hiding underneath a car would skedaddle the moment they heard and felt the engine fire up. It reminds me of the old riddle: There are 4 crows on a telephone wire. You shoot one of them, killing it. How many are left? The wrong […]

The Sound Of My Own Google Voice

I made a strange and eerie discovery regarding my Sorabji.MOBI project, and other things I do with my mobile phone. Over on Sorabji.MOBI I sometimes post stories which are dictated by me and automatically converted to text by Google’s voice recognition software. These dictations are usually riddled with errors, which are sometimes funnier or more […]

That Was That

Enthusiasm built last night at having finally gotten to know this expensive theme I bought last year. Enthusiasm squished when it is revealed that none of the advanced flourishes are mobile-ready, contrary to claims made by the creators of this expensive theme. That’s unfortunate but hardly surprising, as the slipshod world of WordPress premium themes and […]

.MOBI Rising

Yesterday’s post to Sorabji.MOBI looks funny to me now. I already forgot about the content therein, as the goal was only to force me into remembering how to simply sit and write for a period of time, uninterrupted, regardless of the niggling concern that I am flooding a world drowning in text matter with more needless drivel. What […]