November 2008
1 post
October 2008
7 posts
going to the moon.
brb.
skeleton of.
even with them digressions she was hiding it topographical muscle he wanted answers clues
punch brunch.
coming back with red juice around the corners of your mouth. a punch brunch mustache above a coy smile that continues to look (mail order catalog) straight ahead (everything’s cheaply expensive) with a fixed gaze (confidence man).
port authority.
missed bets on dirty green fees a maleficent conduit (shiv in the thigh, head in the sea) yogurt stained part time vissor forging handshake signatures kneecap escalators seeking retribution expectedly ghostlike on a pier walk lamplit five strides inland turns brief gotcha!
no one knows what to make of the bailout.
this man in the coffee shop is eating cheerios out of an old cottage cheese container and sipping an orange san pellegrino out of a wine glass.
jetpacks, sans golden parachutes.
sdblum:
loren said today, after we looked at footage of the man flying across the english channel with a jetpack:
“the economy collapsed and people are flying around with jet-packs.”
it seemed like some important threshold had been passed.
September 2008
17 posts
“Excuse me, ladies.
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I don’t have any eyes.
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You...”
– man on eighth ave at 37th st (who did have eyes but was missing part of a front tooth) to s and k
“i could buy a frog and kill it for ten dollars… you know, in case i have a...”
– s
Watch
lots
cherry tomatoes raspberries pr/bp time concord grapes carrots paper hats figs chocolate mint lemon mint standard mint juniper berries castle days tomatillos sage purple beans collard greens pitbulls willow trees green peppers roses peaches roti
park slope kids, streetlevel. →
on the train.
debevoise k. plimpton. of course the name’s embroidered in script font onto a weather resistant laptop messenger bag in the arms of a rare unironic scrawny white male approx. 20-30 yrs of age, head down. make that 30-40 upon seeing his face. dress shoes, khakis and company polo. slouched over from too many days. thankful for my non-soulcrushing job and lack of standardized company polo.
i’ve missed out on my medium red on grey dco face shirt and the spectre of regret haunts.
... →
a huge, blindsidingly tragic loss.
1996 interview.
2005 commencement speech.
2008 obit.
i may or may not have probably seen sam waterston sitting in his personal trailer, what looked to be reading over lines, on reade & elk streets just now.
"country first" GOP mocks community service →
“Our democracy works best when people come together to solve problems, not simply by voting every few years but also by participating in a wide array of voluntary organizations—the “civil society” that serves as a mediator between the power of business and money and the authority of government. Politicians need to listen to people’s problems, help them forge...
on the pitbull.
e: it was bad last night
throwing extremist bricks at the dems
im stopping a huge rant
...
ok.
how is your morning thus far?
s: no
don't stop the rant
morning is great
it's the company's 2nd birthday today
we are drinking mimosas and eating donuts
e: ?!
jealous
mimosas and donuts sound pretty nice
if not a bit east coast liberally and effete
hehe
my blood is so riled
s: arugula flavored donuts
they are from dunkin
not elite donuts
e: har
reading articles on the nation after a few cnn critiques of palins speech
no one seems to be saying anything about just how scary her speech was
about not reading people their rights
about the belittling, sneering commentary that disconnected itself from truth so brazenly
about the lack of any substantive offerings of her own policies or experience except that as mayor of a 6000 person town she did "things"
s: really? no one?
what is the nation saying?
e: that she is essentially sprio agnew
that she gave an impressively attacking speech that was wrong on facts, and wrong in ideology
but they're not strong enough
and i havent seen much of anything that we reacted to last night
s: hmmmmmm
i feel like i have seen a couple of articles critical of her attacks on obama
i mean, not strongly so or anything
e: and when people get angry about her ideologies and illegalities, like in the comments, there are republican comments that counter it saying how happy they are that palin has them scared and that it shows some truth to what shes saying
?!
s: sick
people are sick
s: the comments on cnn for this article are somewhat heartening: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/03/rnc.day/index.html
e: after a rant session with h and r, and those comments i feel a little better
s: drill baby drill makes me barf
e: thats exactly what h said a few minutes ago
i said i was almost moved to eating my shoe and throwing it against the wall i was so upset
s: ha
she is not america. please please please, let that be true
please let us move beyond it
the fear and the hate
it just makes me want to cry and barf
e: i hope this speech will be a turning point for a lot of people
s: and in the right direction, ie away from her
e: its so disheartening and embarrassing to think of the millions of people who ate that shit up
s: i just don't understand. how can disrespect for human rights, fear and hatred of difference, selfishness, unwillingness to help your fellow human beings, imperial imposition of religion on people's lives and women's bodies, war, death, destruction, abuse, lies, manipulation--how can ANY of that be okay with people?
how how how how how how how
e: when its in the name of some justifying belief
s: who says no when you ask them, should people be respected? who says no when you ask them, is it important to treat people well, to help them lead good lives, to not murder them, to not neglect them?
who the fuck says no to that?
s: i am so tired of people abdicating their responsibilities as human beings to a god who doesn't exist
even if he did, would that mean we are supposed to just sit around and let people starve and die and be treated unfairly?
is that what jesus did?
e: no, but he did create the usa to be the hope of the world, with the iraq war being "god's task" and all
there is so much hypocrisy within their own ideologies as well as matched up to their religious beliefs, so much that is against basic human decency
its sickening.
and i really think, even though there's a sizable majority still, the end of the republican party and the base constituency that
s: ?
e: sorry
my thought trailed off as i was answering a call
s: oh
e: i think we're seeing the last, heaving, pathetic gasps from these kind of people with the rnc. they're desperate and they know the tide is turning away from their tired rhetoric
s: i hope so
i really hope so
i told my dad if obama doesn't win, he'll probably have three illegal immigrants on his hands...
e: ha
its true though
i can't say what i would do if he really became pres
its killing me how obvious the inane, bigoted, hypocritical bs is
s: sigh. it's been killing me for eight years.
Palin’s Big Strikeout by ARI MELBER, The Nation
“Sarah Palin gave a riveting and devastating nomination speech on Wednesday night. She shared her inspiring story and brave family, while savaging and ridiculing the celebrated life story of Barack Obama, a fellow barrier-breaking candidate, with whithering attacks on his work as a community organizer, senator, and author. She...
August 2008
21 posts
a community oasis in the bronx. →
another article to come out featuring a greenthumb garden.
dcocrosscountrytour2k8:
Hipsters still have to sleep at some point, ye? There are moments when hipsters are alone, and they must think to themselves how they wish they could wear a nice sweater or a GORE-TEX jacket or some pants that did not cut off the circulation in the legs or contact lenses.
astroland to close permanently...this thursday. →
but don’t worry, because thor management says there will be new “amusements, games, shopping and entertainment galore.” by next summer.
galore.
“The next evening after street-juggling, I return to 59 East 96th Street to find...”
– Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds
“sorry…i didn’t know you in mega virgin!”
– an adorable elderly chinese man, yelling into his cell phone repeatedly much to the amusement of everyone around him at the strand bookstore.
battle of brooklyn, 232 years later →
yesterday, next door.
in the news.
some more recent nyc urban ag/community gardening articles.
urban farmers plant roots and harvest food
inner-city farms
community garden serves many purposes, meets needs
gardens give way
east new york farm tries to reverse obesity trend
leaving things behind.
systems coronation; muscular topography elevates; turned backs; greased-oil-flavor in mouth; absolute shite.
transverse waterfall spigots; dialogue tongues; fear, myopia, false gambits, dinosaurs; interpreting collaged gears working together in maximum/minimum procedures; closer.
obama 08.
“what? are you too cool to clap, brooklyn? would it help if glenn threw in the...”
– jeff tweedy, hero, at the mccarren pool concert wednesday night, to the generally lackluster crowd attending the show for cultural capital and not much else.
“The goats were taken into custody and turned over to the Army once it was...”
– an unnamed source to the Daily News, Goats penetrate fence at heavily guarded base of Verrazano Bridge.
a very excellent. →
in the course of being in ann arbor/ traverse city for the next week, i thought it might not only be appropriate to post baby pictures of sarah, but also other relevant things affiliated with the mitten state, the cities, and the people we know here.
one of them is a blog by mr. adrian miller, a scholar and a gentleman, with whom sarah was a writing tutor at wcc years back, who maintains an...
“just leave ‘em somewhere on 13th avenue, bro…. let ‘em walk.”
– said in a business-as-usual tone from the car service’s dispatcher to one of their other drivers, overheard on the cb radio in our car to the airport this morning at around 4:30am.
Rainwater Harvesting in NYC →
July 2008
22 posts
Golden Retriever Adopts Tiger Cubs →
Letting Carroll Gardens Grow →
bklyndad:
Two ways to ruin the character of a neighborhood, overdevelopment and overprotection.
Man Vs. Metrocard Vending Machine →
Of course, at the stations, some “token booth” clerks tried to help, but sometimes it didn’t work; one would-be straphanger told the Times:
“This morning at the Astor Place station, I had two clerks who told me to insert my card differently, even though customer after customer was stuck with the same problem,” said Torrey Whitman, an administrator at New York University...