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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Helpless
Everyone appeared to be helpless. It was mid morning, on a lower level subway platform. She, twenties, blonde hair, conservatively dress with two pieces of luggage, was bent over sideways on the bench, asleep. The MTA system has sectioned the benches all over the city, so that lying down to sleep is not possible. Sitting …
Restaurant Row – continued
The list row completed.
Restaurant Row
Who would have thought it. These trucks and carts are lined up one after another on 14th Street, forming indeed a ‘restaurant row’. The ultimate easy-take-out for the office bound. There are additional trucks…. to be continued.
Fender Bender Protector
Attach them over the rear bumper to protect it from being dented by someone else’s parking skills… or lack of. Hopefully the driver who bumps into the front of your car, has one on the back of his.
A Thought
The New Yorker of 2nd July, p 76 had an interesting article on American children and their dependance on their parents, at all ages. The article begins by telling the story that an anthropologist at UCLA observed while living with an indigenous tribe in the Peruvian Amazon. I won’t give it away, in the event …
Shoes
Who knew they were divisible into two categories: those that walk and those that go only from door of apartment to car to door of event. Not meant for walking more than a block if that. So the question becomes: Do you have double the shoes? Or do you revert to carrying the non-walkers in …
In a Box
That’s how the neighbors refer to it: Jesus in a box. This stands close to the sidewalk in a former Italian-Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn. This is a leftover in an otherwise normal front yard. By that I mean, there is no church in sight. At night the interior lights come on. [An en-light-ened Jesus.] I …
4th of July Celebrations
Happy 4th!! The City is gearing up for the major fireworks display that takes place on the Hudson River. All the trees in the vicinity of 8th avenue and 12 street have 6 foot tall, 2×4 frames encasing them. To prevent them from being broken by the crush? Seems like overdone precautions. But perhaps this …
Escapees
from a medical facility is what we resembled. Purple plastic bands snapped on at our wrists. Can’t take them off, or we have to re-up and pay the $30 again. The bracelet is the ticket into the 14th annual Del Close Marathon. One weekend, 24 hours a day for 3 days on 7 stages, 392 …