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yamamanamaA week ago, I was in New York City for 48 hours more or less and I took about 600 photos. These will be spread out over several entries, even if some of them are blurred or the exposure was too short or someone ruined my shot or redundant and therefore not worth uploading. I decided I'd split the entries into "miscellany," "architecture," which may be split in two, "metropolitan museum of art," and "armory show," which, again, may be split in two. I promised I'd post these entries more frequently than I did; I fucked up a back tooth somehow and I'm just waiting for it to be dealt with. Oh, and I recommended Paula Volsky's work to a guy who thought the Wolf of Winter's cover looked like a Wheel of Time novel from the back, but not from the side, and definitely not from the front.
An apocalyptic sky. This picture was actually taken in Connecticut. The state's motto should be "To Wikipedia!" because I had to use Wikipedia several times to find out just where the hell I was. They don't believe in signs that tell you how far it is to Hartford or New York City or any of those places.
This just looks cool.
Flying saucer? No, that's just a demonstration of how hard it is to take a night shot from a moving bus. You can't use a flash or else it will just reflect off the window, and you can't use a long exposure, or it ends up blurry.
Attack of the Lightning Elementals
This isn't a bad shot in any way, this is the night sky over New York City with four seconds of exposure. New York City exists in a starless void, apparently.
some things glitter like stars.
and they project rainbows
it's Christmas in Smarch. We left right after the lousy Smarch weather got better.
Boy, this is really expensive!
Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?
They say this cat Shaft's a bad mother–Shut your mouth! – I'm talking 'bout Shaft! – then we can dig it!
The rock doves in New York aren't afraid of anything.
Julia said this was a cow rock dove. Well, she called it a cow pigeon, but rock dove is both more prestigious and more specific.
This is as interesting as New York subway station architecture got on my trip. Partially because I didn't get a shot of the evangelicals and eye mural near the Met and partially because I didn't visit New York's equivalent of Park Street or Kendall or Davis or Courthouse (not a train station). Let me tell you about the NY Metro. They still have turnstiles instead of the sliding gates they have in Boston. Maybe they're faster but you're still sliding your ticket through a slot instead of tapping your card, so if turnstiles are faster than sliding gates, they're being negated. Ok, so we wanted to go to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty (which would be great for photography if Sandee didn't fuck that up), but we got on the wrong train so we ended up checking out the WTC Memorial and some rather ornate buildings as well. I didn't notice much in the way super-creative graffiti here either. Nor did I notice the infamous anti-Arab posters put out by Pamela Geller. Maybe the attack orangutans ate them.
Let me tell you about my subway rides. It felt very empty for a city an order of magnitude larger than the area covered by the T. When we left Chelsea, there were only two other tourists. And every time we rode, we were able to get seats.
this here is why the raccoons are taking over New York. Actually, when we got on the wrong train and decided to take the long way to the ferry and checked out the WTC memorial on the way (in a future entry), the subway stairs had garbage all over them too.
Well, there's this one…
and Evil Bart.
this was just cool. Shame somebody ruined it.
signs of change
This guy here was playing The Entertainer on his steel drum. Those of you who have seen the Simpsons episode The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson would get it.
At first I thought this one was a midget Statue of Liberty, but in reality, they were standing on stools.
Another statue of liberty, made of iron from the World Trade Center tower. It's a woefully inaccurate skyline, but it gets the point across.
Zoiby want balloon1 Want balloon now!
this is a bad shot that came out looking really good.
I'm not sure what they are. Probably mallards. Maybe mergansers or scoters.
horse with a plume
he jumped over four people.
This is a redundant redundancy. In this photograph, you can see a NYPD Police Car, and it is redundant because the PD in NYPD stands for Police Department, which would make this car in the photograph a New York Police Department Police car.
I promised I wouldn't be the kind of person who did this. Um, it's a bagel, AKA the best thing to come out of Poland. The bagel place in Chelsea didn't have a dazzling variety of bagel flavors. What it did have is a dazzling variety of cream cheese. This one has pimento and green olive. I saw a guy with a Bruins hat on. I felt that was noteworthy but didn't want to take a picture of him. Let me tell you about what I ate. You already know about the Ethiopian cuisine. I think they ate finger food like chicken wings before the missionaries came with their eating utensils and then switched to mashed-up chickpeas and such afterwards to spite them. We also had Thai food. I didn't care for the pad thai, probably because it was too moist and too soft. Even if it is the proper way to cook pad thai. I did like the basil stuff and the papaya salad. In no worlds would I call the papaya salad spicy, but it was definitely potent.
I'm not the only person who noticed that Bolt Bus and the British Union of Fascists have the same logo.
A toilet in Newton, Massachusetts.
Oh, I get it!
Look at the first letters of each word.
for now.
This burning question only makes sense if you looked at the pictures.
Burning Question: Can you dig it?
An apocalyptic sky. This picture was actually taken in Connecticut. The state's motto should be "To Wikipedia!" because I had to use Wikipedia several times to find out just where the hell I was. They don't believe in signs that tell you how far it is to Hartford or New York City or any of those places.
This just looks cool.
Flying saucer? No, that's just a demonstration of how hard it is to take a night shot from a moving bus. You can't use a flash or else it will just reflect off the window, and you can't use a long exposure, or it ends up blurry.
Attack of the Lightning Elementals
This isn't a bad shot in any way, this is the night sky over New York City with four seconds of exposure. New York City exists in a starless void, apparently.
some things glitter like stars.
and they project rainbows
it's Christmas in Smarch. We left right after the lousy Smarch weather got better.
Boy, this is really expensive!
Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?
They say this cat Shaft's a bad mother–Shut your mouth! – I'm talking 'bout Shaft! – then we can dig it!
The rock doves in New York aren't afraid of anything.
Julia said this was a cow rock dove. Well, she called it a cow pigeon, but rock dove is both more prestigious and more specific.
This is as interesting as New York subway station architecture got on my trip. Partially because I didn't get a shot of the evangelicals and eye mural near the Met and partially because I didn't visit New York's equivalent of Park Street or Kendall or Davis or Courthouse (not a train station). Let me tell you about the NY Metro. They still have turnstiles instead of the sliding gates they have in Boston. Maybe they're faster but you're still sliding your ticket through a slot instead of tapping your card, so if turnstiles are faster than sliding gates, they're being negated. Ok, so we wanted to go to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty (which would be great for photography if Sandee didn't fuck that up), but we got on the wrong train so we ended up checking out the WTC Memorial and some rather ornate buildings as well. I didn't notice much in the way super-creative graffiti here either. Nor did I notice the infamous anti-Arab posters put out by Pamela Geller. Maybe the attack orangutans ate them.
Let me tell you about my subway rides. It felt very empty for a city an order of magnitude larger than the area covered by the T. When we left Chelsea, there were only two other tourists. And every time we rode, we were able to get seats.
this here is why the raccoons are taking over New York. Actually, when we got on the wrong train and decided to take the long way to the ferry and checked out the WTC memorial on the way (in a future entry), the subway stairs had garbage all over them too.
Well, there's this one…
and Evil Bart.
this was just cool. Shame somebody ruined it.
signs of change
This guy here was playing The Entertainer on his steel drum. Those of you who have seen the Simpsons episode The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson would get it.
At first I thought this one was a midget Statue of Liberty, but in reality, they were standing on stools.
Another statue of liberty, made of iron from the World Trade Center tower. It's a woefully inaccurate skyline, but it gets the point across.
Zoiby want balloon1 Want balloon now!
this is a bad shot that came out looking really good.
I'm not sure what they are. Probably mallards. Maybe mergansers or scoters.
horse with a plume
he jumped over four people.
This is a redundant redundancy. In this photograph, you can see a NYPD Police Car, and it is redundant because the PD in NYPD stands for Police Department, which would make this car in the photograph a New York Police Department Police car.
I promised I wouldn't be the kind of person who did this. Um, it's a bagel, AKA the best thing to come out of Poland. The bagel place in Chelsea didn't have a dazzling variety of bagel flavors. What it did have is a dazzling variety of cream cheese. This one has pimento and green olive. I saw a guy with a Bruins hat on. I felt that was noteworthy but didn't want to take a picture of him. Let me tell you about what I ate. You already know about the Ethiopian cuisine. I think they ate finger food like chicken wings before the missionaries came with their eating utensils and then switched to mashed-up chickpeas and such afterwards to spite them. We also had Thai food. I didn't care for the pad thai, probably because it was too moist and too soft. Even if it is the proper way to cook pad thai. I did like the basil stuff and the papaya salad. In no worlds would I call the papaya salad spicy, but it was definitely potent.
I'm not the only person who noticed that Bolt Bus and the British Union of Fascists have the same logo.
A toilet in Newton, Massachusetts.
Oh, I get it!
for now.
This burning question only makes sense if you looked at the pictures.
Burning Question: Can you dig it?
