Monthly Archives: November 2008

Saturday at the Beach

I’m not really at the beach but I’m close to it and hanging at a hookah/coffee bar plus it’s a great excuse to post this photo of my Dad’s which is probably circa 1956. Here are some things on the shelves. They also have a walk-in humidor for cigars here. Hookah tobacco is like incense [...]
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You Need These Details

I watched a series of low-budget indie movies in which the details made the movie. In Bruges had a sweet hotel proprietor and a movie within the movie and the amazing city of Bruges; The Visitor featured the djembe drum as well as dastardly true-to-life detention system; Red Road‘s main plot device was the surveillance [...]
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Las Vegas Is Milk and Honey

Just an observation. They built the new part right around the airport and you see the Empire State Building when you take off. Some dickwad thought that up. I was disappointed there were no slot machines at the airport. Lettin me down Vegas.
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You Blew Up Your Television

Find the matching set! The gears of garbage trucks woke me up. On Tuesdays, my block is often blessed with the garbage truck followed by the recycling truck and they hold up traffic so with luck, we also get honks and yelling. It’s not much worse than being woken up by “The Takeaway” on WNYC. [...]
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Bricks

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I Thought I Should Post Some Leaves

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Basement Bailout Bargains

Choice bits from this month’s Harper’s Index (these aren’t posted yet): Percentage by which the $750 billion bailout exceeds the total U.S. GDP of a century ago, adjusted for inflation: 50 Percentage by which it exceeds the cost of the entire New Deal: 33 Factor by which it exceeds the cost of the 1990 savings-and-loan [...]
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Bonus Back of the Beacon

Same block ten seconds later.
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The Blue Park

Smurfs frolic here or they make smurfs here in vats of blueberries with lots of sky, ocean, space, and blue algae. There are aquariums with blue whales, bluefish, and aquatic murals on the walls with all kinds of fish. I went for a ride today (to 71st and CPW and back if you must know) [...]
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Hot Sauces on TV

Make crappy art with your crappy photos! I hate receiving a Netflix disk, looking forward to a good movie with the cats and popcorn sprinkled with olive oil and parmesan and cayenne, only to open the red envelope and find a cracked disk. What, I have to read that totally awesome 600-page novel again? (Still [...]
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The Bike Path Contraption

This is the Bike Path Contraption They’re using to finish building out the Hudson River Greenway bike path north of the 79th Street Boat Basin and right next to the Hudson River Parkway, a project to be finished in 2009. (This is shot from the detour portion of the path in Riverside Park.) Who knew [...]
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Olde New York(e)

I enjoy watching old movies shot in New York partly to see how much of it has changed and how much is still familiar. These are from Port of New York (1949) which is to the second season of The Wire, as Blue’s Clues is to A Scanner Darkly. There’s a long scene shot in [...]
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