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Night Cleans the Day
Sunrises are clean because night washes all the shit out of the air that makes sunsets pink and orange and chimney red.
Benchmarks
A life coach is a psychiatrist/therapist with a best (possibly a mild) seller and without a degree. Instead of having a whistle and making you do push-ups and laps and drills like a sports coach, they give you list-making exercises and paraphrase Bing Crosby songs in elaborate metaphors, ending with some variation of the punchline [...]
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Accidents Will Happen
I went out to shoot some night photos over the weekend and heard a bizarre crashing noise– not exactly the screeching of tires and crunching of metal on metal. (4:30 am is good because you can set up a tripod in unusual places and usually not arouse much attention.) Anyway, I kept shooting until I [...]
Not Done in the Movies Yet
You’ve heard of waitress and bartender tipping, cow tipping, junkie tipping, and drunkie tipping. How about parking lot tipping? If the new Transformers movie doesn’t do it, it’s only a matter of time.
Spam Attack
One of my posts was getting spammed 50 times a day in the comments and there was nothing on it I could see that would warrant such an attack, not even a dirty innuendo or a cuss word. I changed the name of the post a bit and removed some of the links and tags [...]
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Thanks for the Rock
For the record, I’m taking a break. I didn’t have a fight with Bill.
Here’s To Those Who Died For Our Country
Flags fly at half mast permanently in some spots. It’s before Memorial Day but I was passing by.
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Spieling Around a Dry Fountain; Alice Tully Hall
At Lincoln Center yesterday, there was a graduation ceremony for Juilliard students. I found it odd they couldn’t turn the fountain on as part of the festivities — all those snapshots of parents and new graduates in their fine clothes and lint-free graduation gowns made lacklustre by some cost-cutting bureaucrat. The refurbishing of Alice Tully [...]
Posted in Art, General Pop Culture, Music Tagged Alice Tully Hall, architecture, Lincoln Center, Slavoj Zizek 1 Comment
Table of Junk
Steve Rattner, one of the new puppet masters Ecuador election results continue leftward tilt in South America. Obama administration quietly seeking extraordinary military power in Pakistan. Messing with the polls and other tricks to manufacture consent to Israeli apartheid Line between espionage and lobbying further blurred in recent acquittal. Richardson and Roubini: We can’t subsidize [...]
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