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After taking these pictures at Straus Park (not the fire escape ones), I sat in a bar with a million TVs and there was nothing but snow news: talking to plowers, motorists, sledding kids, moms at the shopping mall and why the hell are they at the shopping mall, and mayors talking about how many plows are out there. You’d think we’ve never seen snow and that plowers fly south when bad weather comes. Two websites I looked at recently:

• A fantastic archive of American photography focusing on California suburbia.
• Go on chatroulette and see if someone pays attention to you for more than a second. Probably helps if you’re a girl.

Update (Feb. 28, 2010): Added 19 more pix (after the first six) to this gallery taken during the next two snow blizzards of Feb. 16 and Feb. 25-27.

Tags: General Pop Culture, Photography by hugh
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Litterbugs bug the crap outta me. I picked these up myself and carried them to a street garbage can. Me=hero. Blogging while DJing.

Tags: General Pop Culture, The Lunch Wire by hugh
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These were taken 20 seconds apart and yet it’s pretty hard to find one person in both shots. I can.

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Why do these plants produce flowers when they have their whole fern plop it over there schtick? The answer is probably on wikipedia.

Tags: General Pop Culture, The Lunch Wire by hugh
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I have luggage that needs to be sorted and I don’t mean I took a trip. I was disappointed that Bill Moyers is retiring before Oprah. If you want a great talking heads fest with Bill, check out this web exclusive with Glenn Greenwald. Find out why I’m disillusioned with Barack Obama and politics in general. It’s around 40 minutes so go get some popcorn if you decide to watch it.

Tags: General Pop Culture, Politics, TV, Celebrities by hugh
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A very nice bridge. Along with train stations, bridges are among the best sort of public construction. Highways are too ubiquitous. Airports have been ruined by x-rays and TV sets.

Tags: General Pop Culture, Travel, places by hugh
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Happy Halloween! There were many raised eyebrows this year at Halloween being the second holiday in money-making only to Christmas. The crowd promoting the war on Christmas seem to be starting the war on Halloween [via Sadly, No!]. I always marvel that it’s the one holiday that adults get to have away from their families if they want to and at the same time, I wonder why Halloween doesn’t happen more often.

Tags: General Pop Culture by hugh
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My fat cat woke me begging for the new cat food I got her for a treat. Old cats are like old pants. Anyway I found a sunset pic which is also like old pants. I wasted some time Friday night on Google’s image labeler. That is some addictive software and meanwhile, you’re helping the man. I played for about an hour thinking one of my photos might come up and then seeing what keywords my partner might come up with… “blue night crap”? Har Har. I was also waiting to see if anything came up from the Middle East or Asia or some other war zone. I figured out that most people know different stuff about different celebrities and that most people aren’t color blind.

Tags: General Pop Culture, TV, Celebrities by hugh
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This is a pile of CDs for which I will be entering a UPC code and putting up for sale online. Most are fetching $3-7 but a few are fetching a whopping 15¢ and I sold a few rarities for $29 and $40. I’m impressed some people still pay for this little package of music.

Tags: General Pop Culture, Music by hugh
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Overheard from two kids at the fireworks display tonight on the Hudson River:

Kid 1: I wish I was a fireworks. Then I would be SO PRETTY!
Kid 2: Then you would die when you came down.
Kid 1: How do YOU know?

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Locks have a fascinating history. As a kid I was on a mailing list for a locksmith school. It’s a good trade and I sort of wish I’d followed up on it. At the time, I was afraid of being under suspicion all the time. When a crime is committed, call the locksmith. Once you get involved in security, you are under surveillance.

A friend of mine has locked herself out of her apartment twice in the last six months and the locksmith made a fortune. Something like $450 a pop for a half hour of work. (Not endorsing this locksmith service. I just saw the sticker on my steps as is and took a photo.)

Tags: General Pop Culture by hugh
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Here it is. The news story every tourist is covering.

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