The Quiet Car is very well-defended. Even I told someone to shut it.
Archive for July, 2006
#7
July 29, 2006
If someone would like to gift me with a digital camera that doesn’t have the stupid delay that blurs any moving object in the image, I would very much appreciate it. I took about 30 pics of these soccer dudes but most of them look like a bunch of blurry ghosts floating around on the asphalt.
PS1
July 28, 2006
Or, as I like to call it, the House of Blood Shit and Vomit. At least right now, with the Into Me/Out of Me exhibit. I suggest you don’t view it before lunch. This exhibit more than any other made me feel irritation with museum exhibitions altogether, which I think are too overwhelming to take in at once. I once read an interview with Parker Posey where she said she once fled a Barnes & Noble saying “Too many stories!” And at the time I thought “What a nutjob.” But now I know what she means. I feel it in museums. Especially when the exhibit is full of blood shit and vomit. After a short while I was more interested in the building itself, imagining kids shuffling down the halls and into classrooms 100 years ago.
Recent Conversation
July 27, 2006“Do you have anything that says Queens on it?”
“No, only princess.”
Powerless in Queens
July 21, 2006FINALLY the national news is reporting this. Most of Queens has been without power since Tuesday, though Sunnyside got full power back this morning. We were at 60% power last night, which I guess is a brownout. I almost hopped a bus to Maryland by Wednesday when there was still no power, but decided to tough it out like the tough New Yorker that I now am. Queens became a giant block party for a few days, as it was much cooler outside than in our hothouse apartments. Fire sirens were going all day, fire trucks and ConEd trucks on every corner (still today), stores practically giving away their perishables to avoid them going bad. I almost took a nail shop up on its $14 manicure-pedicure special (usually $30) but one step inside that hothouse of a shop and I knew I couldn’t sit there for a half-hour in that heat with toxic nail polish fumes floating into me. Half-price was not cheap enough for that, for me. The food trucks made a LOT of money the past few days, that’s for sure. Lots of tacos and kebabs and Mr. Softie ice cream going around. Last night when we were at half-power I saw the Chinese take-out across the street had opened up so I dropped in to get some fried rice. “No pork, chicken,” the man said. OK that’s fine I said. Then he told me about times in China when there was no power and people would take anything you could give them, but here people are still picky even in the midst of a disaster. I suppose that was a compliment to my agreeableness? Good thing I didn’t follow my half-impulse to cancel the order when they had no pork.
But all’s well again in Sunnyside, or at least on my block in Sunnyside, while much of Astoria is still in the dark. And it is HOT today. The past couple of days have been breezy and cool but no more. The most amazing thing is that not even ConEd knows why this is happening. They have actually been going around block to block to look for darkened buildings to fix. How is it possible that they not only have lost power for so long, but have no idea which areas are still without it? Our block was “lucky”, I guess, in that there was smoke pouring out of the manholes and that’s something they can’t really miss. We must be an epicenter, or something, so we got their attention quickly.
And on a final note I’m sorry it’s taken this kind of mess to get me to write on this blog again…I’ve just been enjoying New York too much to sit down and write. And that’s a good thing if you ask me.
Borough Bonding
July 5, 2006I set my Sitemeter to start tracking hits to this blog from my own computer, just so that I could see “Sunnyside, New York” show up as my new location.
Recent Conversation
July 3, 2006“I’m gonna wake up tomorrow and I’m gonna be in Canada.”
“I’m gonna wake up and be in New York!”
“That was cruel.”
