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Busted…
My dogs are barking…
I walked 14 Kilometers today, to and from Westerland, Sylt’s main town. Most of the journey was along the bike path, but I did take a detour through the dunes so that I could walk along the beach for a while. It’s all quite gorgeous. And once in town I took a stroll down the main drag like any other tourist. eventually I found Woyton’s the local, semi-funky wifi equipped coffee shop. I have the homing instincts of my tribe. that being the tribe of louche caffeine-swilling screen gazers. I didn’t have the laptop with me, but as I sipped my latte and ate my sandwich I saw my fellow patrons intently pecking out their various communications. The laptop has replaced the blackbound artist’s book that so many of us regarded with great seriousness in previous decades. Then the joke was that we were all working on masterpieces of solipsism, projects so twee they would never be published. Now everything is published, and to what effect?
This post could have been written there, while I was looking out at the encroaching storm clouds, but instead it’s being written here, back in my tidy apartment. I managed to beat the rain back and I’m about to grab some dinner.
Tags: cafe society, Sylt, walking
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Observed and reported…
I spied:
The dapper retiree at the Atlantic Avenue bus stop carefully transferring the contents of a pint bottle of vodka into two bottles of blue Gatorade in anticipation of some kind of festive afternoon.
Long lines of Park Slope and Heights yuppies and their spawn at every boutique ice cream parlor I passed.
The lid of your laptop has become the pedestrian bumper, home to every sort of smash-the-state community-action-now sticker. This helps flashing messages of social engagement across the gulf of tables at cafes, even though the users of said laptops are only digitally engaged at the moment of use.
A guy with the logo to the Vin Diesel/Ice Cube “XXX” films tattooed across the back of his neck right below his shaved head. That will wear well.
After deciding to sit in back of the tumbledown yard of the cafe, my book reading was interrupted by rustling in the leaves next to me. I looked over and saw a grey, furred back churning beneath the foliage. It was definitely a rodent, but I decided that I didn’t want to stick around long enough to discern whether a rat or a squirrel. I gathered my book, my iced coffee and my groceries and beat a quick retreat.
All in all about five miles traversed.
Tags: brooklyn, cafe society, daily photo, walk
