My word, but the snow is ugly in New York at this point! Last night another layer of gritty proto-slush was dumped over the thawing/refreezing mess that is already heaped around my neighborhood. I could barely stop to shoot a couple of pictures of the cruft, because all iI want today is to be inside…. Continue Reading
Tag Archives: my block
Report from the hidey-hole
The blizzard has subsided. Our street has not yet been plowed, because it’s Brooklyn. So it’s quicker to trudge down the center of the street than to try to negotiate the sidewalks. At least the snow in the middle is somewhat packed down. Lehigh is struggling through drifts. I’ve been coaxing her into these orange… Continue Reading
Block party…
Tags: daily photo, my block
Two trucks in two days….
This big odd thing was in front of my door today, pumping or flushing something underneath the street. ConEd sent it out, but I have no ideas for what purpose. I’m back in the office, on what is usually a day off, trying to finish up some stuff before a teaching trip to Tennessee. Communication… Continue Reading
Forced, you think?
Cold air. A steady dry rustle from the trees on my block. Like my neighbors, I’m hauling the garbage and recycling to the curb. Clatter across the darkened street and I look up to see one of them, a man younger than me, as he shoves the bags and cans into position. We’re both a… Continue Reading
Unswept away…
As anyone in New York will tell you, autumn has come in earnest. This morning the leaves on my block were beginning to pile up, with the rain making it even harder for my fastidious neighbors to get them swept clean quickly enough. I went with some friends to drive upstate and do some fall… Continue Reading
Sit in the dark. Then go out in the dark.
Sweaty around the house today as well as outside of it. Spent most of it indoors until I heeded the siren call of the cinema and went off to see You, the Living with Thor, Ed, and Jeff. Delicious deadpan Swedes, shot in a 1970′s christmas candy color scheme. Some of the best thunder you’ll… Continue Reading
Gloaming or other people’s blogs are better than mine…
I’ve lived in my current place for almost seven years and last night I did something for the first time: sat on the stoop with a friend in the twilight. Chris came by for a chat, and since we’d tried to pull together a dinner date but it had fallen through, I hauled a couple… Continue Reading
Rodents is rodents…
Typing at Cosi. Quiet strolling through Brooklyn has given way to the crush of post-work Union Square. Their coffee is never as good as I remember it. Spent a little time in Forbidden Planet, which has greatly expanded their independent/zine comic section. I’m struck by how much intriguing self published stuff there is out there… Continue Reading
Softee is as Softee does…
So yesterday Thor came over to help me contend with the forces of It-which-must-not-be-named (the laundry), which caused us to have many trips into the sunshine of my neighborhood. He was a valiant Wash Warrior. And then, at the very moment that we were bringing in the last folded loads, we heard the tinkle of… Continue Reading