Happy Nose Ember to the handful of folks who witnessed my internet peak

Judging from the light and the train off in the distance, it’s de Chirico o’clock

IRT 2, South Bronx, NYC (1979)
Photo: Danny Lyon / MoMA

@sk76 so much going on in this photo. the subway car looks as lived in as a tenement apartment. the boredom/fatigue on nearly every face. almost everyone has either a book or a newspaper. the subway ads trying to stand out among wall to wall graffiti.

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: except everything, building rn, burgers, theorists of all persuasions, putrescence, flicker

Subway thoughts: my first cinematic love was Speed Racer. The first auteur I was aware of was Chuck Jones.

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: PlayStation controller, of course, baja blast, likely stagger on, totally wasted, sinister magnificence, bruise of a story, guilt

Day 62. The skunk has not returned. I posted in missed connections but I suspect this is not an online skunk.

As a kid I always wondered who this Robert Moses could be. It wasn’t until I was in my 20’s that I discovered and read The Power Broker and learned what had really been going on behind the spectacle. The gulf between my childhood perception and the reality of the enormous machine he operated still staggers me.

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.