“The color of white paper...”

[laughingacademy]

Toward the end of True Stories, David Byrne, acting as the narrator, has a monologue about how one way to appreciate a place is to leave and come back, so you can rediscover the details that familiarity have made invisible. Doing this vicariously is almost as effective, which is why I enjoyed playing hostess to my little brother, B, who’d come up

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[redstapler]

B is dismayed that one of our old homes was demolished to create Picnic Point, but absolutely thrilled by the destruction of the grade school.

I had no idea you'd actually lived on Governor's Island.

Whoa.

That must make the Jazz Picnics all the more surreal.

[laughingacademy]

My dad was a Coastie stationed at Floyd Bennett Field, so my family lived on G.I. from 1987 to 1994. I went to junior high and high school in Manhattan, but my brother went to school on the Island for six years, then spent one year at the Lab School on the West Side before they all moved to Georgia.

Going back is a little dizzying.