One of the ways in which I deal with having relocated to central New York State is by considering my relationship to Binghamton as to a rich text. And, while it may be that it (as one of my cohort put it) is a rich text with multiple layers of rot, rot bespeaks the possibility of fecundity. Unfortunately, this fecundity represents the blossoming ( Read more... )

The last real and full post I put up here seems like an awfully long time ago. I wrote that one in the limbo of time between finding and apartment in Binghamton and when I actually had to move. I am writing this one sitting in the living room of my new apartment in Binghamton, amid a clutter of boxes and random stuff still for want of unpacking ( Read more... )

I've been taking pictures of graffiti for a while now. If you want to read about my views on graf you should check out this entry from last year. I have my camera with me most of the time in hope of discovering tags and work I like or just in a spot I like. For me, it is not really about the visual aesthetics of graffiti - at least not just about ( Read more... )

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Spent Friday night and most of Saturday out at Zooey's place, having a reunion of a band that never was. Amid the craziness obvious in the pictures below (in the cut) we did actually play some music and tried to work out a song or two. We stayed up until almost 6 am. . .

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I found myself on one of the new "M" trains last Thursday afternoon when nobody was around. It was eerie being on this clean and alien train in my home borough.


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( I'm not so good at the picture taking thing. . . )

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( So for a year now I been meaning to try this 12 on 12 thing. )

Because in my post called " All Over the Place. . . All Over Brooklyn. . ." I posted some pics of my old neighborhood, but none were exactly of the places I was talking about, and because I had no plans for Christmas Day itself, and thought a little George Bailey trip down memory lane might be a fun way to spend the day, this afternoon I headed out ( Read more... )