Today I walked the earth, like Caine in Kung Fu.

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I was saying that Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery was looking barely tended and has crumbling roads lately. Well: "Board Members of Non-Profit Cemetery Embezzled Thousands of Dollars." Thousands? Hundreds of thousands. This ticks me off so much.

"Forest Hills Resident Climbs Unisphere to Highlight Climate Crisis," hangs a banner over Brazil.

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"City vows to fix bike lanes around the new span of the Kosciuszko BridgeSometimes I think NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer is one of the few people in office in NYC who has even a lick of common sense. Everything he has to say here is completely right and should've been done before the opening ( Read more... )

The second, final span of the Kosciuszko Bridge will be opening to traffic on Thursday, four years earlier than expected. I still don't love the modern look of the two spans--since my heart remains with the old-school metal truss bridge it had been from 1939-2017, partly because it looks more atmospheric in my shots of First Calvary Cemetery--but I ( Read more... )

The 12 Monkeys series finale wrecked me. In good ways. So many callbacks, so many things linked in, including from season one. ( spoilers )

Hannibal Lecter, Book Collector, An Illustrated Lecture with Elisabeth Brander, Rare Book Librarian at Washington University
Date: Thursday, October 8th
Time: 8 p.m.
Admission: $8 (Tickets HereLocation: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn ( Read more... )

A while back I linked you to photos of the amazing Loew's Valencia, one of the five Wonder Theaters created in the late 1920s, now the Tabernacle of Prayer but still intact and beautiful. Now another of the Wonder Theaters, the Loew's Kings Theater, has been beautifully restored, and here are some photos.

I've been in massive pain most of this week due to very cold temperatures and bad weather, and thus my endurance for... anything, driving, staying awake, concentrating hasn't been at its best. I haven't been writing, I haven't been doing much of anything aside from sleeping ( Read more... )

The only good thing about the commercial for that I Origins movie is that it briefly shows one of my favorite Green-Wood Cemetery monuments. Hellooooo, Maben angel. ::points to icon::

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