Some stuff from this week’s adventures with the Minolta Maxxum 7000
Remind me to finish that story I started in 2006, dreamed about last night, and researched today. Crazy how a night’s dream can rule your day.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Up too late. Posting. From supercomputer cell phone. Trying to remember what makes me happy. Was there anything ? Activity. Motion . Sleeping on phone books tonight.
Rotary Dial Payphone, in a booth with a closing door. Island of Manhattan. April 24, 2010. Rotary Dial Payphone, Manhattan. April 24, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Yesterday I unwittingly ended up in the neighborhood of the Parc Lincoln Hotel on West 75th Street in Manhattan, that fabled hell-hole which was my first New York City residence. I make no pilgrimages to the Parc Lincoln but, despite the dismal memories I have of the place, I have no reason to avoid it [...]
I found you in that gray yard, politely brimming, policing the clearings in a stranger’s house. Listening to the radio you wanted to intercept the meaning of what was heard, the anthill-like spaces, deep, filled by the chatter of announcers, and you saw the sound fade, its colors hung. A hidden doorway threw itself open. [...]
I spent all day crying. Sitting here, on this spot, tears pouring from my face onto the desk. At about 1:30pm I said “Person, you gotta go to an emergency room.” I woke up with a thing in my eye. It felt like dirt, or an eyelash, or any of the other residues planted on [...]
Do you ever whisperblurt to yourself “Oh, I love this!” ? I do, and this weekend I kept track: Nocturnes in the morning Lynette Roberts Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler playing Chopin Me playing Brahms-Händel Variations #4, 24, & 25, and the fugue The stone bench at the northwest corner of Socrates Sculpture Park Those extra-long MTA buses [...]
Between November, 2009; and February, 2010; I scanned a bag full of old pictures from a 1950s New Hampshire family. It has only been 2 months since I finished the job but I already forgot I did it. Oh, the things I miss by neglecting to read the accumulations of my own web sites. Here [...]
