July 2009
10 posts
I know I'm a hiptser when...
I’m sitting in a cafe in Williamsburgh with not much better to do that to post on tumblr and after about a half hour of listening to what they’ve been playing in the cafe - Greenday - I reach a breaking point and decide to listen to Grizzly Bear on my ipod.
hobnob
I used the gerund of the verb bob as in “bobbing for apples” at an interview in the sentence “I’m used to bobbing with the bigwigs in Poughkeepsie.” While the phrase “bobbing with the bigwigs” makes for a not unpleasant alliteration the word “hobnob” in its gerund form “hobnobing” is clearly the better fit. Although the word looks...
“His eyes entered everything like a needle even yet - punctured, looped, and then...”
– - Bill Gass, Omensetter’s Luck, 1965.
For whatever reason this image has been sticking with me. I really want to take a photo of an old man dressed in period clothes wearing a necklace of photos around his neck. He would be reclining like the canonized corpse of a century dead saint....
I found thirtyish photos. They are stark and...
Ladders
Glenwood
I’ve been considering taking on Glenwood Luxury Apartment Complexes in “the upper east side from 86th to 92nd street, the east side from 72nd street to 96th street, Murray Hill from 39th Street to 59th Street on the east side, below 39th street including Tribeca and the Financial District, and North of 59th Street including Lincoln Center and Riverdale.” They’re not hard...
