Katherine Sharpe | a pilgrim’s blogress

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Posts from July 2008

On Blogging

As I was just telling Meg, I now have Google Analytics installed. So I can track this blog’s meteoric surge in popularity, of course.


Zuboff on ‘the Frozen Economy’

I’m digging Shoshana Zuboff’s column in Business Week (actually, to my surprise, I’m finding a lot of swell stuff to read in Business Week) about observing the economic panic of her neighbors in Maine.
She invokes the Great Depression and dramatically, but also bravely, she proposes opening our conversation about the economy way, way up:
"Discontinuous change [...]


Posted
25 July 2008 @ 10am

Tagged
Travel

Honduras Bound

In less than three days, I am leaving for a week in Honduras. I’m going to Copan RuĂ­nas, a small town near the border of Guatemala and El Salvador. It’s renowned for its Mayan ruins and its international backpackers. I figure if it’s too expensive to go to Europe, I might as well go to [...]


No Parking

Another Greenpoint sign. On a construction site at Driggs and McGuinness Blvd.


The Lover: Favorite Passage

"…I never fall asleep right away despite the new fatigues in my life. I think about the man from Cholon. He’s probably in a nightclub somewhere near the Fountain with his driver, they’ll be drinking in silence, they drink arrack when they’re on their own. Or else he’s gone home, he’s fallen asleep with the [...]


Posted
21 July 2008 @ 9am

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Images, NYC

Moto Guzzi @ Matchless

Signs have been speaking to me recently. Here’s the Moto Guzzi logo painted onto the outer wall at Matchless . Left over from its days as a real machine shop, I think.


Posted
17 July 2008 @ 9am

Tagged
Images, NYC

Die, Yuppie Scum

Here’s a motto I haven’t seen in a while.
Hand-lettered posterboard on a phone booth on Avenue A, near 9th Street, Manhattan. A nice, warm July night, walking past the new, happy, safer Tompkins Square Park.
Update: It seems like the sign could have been a leftover from John Penley’s “Die, Yuppie Scum” rally in the East [...]


Just the Few of Us…

I just finished reading Rusell Shorto’s “Childless Europe” cover story in the NYTimes magazine. I don’t know what it says about me—maybe that it’s time for me to take a vacation from New York City—but I find the idea of a country with fewer people appealing. A little extra space, a little extra time, patterns [...]


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