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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
“When I had no lover, I courted my sleep.”
Thanks to the marvels of the internet, I’ve just tracked down a poem that I have wanted to re-read since sophomore year of college. I remembered only the name, "Samurai Song," and the venue, The New Yorker . Granted, having known those two things, it wouldn’t have been all that hard to find. But in [...]
If You Want to Be Looked At Longingly on the Subway,
then I recommend picking up a copy of Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Lover’ as your something-sensational-to-read-on-the-train. It’s not the effect I was going for—it’s just the book that called to me most loudly from the ‘summer reading’ 10% off rack at McNally Robinson, swear—but I thought the phenomenon too interesting and, frankly, too pronounced not to [...]
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