If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. – Charles Dickens Distance: 5.5 miles Neighborhoods traversed: Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights, Park Slope Number of streets/blocks crossed: 79 Number of avenues crossed: 8 Musical accompaniment: Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes (all photo captions are song lyrics) Purpose: Transportation,… Continue reading I Went Walking Far From Home
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Letter to Big Ron (a.k.a. Dad)
Hi Big Ron (a.k.a Dad) How’re you? Me? I’m good. You know, same old. So listen, I’ve got something I wanted to tell you. Here goes: I’ve been to a couple ballgames already this year – you know there’s nothing better than live ball – but there’s a hitch. They weren’t Yankee games. They were… Continue reading Letter to Big Ron (a.k.a. Dad)
Back from Austria
Hi kids I’m back? Did you miss me? Aw…I missed you too! Kisses! So I spent the week in Vienna and Salzburg and I saw amazing things like this: and this: And we went to the Mozart’s birthplace: and stood in the room he was born in and saw the house he died in and… Continue reading Back from Austria
And then Twitter blew up over a poem
Came across this today on twitter via xkcd while reading about everyone freaking out about a poem that Amanda Palmer wrote that might maybe sort of involve seeing people as complex and not just “bad guys” vs “good guys” (though mostly everyone screamed that she was anti-american and should go shave her pits) and I thought… Continue reading And then Twitter blew up over a poem
American Games
On the train, he reads the paper glancing at the headline about the nineteen year old boy who brought a city to its knees until they found him bloody hiding in a boat. And then American won again, the way we always promise we will win. He reads parts of the article aloud whistling… Continue reading American Games
Ally Malinenko 