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  • An Angry Telephone Eating a Person (Statue)

    8th Avenue / 14th Street Subway Statues, a set on Flickr. There are quite a few different statues (not sure what else to call them) located in the subway station at 8th Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC, but this is one of my favorites. He’s right down on the platform where the uptown…

  • Are We There Yet? When is Spring Coming?

    This winter has been really long and unpleasant. Every time the snow on the ground is about to melt, we get hit with another snowstorm. This morning, I was excited that the weather was warming up. Today it got up to 54 (a heat wave!) and tomorrow it will be 53, but then I saw…

  • Subway Performer With Trombone and Beat Track

    We saw this guy at the A train platform on 14th Street. He wasn’t doing much at first, but when he got going he sounded good. He had the speakers producing a beat track that he was able to tweak using pedals on the ground in front of him. The way he played his trombone…

  • Obsessive Compulsive About Blog Organization

    I was just looking through some old posts and I realized that I moved this blog from Google’s Blogger to self-hosted WordPress more than a year ago. During that process, a lot of the images didn’t transfer properly. There are just broken image placeholders in a lot of the posts, which is really a shame…

  • People Who Put Their Shoes on the Seats in Trains and Buses

    I really don’t get why people do this. Do they think it’s cute? Or do they just not care that other people will want to sit on the seats without getting filth from the streets on their clothing? I’m guessing both. This was one of four times I saw someone do this in a single…

  • Stage Restaurant

    About two weeks ago we went to a place called Stage Restaurant, a Ukrainian and Polish restaurant at 128 2nd Ave in Manhattan. I can’t believe it’s been that long already. With classes going, time is flying by. We wound up in Stage because we were looking for a place to take my mother for a late…

  • Weekend Adventure: The East Coast Chamber Orchestra & Rescuing Cheesecake

    The Orchestra Saturday we attended a synagogue service and ran into an acquaintance of ours who had two tickets for an orchestral performance he wasn’t going to be able to attend. He didn’t want to waste them by throwing them out, so he gave the tickets to me and my wife. I imagine he wasn’t…

  • Spiritual Sounds Interfaith Recitation and Music at Town & Village Synagogue

    We went to an interfaith recitation and music event at the Town & Village Synagogue on 14th Street in Manhattan last Thursday. Every year, the event is held at a different venue, and this time it was T&V Synagogue’s turn to host the event. I don’t mean to say the hosting is thought of in…

  • Scary Guy with Cherry-Red Eyes at Rite Aid

    My wife and I went to Rite Aid earlier to pick up some supplies for the week and while we were pondering the cat food choices this guy walked up to us and said to my wife, “Excuse me miss, do you know where the pad locks are? The locks that spin, that turn, with…

  • Stolen Package Drama

    Somehow I’m not surprised, both at the UPS person’s incompetence and the theft.