Dec 23 2007 My childhood favorite Bruce the Talking Spruce (discussed briefly in a post here called Jury Duty, I think) returns!!!! One of the kids here asked Bruce what color jacket he (the kid) was wearing, apparently to verify that he was really talking to them and was not a preprogrammed robot or whatever, and he replied that trees are color-blind. My parents reported that he sang some "Spruce Springsteen" to them while I was in the GameStop. Since we'd been standing and watching for a few minutes, my sister and I embarassedly went up to greet him after the...

One of These Days I'm Going to Leave You in Your Sleep

author: procyon : Albany, NY

I took these photos last year on the Amtrak train to Boston during Christmas break, and have been on the fence since then about posting them because of their very dubious technical merit (and lack of a city to put them in). I like them anyway, so here they are. There is a great deal of terrific, colorful graf near the railroad tracks along this route, especially in New York and Massachusetts, if I remember correctly. Unfortunately it was too hard for me to catch.

Harbor Islands

author: procyon : Boston, MA

mostly Lovells. Taken this August. warning for those with slow internet connections: contains 27 photos. robot face www.bostonislands.org/factsheet_ . . . sIslands__MMColParam=love

The Tent of Tomorrow, Revisited

author: procyon : New York, NY

on the way from Chicago to visit my boyfriend on Boston, i had a Greyhound layover of about five hours in New York City. as those who have read my previous posts may know, i'm kind of enamored of a certain partially locked-up, probably-endangered (see www.worldmonumentswatch.org/ 2008) building in Queens, so naturally my first course of action was to go visit it. the plan was to get back on the 7 afterwards and stop at as many stations as I had time--i didn't want my only destination to be someplace i'd already visited. but my duffel bag got very heavy in...

Hotel Detective

author: procyon : Lincolnwood, IL

web.archive.org/web/200105182316 . . . tp://www.purplehotel.com/ The Purple Hotel (formerly a Hyatt and a Radisson; note signage difference in archived website and current photo) is a local landmark in the north suburbs of Chicago. It has fallen into disrepair recently (mold behind the wallpaper, etc.) and is scheduled for demolition soon, so my boyfriend (who is from the north suburbs and whose family apparently went there frequently for Thanksgiving in the eighties, though he doesn't remember it) and I stopped by to visit it and document its exterior before it goes down. It was a cloudy day, and my camera is well-worn and entry-level, so some photos...

Walk Down 53rd St. Circa 4:37 PM

author: procyon : Chicago, IL

disclaimer: safety pins on backpack are because the zipper is broken and not as part of any pseudostatement closeup on the rivets: two are green, one is gold and one is rose-colored! (probably from being rubbed by people waiting for the bus) hyde park bank the building with all the cobalt tile is the former Meridian theater; last i heard it was slated to become retail space, keeping the facade all the cookie monsters piled in this cookie-monster colored van... it makes me smile every time I see it back home (not on 53rd)

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