Wednesday, March 8th 2006

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EvilGentleman: I hope while you were lying on the sidewalk taking this shot, that these things did not happen: - Someone mistook you for a corpse and went through your pockets - Someone drew a chalk outline around you - You got run over by a skateboard - You came face-to-face with a rabid raccoon -...

in response to Vanderbilt Avenue by Night

Arsaniq: Yeah Evil G., Bout those Mac cochons or are they canadian bacon & donuts ! trash needs greese as oil attracks bush king ! What's the Mac phone number so I can tell them and bush king to Mac de f* off; it's my oil they're waisting in my atmosphere...

in response to I Thought I Said Hold the Spit

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Very Citizen Kane. Nice shot.

in response to Vanderbilt Avenue by Night

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Jeeff's a furry. Or an owlie. Whatever. You're still cool in my book. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_lifestyler

in response to What The?

Liz: # 52 ticket booth workers who don't say "your welcome" when I say "please" and "thank you"

in response to Things I Hate About... Public Transit

someguy: i gotta second jack submitting some text. his writings always amuse me to no end. i read this site all teh time and never participate. im a major lurker. but i had to come out of the shadows to second the prompt for jack to write!

in response to Things I Hate About... Public Transit

EvilGentleman: Actually mark, I count only 4 or 5 items on this list that are subway-specific, and about the same number are bus-specific, and the rest are based mostly on the behaviour of the other passengers. In the interests of preserving the pedantism that jack and I are striving for, let me...

in response to Things I Hate About... Public Transit

EvilGentleman: No matter how open-minded or compassionate I may consider myself to be, I am ashamed to realize that I have never actually thought about the fact that the events of that September day have been burned forever into the memory and consciousness of the millions of people in New York...

in response to Kinematics

Peter: exactly. yeah that lot was an easy shortcut!

in response to Astor Place Silhouette

mark: Well I know most of these are all about the subway, but here's one for the many bus drivers out there. Drivers who insist on letting enough air build up to power a small mini into orbit and then dump there massive exchange as they pull up along side you...

in response to Things I Hate About... Public Transit

skippy: wat the fuckin hell is rong wit belfast?? wer are livin in a new century n people stil fightin over things dat can be fixed over fones n tlkin rather than guns???? a fone call is cheaper than a gun? who agrees?

in response to Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill

kc: yeah, he used to set up on the sidewalk, tho...did he go entirely? Sigh. Truth to tell, I miss the parking lot! Can't really explain it. I enjoyed the minor trespass of walking through it for a tiny shortcut, which they never used to prevent, unlike the one on...

in response to Astor Place Silhouette

michelle: What comes around goes around. It didn't stay Polish, Italian and German. It won't stay Puerto Rican either. Humboldt Park community was incorporated into the City of Chicago in 1869, the same year that saw the creation of the 207 acre park named after Alexander Von Humboldt. The area was...

in response to Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better

groovehouse: "capturer" - that would be me! Thanks!

in response to Yellow Dojo

kc: could be savoring the memory....or maybe it's a Beetle and the vase broke. nice within the arc of dirt...

in response to Dead Rose on Dashboard

kc: My favorite was...uh...10, garbage that rolls. There's always that sense of apprehension---you hear it, it's coming, what is it, is it leaking...

in response to Things I Hate About... Public Transit

Peter: do tell, jeeff.

in response to What The?

jeeff: i have held that very costume, tho i didn't wear it. i wore the owl one instead.

in response to What The?

Peter: ahh good points! i just miss the seedy dude in the van that used to sell "used porn" in the parking lot that used to occupy that space ;) hahahahaha.

in response to Astor Place Silhouette

kc: Hey, Peter. Nice shot. I do kinda hate that building...although maybe more than anything I hate the signs for the incredibly expensive apartments and the giant bank facing down the cube--hard not to believe they'll be wanting to crack down on the street life from in there. On the other...

in response to Astor Place Silhouette

Peter: 52: people who fart just before getting off of the train.

in response to Things I Hate About... Public Transit

anon (208.38.59.79): My number 1 pet peeve : Complete strangers who will sit next to you and blather on for the whole bus ride about the most ridiculouse things or mumble so that you have to strain to hear them (so as to not appear to not care about them )...

in response to Things I Hate About... Public Transit

Jamie: well scanned

in response to Dead Rose on Dashboard

jeeff: ha, cool. i lived in a building with a pool on the roof, 27 floors up. the pool was enclosed (glass walls and ceiling) but you could sunbathe outside. it was really nice, minus the creepy pervs in the men's change room.

in response to Astor Place Silhouette

Peter: there is a building in my old neighborhood, on the upper west side, that houses a healthclub on the 7th floor. and wonder of wonders, they have a pool there! there are apartments all around it, save for below it, which is a solid wall, which im sure is the...

in response to Astor Place Silhouette

Lily: Thank you for the information. I agree with anon. I was born in Bushwick, I am now 17 years old. Bushwick has drastically changed and will continue. I think that the whole viewpt that b/c there's hispanics there is what makes it such a bad neigborhood. Is such a...

in response to My House in Bushwick

elaine: probably. i would like it if it was a gravity defying swimming pool.

in response to Astor Place Silhouette

Peter: i have it. every so often, when i move or rearrange, it turns up. in a box. on a shelf, under the desk, in the nightstand drawer... i do not display it or make any issue of it, i do not take photos of it or think of it often...

in response to Kinematics

Peter: ...in that regard, you might like reading this entry.

in response to Video Stills of the Pre-9/11 New York

gringo: a lost, dying love?

in response to Dead Rose on Dashboard

Peter: yeah, persecution sucks. and it turns into a immensley hard-to-swallow bite when it includes race, gender, age, preference and religion all at once.

in response to chicago gay pride parade

speakeasy: I am a south african, far away from your beautiful land. looking at your photographs invoked a dreadful feeling of sadness within my soul. i write in all lower case bacause of the magnitude of your losses. it seems somewhat respectful it seems only fair to write this way,...

in response to Video Stills of the Pre-9/11 New York

Peter: i imagined it slowly and menacingly rolling through the east village, using its windows to condense/reflect/focus sunlight into death-ray beams that it will use to decimate any non post-post-postmodern architecture whilst zapping all the area hipsters and art school students! oy. ive been reading too much cyberpunk :/ ROBOTS!

in response to Astor Place Silhouette

speakeasy: hey bud! another hard day in Canada? Wanna try SA for starters?

in response to Nap Time

speakeasy: wow!!! damn fine photography!! love it...

in response to Alleyways and Chairs

anon (ctb-cache4-vif1.saix.net): simply stunning.... so simple yet so beautiful!!! compliments to the "capturer" of such splendor!

in response to Yellow Dojo

Biff: Three weeks after Valentine's Day...

in response to Dead Rose on Dashboard

elaine: i do too. there are two very scruffy dog sculptures in viccy park, but i can't find any photos, although i remember taking them. i hereby promise to take these photos again again again until i do it right

in response to Promontory Point

steve: freedom of religion All men are created equal What does the divorce rate show, concerning the sanctity of marriage The Jews were persecuted The blacks were persecuted, Now it is politically incorrect to say are do anything cruel towards them , NOT TO MENTION ILLEGAL! Gay people are the only...

in response to chicago gay pride parade

elaine: i like that swimmingpool-bot building

in response to Astor Place Silhouette

Peter: kc: speaking of the high-rises... how about that terrible new modern/glass condo there? (see this entry)...

in response to Hockey Silhouette

kc: are both those buildings the gifts of NYU? Geez. I know that spot, but I did a double take when you said Astor Place, the high rises....a changed neighborhood. but I see it. a sports robot building!

in response to Hockey Silhouette

kc: reminds me I want to go there one day. I like that sleeping dog sculpture in the snow!

in response to Promontory Point

Jamie: you could get into some real trouble for taking photos of small girls, ha

in response to Saturday

gringa latina: Well, here I am again. I wrote my last post in Spanish I guess as a sign of respect to all of the latino residents of Humboldt Park and to write as a "white woman" from a perspective of fear and confusion but also openess and honesty. ...

in response to Humboldt Park

gringa latina: Hola, muy buenas. Hace dos anos llegue a Chicago desde Madrid. He vivido de alquiler en varios barrios de la ciudad pero siempre me gusto Humboldt Park. El ano pasado fui con unos amigos a la fiesta Puertoriquena y me lo pase muy bien. me recordaba mucho a...

in response to Humboldt Park

Elicar: What happened to Charles??? Is he still around? Toss those shoes up after St. Patrick's day. Someone may need a green pair.

in response to Homage to Old Shoes

Elicar: I remember when I was a kid. My mother bought the same outfits for myself and my two other sisters, just in different sizes. I guess, to prevent jealousy amongst siblings. Needless to say, we all looked alike!

in response to Saturday

Elicar: I prefer Bora-bora!

in response to Key Food Blues

joey: yeah, the glass is now totally empty

in response to Customer Parking

joey: looks home made

in response to Staircase

joey: jack's got a good idea. every one on the site can meet mid way- in some place like iowa.

in response to Key Food Blues

Elicar: I have always loved the water Nomad. I have this picture in my mind that my retirement home would be on a cliff overlooking a sandy beach. But that's a long, long way away. Jack, you are very sweet! Here's more for you!

in response to Water, Water, Water Everywhere...

Adam: good call Ken, to each, there own...

in response to He Got My Attention!

jack: great urban pic.

in response to Staircase

jack: it is a very disturbing site. all the people are young. and young people are the ones who die in a war. i was south of berlin and our job was to get to berlin within 45 minutes by helicopter and jump right into a war. ...

in response to Memorial to Berlin Wall Deaths

jack: hey what you say you guys get together.

in response to Key Food Blues

jack: sorry but i dont know his name. it was an incident at the wall and this kid tried to escape. the ruskies shot him and he hung on the wire.

in response to Berlin Museum

xep: hey i looked at that picture and before even reading the post, I thought "hamster shoes!!!" that's one of my favorite stories ever. this is a fitting ending.

in response to Homage to Old Shoes

A student: hhello there i am enjoying a nice cup of korean coffee and petting my dog lilach right now p.s. i am korean

in response to Urban Decay

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