Monthly Archives: September 2004

Glass and Steel

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Glass and steel showroom / office building that sits on the space that was once a car wash / gas station.

Chrystie Street

Sarah Roosevelt Park. It’s amazingly peaceful considering the construction on Chrystie Street, and the morning rush traffic on Houston Street. Someone was shooting solitary hoop and a few scattered individuals were doing Tai Chi like exercises. In years past it was really shabby and drugged out. I’d walk past as briskly as possible. Click to see larger version of this panorama.

Construction crane. I’ve been trying to get a photo that really conveys the size of this monster for weeks. It often hangs horizontally over Houston Street. If I get far enough away to show the whole crane, all the detail, white against the sky, goes missing in a pixel smush. Earlier in the GammaBlaBlogBrowse: Construction in the GammaBlaBlog

The covered walkway, in front of the construction, smells like urinal cake.

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I want him to go AWOL again

Randi Rhodes, ex Air Force mechanic, explaning today why she is not upset about Bush’s military record: “Nothing went wrong for the country while he was AWOL. I want him to go AWOL again.”

Ex-Feds Blast 9-11 Panel and Bush

Ex-Feds Blast 9-11 Panel and Bush by James Ridgeway

“…security measures in his agency were “little more than window dressing,” and quoted one frustrated colleague as saying, “The FAA is so screwed up I don’t know where to begin.”"

Sue Niederer

Sue Niederer, 55, of Hopewell, N.J., got handcuffed, arrested and charged with a crime for daring to challenge the Bush policy in Iraq, where her son, Army First Lt. Seth Dvorin, 24, died in February while attempting to disarm a bomb. - No Stars, Just Cuffs By MAUREEN DOWD

An Interview with Sue Niederer in Conterpunch, May 22, 2004

Infoshop interview, Sept 1, 2004.

Sunday Walk

"Please don’t eat me… I Love you."

The remnants of hurricane Ivan blew through here yesterday cracking spectacular lightning, leaving the sky today bright blue, and the air cool and clean.

Beautiful women were on the streets of the East Village.

In front of the Con Ed substation on Avenue A.
95% certainty, an artist back from a hike to Pearl Paint. In the background is the Gracefully deli at the base of the old Burger Klein furniture store.
Not a detention center, a parking lot. Houston Street, near the tour-bus friendly Katz’s Deli on Ludlow Street.

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