Archive for the ‘Out & About’ category
Fragments: coffee shop
In the coffee shop, hunters stalk empty chairs and coveted places on the sofas. They strut to signal entitlement to the next space. Eye contact warns the competition while sweeping the room for openings. They respond to an emptying table quickly, elegantly disarming the competition, reclining as if destined to sit in that seat at [...]
Phthis and Phthat
Random Tuesday items: World population is now approaching 7 billion. When I was a kid, I remember that it was approaching 4 billion, and people were panicking then. We’re gonna run out of food! There won’t be enough water to drink! Now, you can use a handy real-time counter to figure out how fast we’ll [...]
Lost cat
I came across this on the Internets yesterday, and for some reason, it completely cracked me up: It’s particularly appropriate in my new neighborhood, which is packed with hipsters and other assorted cool people. There was even a casting call earlier this year for a hipster reality TV show: The Real Hipsters of Silver Lake. [...]
Stella on the Eastern Shore
Stella spent last weekend on the Eastern Shore of Virginia near Modest Town. It’s the southern part of DelMarVa for Washingtonian beach mavens. It’s about 80 miles north of Norfolk, Virgina. Stella went to university in Norfolk, England. The two areas are eerily similar. Flat and marshy. Sparsely populated. Subtly beautiful.
The Sonic Youths and Pavements at the bowl
Sonic Youth sounded like this: And Pavement sounded like this: It was a pretty wonderful night.
