esquared
ee-- those are my initials
a polite New Yorker you'll never meet.
Living my life in contradiction in New York, New York
-- a city that is so nice gentrified, they named it twice.
e-mail: e2the2ndpwr[at]gmail[dot]com
(i’ll be more like somewhere in Route 87N by the time this posts)
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“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was — I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I’d never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn’t know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds.”
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 1, Ch. 3
T.G.I. Friday's and Tim Hortons to join the growing list of big retail chains taking up residence in Union Square.
Other big-name retailers moving into the trendy neighborhood include Nordstrom Rack and Best Buy.
[Crain’s]
Well, once they’ve moved in, neighborhood won’t be trendy anymore. Yup, welcome to NYC the suburbs.
[not via queque — blogging from the boondocks. it’s boring up here. i’ve told myself not to bring my laptop, to enjoy nature, but i guess i’m just hooked on tumblr. will be hiking in a few. enjoy.]
“New York Photographs,” a summertime tribute to the greatest city on earth by a group of Manhattan photography dealers, is a reminder of the endless churn of dark and light, innocence and experience that surrounds all of us in the city at every moment.
Margaret Bourke-White’s 1930 photograph of the Statue of Liberty.
via darklamb:
(re-blogging via queue)“I think I meant it more as an indictment of American life in the 1950s. Because during the Fifties there was a general lust for conformity all over this country, by no means only in the suburbs — a kind of blind, desperate clinging to safety and security at any price, as exemplified politically in the Eisenhower administration and the Joe McCarthy witchhunts. Anyway, a great many Americans were deeply disturbed by all that — felt it to be an outright betrayal of our best and bravest revolutionary spirit — and that was the spirit I tried to embody in the character of April Wheeler. I meant the title to suggest that the revolutionary road of 1776 had come to something very much like a dead end in the Fifties.”
~ Richad Yates from Henry, DeWitt and Clark, Geoffrey. “An Interview with Richard Yates,” Ploughshares, Winter, 1972.
(Replace Eisenhower with Bloomberg and this is pretty much what his administration has done to NYC— suburbinization and the lust for conformity)
[via queue]
![Which Mad Man are you?[tumbling via queue]](http://s380.photobucket.com/albums/oo241/esquared_e2/?action=view¤t=whcihmadmenareyou.jpg)
![Mad Men’s first episode is to be simulcast in Times Square after a costume party where fans can parade their retro wardrobes. This promotional event is Woodstock, corporate style, with martinis instead of marijuana, Sinatra instead of Shankar and narrow ties supplanting the tie-dyed.[NYT]
“Hell its already a mad house in Times Square right now with the Broadway only allowing pedestrian traffic lower than 47th so with the fans of the shows, the camera’s and tourists mixing it oughta be a hell of an event to witness.
(Tumbling from the neck of the woods up here by yours truly)](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kohxlhZDIM1qzq6gio1_400.jpg)
Mad Men’s first episode is to be simulcast in Times Square after a costume party where fans can parade their retro wardrobes. This promotional event is Woodstock, corporate style, with martinis instead of marijuana, Sinatra instead of Shankar and narrow ties supplanting the tie-dyed.
[NYT]
“Hell its already a mad house in Times Square right now with the Broadway only allowing pedestrian traffic lower than 47th so with the fans of the shows, the camera’s and tourists mixing it oughta be a hell of an event to witness.
(Tumbling from the neck of the woods up here by yours truly)
Don’t You Forget About Me, Simple Minds
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Off to the Adirondacks and Montreal (and maybe Vermont). See ya when I see ya. Have a good one.
Steven Spielberg’s 1975 thriller “Jaws” surfaces tonight and tomorrow at midnight
@Landmark’s Sunshine Cinema
143 East Houston Street on the Lower East Side
