Happy Labor Day
It took a whole lot of labor to build this thing.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Don’t get sunburned, eat too much, or too drunk today. I got all those things out of the way yesterday, during and after the Tugboat Race on the Hudson.
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It certainly did. But the building leaves me totally uninspired. THIS meh-design is what replaced the Twin Towers?
georgetheatheist...commenting critically
September 2, 2013 at 6:24 pm
Y’know, its actually kind of grown on me
Mitch Waxman
September 2, 2013 at 7:44 pm