Archive for October 14th, 2016
down slanting
Here today and gone tomorrow, in today’s post.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
A humble narrator, as previously stated, needs a vacation.
Actually, it’s a change of scene I require. My daily rounds often take me to locations which are awe inspiring, or terrifying, but ultimately I’d like to see and record something different – just for a change of pace. Kittens? I just don’t know anymore. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, as the pundits opine, and I’d like to photograph something entirely absent of tugboats, industrial squalor, and sewer plants – just for a minute, mind you. Maybe a walk in the woods or something.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The good news is that after this weekend’s Open House New York tour is concluded one will be free on the weekends again. I’m thinking about following the lead offered by Ratso and Joe Buck in the Midnight Cowboy movie and buying a random bus ticket at Port Authority and seeing where Greyhound might want to take me for a day trip.
Of course – knowing my luck, I’ll randomly end up in industrial Newark or Philadelphia, or some rust belt city in western New York. You can take the boy out of the superfund site, but…
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Perhaps it’s just ennui. Bah.
Winter is coming, and ultimately, Carthage must be destroyed.
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