Archive for June 29th, 2023
Getting there
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
As mentioned yesterday, my buddy was doing an appearance at a comic convention in Downtown Pittsburgh. He’s a bit of a star, and the convention organizers put him up in a hotel for the show. The shot above is the view from a hotel room window on its twenty something’s floor.
Our Lady of the Pentacle and myself joined him and his spouse for dinner and drinks, leaving the car back home in Dormont so that a humble narrator could imbibe. We took the T Light Rail into town, and called for a cab afterwards.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
It’s been a while since someone else was doing the driving for me here in Pittsburgh, so I took the opportunity of being in a ride share LYFT car to shoot pix out of the open window on our way home afterwards. The sun sets a bit later hereabouts than it did back home. It’s weird seeing it light out at 9 p.m., but there you go.
I’m absolutely fascinated by the web of off and on ramps here in Pittsburgh, which had been mentioned in the past. All of those curvilinear massing shapes…
– photo by Mitch Waxman
One realizes that he’s likely the only person on earth who sees a high speed road and says ‘ooh, look at them parabolas,’ but that’s me. I’m like the Kiwi – a fuzzy little fruit with a lot of personality and quirks.
As always, back tomorrow.
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