Archive for March 29th, 2024
Rain scuttling
Friday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
A few odds and ends from a rainy day walk in Pittsburgh for today.
The shot above depicts the scene from a section of the metro area called ‘Uptown.’ The skyscrapers rising out of the mist are in ‘Downtown,’ and it was everything I could do to not break out into a song from the catalogue of the ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ theatrical production.
At the end of the walk, my companion used his phone to calculate our mileage between the two parked cars, which ended up being something in the neighborhood of seven miles – if memory serves. My ‘Mobile Oppression Platform’ was waiting for us downtown, whereas his ‘two ton murder machine’ was behind us in Oakland.
I hope to never be unthankful to the good people of NYC’s Transportation Alternatives lobbying operation for introducing many hyperbolic terms to my vocabulary. A favorite from the last months I served as the Transportation Committee Chair for the Astoria community board was that when a driver placed a key into the ignition of a motor vehicle, they were entering into a state of ‘pre murder.’ Two wheels good, four wheels bad, just ask ‘em.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Speaking of murder, there’s a new Facebook group that’s sprung up which calls itself ‘Death Stairs.’ It took the Pittsburgh commentariot about three days to overwhelm the moderators, and entirely take over the group.
This lonely collection of ‘rises and runs,’ which led from ‘nowhere’ to ‘somewhere else you don’t want to go,’ captured our attentions when we walked past them and they demanded a shot or two.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
That’s the Birmingham Bridge, connecting Pittsburgh’s peninsular section to the ‘South Side’ across the Monongahela River. There’s a few posts which I’ve offered about the span in the archives, including one where I walked over the thing. It’s a neat bridge.
Back with something different, from the Paris of Appalachia, at this – your Newtown Pentacle – next week.
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