Archive for November 7th, 2024
Archives #024
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Things continue to improve for a humble narrator, who attended the first of many ‘physical therapy’ or ‘PT’ appointments yesterday. At one point, I actually stood up on both feet without any sort of brace on my busted ankle, although most of the appointment involved various stretches and exercises to get the thing working properly again. Needless to say, last night and this morning the limb is sort of angry.
These archives posts are reaching into Newtown Pentacle’s backups, and are pulling posts from this date in their respective years going back to 2009. This practice will continue until I’m back on both feet full time, and new photos and stories can be gathered.
November 7th in 2016 saw a series of photos of Astoria’s Halloween festivities presented, as captured from the old ‘local’ bar on the corner of 42nd and Broadway – the Times Square of Astoria – which I used to hang out at.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Man, I miss just being to do ‘stuff.’ It’s been fifty days since this rather crappy adventure began, but I prefer to think it in hours – as in its been 1,211 hours of constant and often overwhelming pain. There’s been no way to be ‘comfortable,’ so I’ve just had to compartmentalize the agonies. It’s an interesting part of the human brain which allows us to ignore deep wounds and fundamental problems just in the name of sleeping.
There’s always a crisis at MTA, isn’t there? This 2019 post admittedly rants a bit, but points out that they never seem to blame the management.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Luckily, I’ve got friends who have been willing to endure my company, telephonically speaking. Our Lady has been caring for me, in ways I can never pay back. A humble narrator doesn’t enjoy feeling vulnerable, and especially doesn’t like having others observe such moments.
I was already packing stuff up back at HQ in November of 2022, when I was also trying to see and photograph everything one last time. I figured it might be a good thing to leave behind some instructions for the real estate people, on stealing more of the sky in Long Island City.
Two years later this sounds a lot like ‘City of Yes,’ don’t it?
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