Last week I took an express train off the reservation, and landed in Coney Island. It only takes about an hour from downtown Manhattan. Coney Island’s main foreshore area Located on the far eastern tip of Brooklyn, naturally Coney Island is not actually an island but a peninsular, although many lifetimes ago (up until the … Continue reading Journey through a timewarp – to the twilight zone
The point of terrorism is not to “destroy.” It is to terrify. And for eight and a half years now, the dominant federal government response to terrorist threats and attacks has been to magnify their harm by increasing a mood of fear and intimidation… New York in these past two days has shown the alternative. … Continue reading New Yorkers show the rest of America how to respond to terrorism
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdRaf3 Hot! The new LCD Soundsystem video for the single “Drunk Girls” from their forthcoming album This Is Happening. While the band will tour the album for the next 18 months, this will be the last ever LCD Soundsystem album, which you can listen to here. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) Continue reading
So the temperature had been plummeting all day (it’s amazing the temperature variations between days here, sometimes 15’ Celsius) and in the afternoon it started snowing. Well I’ve been in snow before – on a mountain, which seems like the natural place for it – but seeing snow swirling down in a kaleidoscope of wind … Continue reading White mischief in Manhattan
