Thursday, September 30, 2010







just watched a doc. on Ed "Big Daddy" Roth that I'd seen ages ago. This time it reminded me of that time in my life when I loved cars. REALLY loved them. I still have more photos of cars than I do of people. And I remember the cars better than the men who drove them. Which probably says more about me than about the men in question. That said, while I long ago sold off/gave away my Rat Fink/Ed Roth/Rbt. Williams collection, I do, still have photos of some of those beautiful cars. Which I will try to find and post here. Another thing I missed out on living in NYC all these years - I've never owned a car. Doesn't stop me from wanting one. Though at this point, it's likely I'll never have one & if I do? it'll be something practical like a hybrid. or a Jeep. or a Volvo. And not a '54 Chevy. with flames. and pinstriping.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Mt. Taurus


bridge #1 and bridge #2 - or what's left of them.

Mt. Taurus - abandoned house

Mt. Taurus

Friday I went to Otto's Shrunken Head to see Empire Vista - interesting & Otto's is always a fun time. Saturday I met up with a friend and we hiked Mt. Taurus (near Cold Spring). We got a LATE start due to massive traffic all the way on 9 but even starting at 3:15, we still made it back down to the trailhead before sunset. The trail itself (white blaze up, white then blue blaze down) is in better shape & better marked on the way up, and in lousy shape (2 bridges out, lots of damage to the trail itself) on the way down. It wasn't overly crowded (probably due to the heat - 87 degrees?) and the views were amazing. I'm hoping to get back up there once the leaves have turned for even more glorious views. Sunday was the 7th annual Walt Whitman "Song of Myself" marathon reading. I read sections 4, 22, and the final section, #52. It was a good mix of people again although the organization itself was lacking - having us first go to the barque Peking and then back to the Museum and then back again and...you get the idea. It was pretty frustrating but once we got started, aside from a few people who really shouldn't read aloud in public ever, it was really great. Overall, made for a well-rounded weekend though I would love to have been one of the 2 people we saw heading out for a long backpacking trek on Saturday. Maybe just stay out there until it starts to snow? no?

Mt. Taurus end of the trail

Friday, September 24, 2010

winner every race


no. I didn't go on the Ferris wheel. but I sure wanted to...

(c) Danny Lyon

found this in a box in storage. now it's back on my fridge where it belongs.

Thursday, September 23, 2010


buffalo, ny

(c) Nathan Kensinger

north bro. island, ny

home?


(c) Will Sherman

brooklyn basement


or Mines of Moria?

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

52 books in 52 weeks

I'm woefully behind on my reading this year. apparently.
updated list - 52 books in 52 weeks:

1. drift/victoria patterson
2. once the shore/paul yoon (sp? gave it away so can't look it up)
3. sense & sensibility & sea monsters
4. point omega/delillo
5. face/sherman alexie (poems
6. war dances/sherman alexie
7. Inspector Alleyn Calls (3 novels)/Ngaio Marsh
8. Nevermore (a graphic adaptation of Poe's short stories)
9. off the reservation/paula gunn allen
10. neither here nor there/marcel jolley
11. the passion/j. winterson (2nd/3rd? read)
12. tapping the source/kem nunn
13. the dogs of winter/kem nunn
14. breathe/tim winton
15. dirt music/tim winton
16. the particular sadness of lemon cake/aimee bender
17. solar/ian m.
18. hell/robert olen butler
19. rat girl/kristin hersh
20. nights at the circus/angela carter
21. invisible cities/calvino
23. tinkers/paul harding
24. diary of a bad year/coetzee
25. the boy detective fails/joe meno
26. brooklyn/colm toibin
27. on the nat. history of dest./sebald
28. let the great world spin/colum mccann
29. zoli/colum mccann
30. unquiet mind/kay jamison
31. by night in chile/bolano
32. inherent vice/pynchon
33. the third elevator/aimee bender
34. the signal/ron carlson
35. essential/kathy acker (re-read)

Monday, September 20, 2010

DOD Death announcements 9/1-9/20/10

Spc. Joshua A. Harton, 23, of Bethlehem, Penn., died Sept. 18 in Kaftar Khan, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms and rocket propelled grenade fire. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.

Maj. Paul D. Carron, 33, of Mo. died Sept. 18 at Qalat, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained in a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany.

Pfc. Barbara Vieyra, 22, of Mesa, Ariz., died Sept. 18 of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked her unit using an improvised explosive device and rocket propelled grenade fire inKunar province, Afghanistan. She was assigned to the 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas.

Spc. Timothy L. Johnson, 24, of Randolph, N.Y., died Sept. 16 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device atArghandab River Valley, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.

The following soldiers died in the Zhari district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky. Killed were: 1st Lt. Eric Yates, 26, of Rineyville, Ky., who died Sept. 18. Staff Sgt. Jaime C. Newman, 27, of Richmond, Va., who died Sept. 17.

Sgt. 1st Class Ronald A. Grider, 30, Brighton, Ill., died Sept. 18 at Kunduz province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when he was struck by machine gun fire. He was assigned to U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C.

1st Lt. Scott J. Fleming, 24, of Marietta, Ga., died Sept. 17 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, based out of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.

Spc. Deangelo B. Snow, 22, of Saginaw, Mich., died Sept. 17 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attached his vehicle with a rocket propelled grenade. He was assigned to the 526th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Senior Airman Daniel R. Sanchez, 23, of El Paso, Texas, died Sept. 16 while conducting combat operations in Oruzgan province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla.

Sgt. Aaron K. Kramer, 22, of Salt Lake City, Utah, died Sept. 16 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Sgt. John F. Burner III, 32, of Baltimore, Md., died Sept. 16, in Iskandariya, Iraq, in a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 63rd Signal Battalion (Expeditionary), 35th Signal Brigade, Fort Gordon, Ga.

Senior Airman James A. Hansen, 25, of Athens, Mich., died Sept. 15 of wounds suffered during a controlled detonation at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. He was assigned to the 46th Operations Support Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

Sgt. Ryan J. Hopkins, 21, of Livermore, Calif., died Jan. 8, at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, of injuries sustained in a motor pool accident in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 4, 2008. At the time of the incident, he was assigned to the 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo. At the time of his death, he was assigned to the Warrior Transition Unit, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas.

1st Lt. Todd W. Weaver, 26, of Hampton, Va., died Sept. 9 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Sgt. Philip C. Jenkins, 26, of Decatur, Ind. and Pvt. James F. McClamrock, 22, of Huntersvill, NC died Sept. 7 at Balad, Iraq, of wounds suffered in a shooting incident in Salah ad-Din province. This incident is under investigation. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Advise and Assist Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

Cpl. John C. Bishop, 25, of Columbus, Ind., died Sept. 8 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment,2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Sgt. Jesse M. Balthaser, 23, of Columbus, Ohio, died Sept. 4 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Sgt. Jesse M. Balthaser, 23, of Columbus, Ohio, died Sept. 4 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Cpl. Philip G. E. Charte, 22, of Goffstown, N.H., died Sept. 7 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Lance Cpl. Ross S. Carver, 21, of Rocky Point, N.C., died Sept. 3 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Capt. Jason T. McMahon, 35, of Mulvane, Kan., died Sept. 5 in Bagram, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with indirect fire in Jalalabad. He was assigned to the 184th Ordnance Battalion (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), 52nd Ordnance Group, Fort Campbell, Ky.

Pfc. Diego M. Montoya, 20, of San Antonio, Texas, died Sept. 2 in Laghman province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with indirect fire. He was assigned to the 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas.

The following four soldiers died Aug. 31 in Logar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive device. Killed were: Staff Sgt. Vinson B. Adkinson III, 26, of Harper, Kan. Sgt. Raymond C. Alcaraz, 20, of Redlands, Calif.

Pfc. Matthew E. George, 22, of Gransboro, N.C. Pfc. James A. Page, 23, of Titusville, Fla. They were assigned to the 173rd Brigade Support Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Bamberg, Germany.

The following soldiers died Aug. 30 in Malajat, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo. 1st Lt. Mark A. Noziska, 24, of Papillon, Neb. and Staff Sgt. Casey J. Grochowiak, 34, of Lompoc, Calif.

Lance Cpl. Joshua T. Twigg, 21, of Indiana, Pa., died Sept. 2 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Lance Cpl. Christopher B. Rodgers, 20, of Griffin, Ga., died Sept. 1 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

The following soldiers died of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive device Aug. 27 in Paktiya, Afghanistan.

Killed were: Spc. Chad D. Coleman, 20, of Moreland, Ga. and Pvt. Adam J. Novak, 20, of Prairie du Sac, Wis. They were assigned to the 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Lance Cpl. Cody A. Roberts, 22, of Boise, Idaho, died Aug. 31 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Sgt. Joseph A. Bovia, 24, of Kenner, La., died Aug. 31 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 3rd Combat Assault Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan.

The following soldiers died Aug. 30 in the Arghandab River Valley, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. All were based at Fort Carson, Colo. Killed were: Capt. Dale A Goetz, 43, of White, S.D. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. Staff Sgt. Jesse Infante, 30, of Cypress, Texas. He was assigned to the 4th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. Staff Sgt. Kevin J. Kessler, 32, of Canton, Ohio. He was assigned to the 4th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. Staff Sgt. Matthew J. West, 36, of Conover, Wis. He was assigned to the 71st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group. Pfc. Chad D. Clements, 26, of Huntington, Ind. He was assigned to the 4th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

east river. 9.19.10




I don't want to know what's on the other side of that boarded up window...

bunny love x 2


ave. D (?) and #2 = east 2nd street.

so refreshing!

marble cemetery