Articles from kc

Hoot the Freak

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Forever Hollywood

author: kc : Los Angeles, CA
Monday, June 26th, 2006

Hedges of the Stars

author: kc : Los Angeles, CA
Monday, June 26th, 2006

Olde Graf?

author: kc : Queens, NY
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Fleeting Blossoms

author: kc : Queens, NY
Monday, April 3rd, 2006

Chicken Run

author: kc : New York, NY
Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Hip Yard

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Cold Off the Press

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Summer's Day

author: kc : Salisbury Mills, NY
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Squid Squib

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

I (Heart) Mom

author: kc : New York, NY
Sunday, January 15th, 2006

Hearse to Ya! A/k/a The Not So Grim Reaper

author: kc : New York, NY
Friday, December 2nd, 2005

Onion Fields

author: kc : Chester, NY
Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Leaves at Night

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

I Am a Pumpkin for the County

author: kc : Bloomville, NY
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

In Somnia

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

It Rained a Lot

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Rainbow Tourist

author: kc : Paterson, NJ
Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Graf Exit from Brooklyn

author: kc : New York, NY
Sunday, October 9th, 2005

Minor Leagues

author: kc : New York, NY
Sunday, October 9th, 2005

God in Greenwich Village

author: kc : New York, NY
Friday, September 30th, 2005

Grafbits

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, September 25th, 2005

Floating Island

author: kc : New York, NY
Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Rant

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Meditation

author: kc : New York, NY
Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Sign

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Roadkill

author: kc : Chester, NY
Monday, September 19th, 2005

Tomatoes

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Monday, September 19th, 2005

TennEx, Anyone?

author: kc : New York, NY
Friday, September 16th, 2005

Cementia

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Hoot the Freak

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY

Coney Island mellows in the fall...I think I read these buildings might be "redeveloped," but then again maybe there was talk of some kind of preservation. Anway, I'd miss them.

Forever Hollywood

author: kc : Los Angeles, CA

One of the things that's fun about California is juxtapositions. On the tour of the stars' homes, I learned that Mick Jagger used to live across from Elvis Presley and, given another year or two, Sly Stallone and Ella Fitzgerald would have been neighbors. This goes on after death! Johnny Ramone is right next to Hattie McDaniel! (This, btw, is the Forever Hollywood cemetery, right around the block from Paramount Studios.) (These swans seem to really like hanging around the black marble.) Plus: A gracious farewell. Cecille B. DeMille--It came to this?? Need I say more?

Hedges of the Stars

author: kc : Los Angeles, CA

Back in May, I went to Hollywood and took one of those tours of the stars homes--an air-conditioned bus, a guide both cynical and adoring who was working out comedy routines for his own future television appearances. In short, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The following views came from one block--a block on which Jackie Chan also lived, and our leader was having fun fantasizing about the barbecues. Bea Arthur's roses Kathy Bates's flowers P. Diddy's hydrangeas Special added bonus: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot? This is apparently exactly the parking lot she had in mind. It was once some...

Olde Graf?

author: kc : Queens, NY

Walking around Queens this weekend, I noticed a couple of spots with old, faded, graf-like scrawls---which I gradually realized were slightly elevated on the surface...were painted! Did graf predate spraypaint? Does graf as we know it require spraypaint?

Fleeting Blossoms

author: kc : Queens, NY

Chicken Run

author: kc : New York, NY

A sidewalk drama in Harlem. I was with a walking tour, and we encountered a woman who was trying to rescue a rooster--she'd discovered it wandering the sidewalk and had discovered she could attract its attention and lead it by dangling a shiny CD in front of it. She said she'd been calling anyone--ASPCA, NYPD, 911--for an hour. Snappy feet. The cops finally showed up--to applause! What happened next? I have no idea. I liked the birdy name of the shop next door.

Hip Yard

author: kc : Brooklyn, NY

Red Hook, more or less, as seen from the sea. These photos are actually the work of GGP, whose camery battery had gone dead at an inopportune moment. Nice castle, no? This building, or one like it, is soon to be turned into a Fairway gourmet supermarket--which is definitely part of a move toward gentrification, although unlike Whole Foods, say, I don't think Fairway draws exclusively on the gentrified crowd.