This summer I moved from Chicago to Honolulu. I'm homesick as hell. This was home--the castle-like, multi-ballroomed, in some places disintegrating former Hotel Shoreland, also featured in this post. After this school year ends, it becomes condos. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreland_Hall (1926 Trib ad) This is a sculpture in the middle of the street. I read that it was declared an eyesore some time ago and the only reason it was still around when I left (or even when I got there) is that because it's in the middle of the street, it's on the border between two aldermen's wards, and they couldn't agree on who should...

Fear of Food

author: procyon : Chicago, IL

A place called Superdawg. The blinking eyes on the anthropomorphic hot dogs scared the hell out of me but there was a long line out the door so I guess they must be pretty good.

Going Downtown to See the Decorations

author: procyon : Cleveland, OH

Dec 23 2007 My childhood favorite Bruce the Talking Spruce (discussed briefly in a post here called Jury Duty, I think) returns!!!! One of the kids here asked Bruce what color jacket he (the kid) was wearing, apparently to verify that he was really talking to them and was not a preprogrammed robot or whatever, and he replied that trees are color-blind. My parents reported that he sang some "Spruce Springsteen" to them while I was in the GameStop. Since we'd been standing and watching for a few minutes, my sister and I embarassedly went up to greet him after the...

One of These Days I'm Going to Leave You in Your Sleep

author: procyon : Albany, NY

I took these photos last year on the Amtrak train to Boston during Christmas break, and have been on the fence since then about posting them because of their very dubious technical merit (and lack of a city to put them in). I like them anyway, so here they are. There is a great deal of terrific, colorful graf near the railroad tracks along this route, especially in New York and Massachusetts, if I remember correctly. Unfortunately it was too hard for me to catch.

Harbor Islands

author: procyon : Boston, MA

mostly Lovells. Taken this August. warning for those with slow internet connections: contains 27 photos. robot face www.bostonislands.org/factsheet_ . . . sIslands__MMColParam=love

The Tent of Tomorrow, Revisited

author: procyon : New York, NY

on the way from Chicago to visit my boyfriend on Boston, i had a Greyhound layover of about five hours in New York City. as those who have read my previous posts may know, i'm kind of enamored of a certain partially locked-up, probably-endangered (see www.worldmonumentswatch.org/ 2008) building in Queens, so naturally my first course of action was to go visit it. the plan was to get back on the 7 afterwards and stop at as many stations as I had time--i didn't want my only destination to be someplace i'd already visited. but my duffel bag got very heavy in...

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