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Tuesday, January 3rd 2006

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GGP: brrrrrr!!!

in response to Polar Bears

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I'm feeling a bit "devil-posessed," too. But the first sunny day will make us both happier. Until then, a cup of tea and a decent book should tide us over.

in response to Cross Street and Blossom 2002

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: It ran along a section of Bohemia road. As a greasy, maladjusted art student, it was the only place to live. I honesty think that I'll return to Hastings one day. www.hastings.inuk.com/HASTINGS-S . . . STREET-MAP/singles/e3.htm

in response to Railworld Redux

elaine: i identified heavily with her. whenever people talk about how they would have been this or that in the past, i just know i would have been a drudge or a painted idiot girl when will this 'bah and humbug' lift?

in response to Cross Street and Blossom 2002

haj: I've been thinking about taking up skateboarding. I'm 33 (but active and in good shape). Am I crazy?

in response to I\'m Too Old for Skateboarding

elaine: Hastings has a bohemia ? this i gotta see. i like that hastings is *not* brighton

in response to Railworld Redux

elaine: bonkers. but good bonkers. not for me. but fun to watch.

in response to Polar Bears

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Elaine, I can recommend Hastings. I went to college there and lived in Bohemia (an actaul section of Hastings) for two years. It has a ton of history, a bunches of art/poetry/photography/drunkards, as much candyfloss and rock as you can eat, more witches than you can shake a broom at...

in response to Railworld Redux

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: On beauty and decay: I was sent a poem from a book by Toyohiko Kagawa, called Songs From The Slums. He grew up and worked around the Kobe slums of Japan and was thrown in prison as an agitator at one time, the stars shining through his iron bars are...

in response to Cross Street and Blossom 2002

elaine: fab. i believe that a seaside town is my natural next move, because where else, after london? but nowhere too posh, somewhere eyerollingly trashy, ideally, with perhaps a boho twist, just for company, but not too boho, or it will only go 'up' and get ruined. hunstanton is seriously hateful, it's...

in response to Railworld Redux

jeeff: using the JEDI (poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/jedi) i couldn't find the word, but i found some other interesting ones on the subject of beauty: kyakusenbi (n) beauty of leg lines kyoukasuigetsu (n) flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface/something that is visible but having no substance/the subtle and profound...

in response to Cross Street and Blossom 2002

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Attention Scooter Geeks: You must listen to "Lambrettavespascoota" by The Pop Rivets.

in response to The Vespas of Brooklyn Bretta

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Ok, so he's just a fool who doesn't know what time it is.

in response to Full of Gas

Jamie: Not at all lainey, rubbishness is a great way of putting it. I love hunstanton for example. A stereotypically rubbish english seaside town. Skeggy is also now just down the road from me. Seedy and post-apocalyptic, suits me fine. I got a tattoo done there. It's shite but i like...

in response to Railworld Redux

elaine: well put. i am told the japanese have a word for beauty in decay. it is a lovely photo

in response to Cross Street and Blossom 2002

elaine: yip!

in response to Full of Gas

Samantha: Wow, I love this photo. you have captured an almost elegant beauty in that disused place - love the interplay between the pink of the blossoms and the different tones of grey and blue-grey - the wire and wall and all that. You can't beat the Irish light- all that...

in response to Cross Street and Blossom 2002

Samantha: I totally love the clouds in the sky of the first photo. Most of the photos I take are usually of clouds, but I love the rest of it too, like these purply colours that you bring out.

in response to December 30th 2005

elaine: ::blushes:: ta! i know the thing with the sleeplessness - i have totally been there, and sympathise

in response to st clement\'s from the hip

Samantha: I used to live on the dlr until I was rehoused on the no. 8 bus. Metaphorically speaking only - I am fortunate enough not to be homeless, however i have lost something else......... can't remember what it is.....probably my mind. I love the wavy bendy reflection of the train...

in response to dlr train ride

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I love the way the power lines divide the shot. It looks like you've just completed a simple jigsaw.

in response to Western Sunset After the Storm

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: With such steady hands you should be a neurosurgeon. Or a barman.

in response to Waiting for a Lift: Christmas 2005

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: He was a fool and a cad. Did he give the watch back?

in response to Full of Gas

Samantha: "I was eventually able to read this brilliant little piece after repeated attempts..... at first the interference manager at the public librarium blopped it. Sorry I have only had 2 hours sleep. I will definitely be downloading this and any other material of yours I can digitalise to read at...

in response to st clement\'s from the hip

elaine: wait! without ??? WITHOUT?? so what is your secret? you have learned not to breathe?

in response to Waiting for a Lift: Christmas 2005

elaine: that'll be fifty quid for that advice!

in response to Waiting for a Lift: Christmas 2005

elaine: also why i like a lot of seaside towns. the bleakness and rubbishness appeals to me. no wonder i am a mental

in response to Railworld Redux

elaine: speak for yourself, j, i still think they are cool. i am a fool for anything big and especially engineery things, like the forth rail bridge images.google.co.uk/images?q=fir . . . lr=&safe=off&start=0&sa=N or the gherkin, or that has moving parts. i bought my onetime boyfriend a watch that has perpetual motion which you could see...

in response to Full of Gas

elaine: well, the middle class bohemianisation of broadway market is not all totally evil, not like some other places i could mention - like spitalfields market www.smut.org.uk/ frinstance, which was 'dark' when i first moved to the east end about 13 years ago. it had been a commercial fruit and veg...

in response to Broadway Squat

elaine: cat, it's not that i don't like a sharon - it's just that i liked the idea that she should be exactly as she looks. she would have to be aristocratic, bohemian, intellectual and witty, and very very foreign. bit much to ask of anyone, i thought

in response to Broadway Squat

elaine: exactly, jamie. hence i never spoke to her much - i just couldn't bear her to be anything less than utterly astounding

in response to Broadway Squat

ram51@japan.com: yep... good shot !

in response to Western Sunset After the Storm

vanessavargas@yahoo.com: i have lived on menahan street off of myrtle ave for a little over a year now. Let me tell you now that bushwick is the next williamsburg...and if your thinking of moving here, you'd better do it while its still affordable. there is a 1-1/2 bedroom across...

in response to My House in Bushwick

David B. Hall: I was born and raised in the Horner, and I was there when Oprah filmed "There Are No Children Here" and the Author of book Alex actually spent alot of time interviewing a lot of families there to write the book. I was friends with the family. Seeing the buildings...

in response to henry horner projects

arthur: I was born in Paterson and have seen the falls many times. These pictures are very good because of the heavy rain. Paterson was a very large industrial city that has been in decline since the end of WWII. At one time Wright's Aeronautical, Baldwin Locomotive, and...

in response to Rainbow Tourist

ram51: astonishing photos... thanks...

in response to Dirty Grand Central Martini

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