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Tuesday, May 17th 2005

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jeeff: very cool. we had a balloon fest in my hometown every summer. looked much the same as this. good idea to use old photos. i'd love to see more old photos on this site. i'll try and find some of my own.

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jeeff: haha, guilty as charged. but sometimes i take my time machine into the future for space burritos.

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ea: ooh elaine I love that image perspecive (1640), tis rather traversable, I nearly felt my ankle twist

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lil ak : was good son we b on south orange ave 2 me n ma niggaz alex nazario u might no him holla at me nigga

in response to Blood Graffiti

Chris B.B.C cuz: Fuck all you fucken bloods, chaps, and scraps & anyone else cuz it is crip all day niggas thats right

in response to Crip Graffiti: Brooklyn

riiiiiite.....: ooook.... has ne1 here a live 2 live... ur living in the past man!!

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Shortee C^RIP 8 TREY GANGSTA C^RIP: YO ya slob ass nikkas need to C^hill wif dat C^k nonsense cuz da only reason ya punk ass slobs exist is cuz we run shit and we stood runnin shit since day mutha fucken ONE. How many of my reall nikkas know they shit? ya slobs only came to...

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nora: I WOULD LIKE THIS PAINTING HANGING ON THE WALL IN MY LOUNGE

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Otro Más: Creo que muchos hemos llegado aquí por lo mismo. He vivido toda mi vida en Madrid y nunca he oído hablar de este tipo. Si es todo una invención del marketing, me quito el sombrero por la campaña. Si es verdad lo que nos cuentan, me lo vuelvo a quitar...

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jeeff: i don't know about that. many of the most devastating battles of WW2 were fought in russian territory. 3 of the top 5 most costly battles (in terms of human casualties) were in russia, including the battle of moscow, and the battle of stalingrad (also known as the...

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Peter:

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Peter: today's fed ex truck:

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Natali: Holy crap, what a lucky coincidence. Great photos.

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Natali: And you don't really think of Moscow as being war torn either. Fascinating stuff.

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emil wright: gwen is so hot. i try to find as many photos of her as i can. i think she is probably the most attractive american female ive ever seen.

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Peter: nice! i love the last one... all scorch and no wreckage!

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elaine: peter: i took these for you BTW

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kobe: what are the white bits in the black puddings, you ask? why, they are cow snouts and bull penises!

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Peter: i think they are very picky about their parking here...

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elaine: wow!

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elaine: just never, now. get over it. parking is over, period. you want to get in a car and start driving, it is your look out, you may never stop

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Peter: quite the contrary... here are some great photos of hell: black pudding blood sausages scotch eggs

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elaine: oops, my mistake, there's loads, though you suggest perhaps i meant to type in hool hello hool, which would be a less miserablist search

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elaine: i am glad we have markers to look for references to black pudding, blood sausage, and scotch eggs now, though not hell, no photos yet of hell?

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Peter: to me, hell is defined as a place where they make you gorge on black pudding, blood sausage and scotch eggs.

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elaine: more lurid, less a good on food - you have achieved a traffic light effect - from a country where green, red, blue is the sequence. i feel that blue might mean, drive if you like, everything is chilled out

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Peter: jamie: i just went down to my office's cafeteria to scope out the scene for french fries... before: 100% pre-fab foodservice chips with hot pepper sauce and extra salt... (cameraphone photo of fries in front of the cement thing, incidentally) after: empty paper boat with grease/salt/peppersauce residue and a queasy stomach... the source...

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elaine: jamie: are you a butcher? i didn't know there was a cut called 'ass meat'

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elaine: nicer especially if you are a vegetarian or a bit sqeamish. i tend not to eat black pudding, not because it is made of blood, but because it doesn't taste good to me.... probably because of the cooked blood content

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Jamie: It's gotta be nicer than Black Pudding. Which is made from congealed pigs blood and ass-meat.

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elaine: sorry to hear about your journey. i see the driving through now, of course, i had forgotten ferries. i used to get the ferry to skye, but now there is a bridge, which has caused controversy. i like a ferry ride to be 20 mins tops

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elaine: white pudding is actually very nice, as it happens, in the same way as chips are, quite bland in a way, but good, and vegetarian, peter, should you ever find yourself in a scottish chippie

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Jamie: heh i knew that question would surface. Here is a summary of my journey. 1. Get inside red 1995 Ford Fiesta 2. Drive fom Lisnaskea, NI to Larne, NI 3. Drive little car onto big ferry 4. Feel ill all the way to Cairnryan, Scotland 5. Drive (whilst half asleep) from Cairnryan to M6 6. Follow...

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elaine: do you know, i have never been to cleethorpes. the chippie on the front at welles next the sea is very good

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elaine: were you driving a car off a cliff? how can you drive through scotland?????

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Jamie: Have you ever tried the fish and chips in Cleethorpes. Another delightful English seaside resort. It has a very hight batter ratio in general which i like.

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Jamie: savoury fried porrige sounds delightful! i drove through scotland once but didn't stop.

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elaine: however, hunstanton has them because of the busloads of northerners (english) so the cullinary taste has obviously travelled

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elaine: to an extent. i was born in england, honeypot lane maternity hospital to be exact, of a scottish mother and english father, always and forever to be viewed as 'too english' when we repaired on divorce to the bleak dark suburbs of edinburgh, and on a subsequent attempt at living...

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Jamie: and i think i'd be right in saying that deep fried confectionery is a Scottish thing? Are you Scottish elaine?

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Jamie: Nigel certainly is a very British name. Like Trevor and Colin.

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elaine: you started it!

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Jamie: You find those here most frequently in chinese places. They call them chips but they're more commonly reffered to as 'potato wedges'. I am partial to greasy american style prefab fries. Although i have boycotted McDonalds ever since watching Supersize Me. The kebab shop here in Horncastle serves quite delectable...

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Peter: hahaha deep fried candybars! there is a "british"-style (har har- but alas, they have a chef named 'nigel' so one never knows) fish/chips stand here in brooklyn called "The Chip Shop" that sells those as well as deep-fried twinkies. needless to say, ive never eaten there! www.epinions.com/content_1219076228 newyork.citysearch.com/profile/11484105 splendidtable.publicradio.org/wh . . . eat/travel_twinkie4.shtml

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elaine: surely you could have invested in a bag of crisps? it is wise to buy crisps and peanuts - scrunch up the crisps and pour in the peanuts - if substituting for a meal

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elaine: i had chips for lunch the day i went on the coast hopper to holkham. we were obliged to change buses at hunstanton which is a vile dive in my humble opinion. the chips had been cooked in palm oil, which is definately wrong for oh so many reasons, and...

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Peter: elaine: not when theres go-karts to be driven!

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Jamie: One must line ones stomach with high levels of ASDA (Walmart) own-brand crisps prior to consuming lots of beer.

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Peter: its rare to get chips that look that good unless youre at a pomme frites stand or a non-fastfood place... as opposed to the pre-fab, extruded skinny/greasy mcdonald's variants. i love what they call "steak fries" here... very large/coarsely diced potatoes with skin on, fried to dark golden/brown crunchy goodness....

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elaine: and you! young man, you must know it is bad to drink on an empty stomach!

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kobe: ha ha, some of the series on here are very subtle and sublimely entertaining. im thinking of the pet bird and cement thing and fedex threads, as opposed to say, the shankhill or crip/blood ones. its fun to watch them unfold for no reason save for our entertainment.

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Jamie: can you get proper chips in the us? I mean like english chips as opposed to american french fries. Not that they don't both have equal appeal in different ways.

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elaine: the lighthouse was recently for sale for £150 000. although it is, in housing terms, more just a staircase and a couple of landings than anything really livable, i entertained a fantasy of living there for several hours, and even looked it up on the net, by which time the...

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Peter: yesterday afternoon, i rode my bike to coney island... i was hungry, so i stopped by nathan's hotdog stand. i dont eat meat, so chips were my only alternative... but i wanted a beer too... so i had a perplexing choice to make... beer or chips? because i most certainly...

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elaine: nicely set off by the red

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Jamie: why can't it? der·e·lict adj. 1. Deserted by an owner or keeper; abandoned. 2. Run-down; dilapidated. 3. Neglectful of duty or obligation; remiss. n. 1. Abandoned property, especially a ship abandoned at sea. 2. A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant. 3. Law. Land left dry by a permanent recession of the...

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elaine: the chips do look particularly appealing.. but jamie, i have to tell you that chips are not a good lunch to have on a regular basis. you will get spots, and maybe scurvey, so you must try and eat your greens

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GGP: those chips look delectable. unfortunately, I quickly lost my appetite when I saw the shrub from hell and reviewed some of his choice quotes. HELP!!!

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elaine: or he could've be planning on showing you an interesting scar involving having to undress a bit, and perhaps he wanted to wash or put on clean underwear for the 'reveal'

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kobe: and, my my, he did it during broad daylight. what a brave guy.

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kobe: nice! graffiti in progress.

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kobe: how strange that these places just sit derelict. so is the american way, where everything is disposable, eh?

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kobe: wow, is today urban decay day on citynoise? great shots!

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kobe: in such a poor city, i wonder how so many such estates can go abandoned. and not be squatted, additionally.

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GGP: In the first shot, it looks like the poor building is trying to reach out for help. Nice series.

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kobe: wow, world war two relics. i didnt know such places still existed. moscow must be such a vast, sprawling city, eh?

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kobe: that photo is funny. what does it mean?

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elaine: update: a bike and oddly: removed from the scorch

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elaine: i like the chocolatey shoes. plus there being no complaints today, though it is printed in such a way as to produce panic, as far as i can see, which is less good

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Rodolfo Camps Palacios: He visto casi por casualidad las páginas refridas a Justo Gallego Marínez (Gracias a "La ventana de Gemma Nierga) A partir de ahora cuando me pregunten como es España podré decir que es un País tan increíble que hasta puede haber un Hombre como Don Justo, capaz de hacer una...

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neat: peace to realm kore and anticand kos

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alberto: A los que reprochan que esta construido al margen de la ley, que si es ilegal... por favor, yo creo que el esfuerzo de este hombre está por encima de cualquier normativa ética o social, que llegan a resultar ridiculas junto a la grandeza de esta persona. Y a los que...

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elaine: you don't know what will happen, so you can't guess in advance as to if intervention is a good idea or not. i tend not to join in if there are other people, and sometimes i feel bad about it, though i did shout to a drowning man once, but...

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elaine: it is a fave of mine

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Peter: jj- thanks for pasing this story on to us. like jamie, i really enjoy the text entries too, sometimes alot more than the photo posts, as theyre alot more informative and imaginative. ive seen situations like this play out here in nyc also... usually similar teenage kids getting out of school....

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Jamie: that budgie gets everywhere

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Jamie: No worries Peter. I am a mere conduit

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Jamie: It's true a lot of people come here to post pictures and that's cool but the text -- the stories are the glue that holds the hole thing together. I hope you'll provide us with more glue in the future

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Peter: here's a dr. sex piece from high atop canal street in chinatown, nyc:

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Peter: wow jamie, thats a pretty interesting hypothesis. i can dig it. thanks for passing along an explanation... elaine: also plato's cave. thanks for the reminder on that classic...

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Peter: also: i used to take the j/m/z train from my old place in brooklyn into manhattan every day... on the elevated platform near the hospital, i once saw a thug grab a book out of a woman's hands and toss it onto the roof of an adjacent c-town grocery below......

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Peter: no complaints today! im really glad they put the warning at rat's level... now they know to avoid the poisons... that is, assuming they read english ;)

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Peter: hey wait, is that bush sticker stuck on top of a pet bird sticker?

in response to Chips for Lunch

Peter: mmm, chips. also: america hasnt been "nice", "safe" or "secure" for some time... but i guess ignorance is bliss, even if youre a world "leader". also: funny about the brown-painted benches. the touch, the feel of fake wood!

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Jamie: couldn't help but share some more bushisms: "Do you have blacks, too?" —to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001 "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." —as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002 "It is white." —after being asked by a child in Britain...

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Peter: a cool italian snail that put-putters around the bk!

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Peter: hahaha jamie!

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elaine: re representation of things and ideas, and thinking about images and communicationg about them, it iw worth reviewing available text on plato's cave. there is loads on the interweb. i think plato's cave is a good anchor for any theoretical look at media in all it's forms, and it also...

in response to Lascaux

Jamie: I watched a BBC documentary last night about the origins of human art. It focused on Lascaux and other cave paintings both abstract and of animals. It rubbished the general hypothesis that the paintings are merely representations of the artists' world. Indeed the abstract examples bear no resemblance to anything...

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elaine: moral advice for the modern age....!

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Jamie: and cellphone! heh

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i know: i LOVE your panoramas

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fuzzytank: heheh YAY! so im not the only one that needs a big 'Dont Drink and Post' sign on their puter ;)

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Jamie: oops i was a bit drunk last night. i do apologize! heh

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sine: helloh neighbor!

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sally: it's a snail!

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GGP: the most photographed mailbox on eastern parkway!

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