Sky2Five

The sky is the limit, so they say, but first you need to get outside… of yourself.

Okay it was more like an advocacy for spinach powered cars. This shot was taken on Wickenden Street in Providence, when we stopped for some java at the Coffee Exchange for our long ride home from Massachusetts a few weeks ago. Shouldn’t these ladies be more worried about the rising price of corn due to ethanol? How about promoting roughage and wind power??? Well with $4 a gallon around the corner, we all have some cud to chew on.

Not naming names, but a certain someone is having some Mother issues that can fill up these boxcars. Dude, what are you thinking?

Happy birthday to my brother-in-law Doug and to all the other Pisces out there.

Autumn has passed and winter has made me deal with my discontent. So I say farewell to a midwestern city that was pretty okay in this Boston boy’s eyes. If you’re heading through Ohio, check out Columbus, you’ll be surprised. Short North, Houndogs pizza, the Wexner Center, and some lovely little suburbs like Worthington. Zayt gesunt.

So does Lacan’s mirror stage apply to a whole city?

A note to Sassafrass:
It may be crumbling but it sure is colorful. The facade has taken a pummeling but I assure you it is still structurally sound.

The 2008 Faculty Show is up and we had the opening tonight. Glad that is over; last show of Autumn quarter! No more crazy marathon installations days! And a good two weeks until the take-down.

A crosswalk has always seemed precarious to me. As a Bostonian it often felt like the double lines just acted as a guide to help motorists size you up for a run down. An intersection after all gives you 4 danger angles to fear some wreckless schmuck. Hence we tend to cross in the middle of the street where chances get narrowed to only two oncoming directions. When I moved back from Seattle in the mid 90’s, where jaywalking was a shunning offense, I actually had to relearn how to cross mid-street.  So I like this new Columbus cubist crosswalk – I think it gives the legitimacy to the pedestrian, while also providing an optical barrier that is far from the traditional cross-hairs. 

Then again sometimes my program makes me want a strong drink.