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sufficient period

How minimalist are your Wednesdays, anyway? – photo by Mitch Waxman The Red Hand, or El Mano de Roja as my bagel guy Jose calls it, is pictured above. El Mano de Roja is my enemy, and is always...

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latter presently

My busy week is busy as promised. – photo by Mitch Waxman A humble narrator managed to get onboard that United States Army Corps of Engineers Harbor Inspection boat which I hoped to be on yesterday....

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agriculturally challenged

Does anyone ever say “thank god, it’s Tuesday”? – photo by Mitch Waxman Banal and sad is how I’d describe the current state of the Steinway Street commercial corridor here in Astoria, where the most...

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betook himself

Till you’re blue in the face. – photo by Mitch Waxman What’s wrong with the EPA Superfund people allowing NYC’s DEP to continue releasing 468 million gallons of raw sewage a year into Newtown Creek, as...

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horror somewhere

Sick of it all, everyone and everything. – photo by Mitch Waxman One of those wintry moods has struck, and a humble narrator is very much in “lone wolf” mode at the moment. I don’t want any part of...

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startled auditor

Terrific, it’s Tuesday. – photo by Mitch Waxman Recent endeavor found one scuttling along the sidewalk on the Harold Avenue Truss Bridge, or 39th street if you must, over the Sunnyside Yards. For a...

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maddening suggestions

Keepin on keepin on. – photo by Mitch Waxman So far so good here at HQ, and the only thing I can report to as involving coughing and wheezing so far involves the seasonal allergies which one has always...

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nocturnal prowler

Rippity dippity doo. – photo by Mitch Waxman I’ve always been a fan of Skillman Avenue for one reason or another, and one of the “dad jokes” which I inflict on people walking with me along it, when we...

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suitable account

Happy Friday, shut ins. – photo by Mitch Waxman Wandering, always wandering, that’s me. I also formulate questions while walking, along, like “why do the people who have moved into the new developments...

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had strangled

Used to be, long ago… – photo by Mitch Waxman One remembers when there were people here. Loiterers, louts, loudmouths, lords, ladies, lingerers. They would walk dogs and smoke intoxicating substances...

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time subsided

Well, still here… – photo by Mitch Waxman Last week’s schedule of rain put a real crimp in a humble narrator’s wanderings, and the end of the week warmup here in Astoria was accompanied by an explosion...

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sunniest room

Queens Plaza. – photo by Mitch Waxman The CoronAmerican shut down has gone on for so long now that the graffiti crowd have been able to throw themselves a real party here in Long Island City. Even the...

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might startle

It’s only been June for 3 days! – photo by Mitch Waxman Recent occasion found one at his favorite hole in the fences at Sunnyside Yards, which occurred coincidentally with a flurry of track repair and...

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be shunned

Another day, another 20,000 steps. – photo by Mitch Waxman One found himself scuttling down Skillman Avenue recently, marveling at the ludicrous size of Durst Organization’s latest project on the other...

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hesitated perceptibly

Archives. – photo by Mitch Waxman For one reason or another, when I originally set this post up back during the last week of April, I never ended up running it. Don’t remember why. Also don’t remember...

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roved abroad

Days in, nights out. – photo by Mitch Waxman Although you’d think that yesterday and today’s posts were shot in the same session, the photo captures are actually separated from each other by about 45...

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hadn’t reckoned

Thunderation, its Tuesday – photo by Mitch Waxman One wore sunglasses. This is an increasingly rare statement for one such as myself, who has been scuttling about in the dark night for so long. Friday...

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persistent presence

Monday. – photo by Mitch Waxman Anxious, that’s the way a humble narrator recently described his state of mind to a medical professional who was catechizing him. Anxious is how one has felt for quite a...

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little polyhedron

Thursday – photo by Mitch Waxman The shot above was gathered from the Koscisuzcko Bridge pedestrian/bike path sometime in the last couple of weeks, and depicts the central section of the fabulous...

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converging planes

Friday – photo by Mitch Waxman One is confused by modern political dialectic. To wit, a recent video captured in Woodside that is making the rounds on social media depicts an ugly encounter between an...

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