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Images of my suburban dreamworld: 12
No sign of Jack or Diane Advertisements
Images of my suburban dreamworld: 11
Do I dare to eat a peach?
Looking for Black Civil War Veterans in Rahway New Jersey
Rahway is an ancient town in New Jersey with an ancient cemetery. According to the website of the “Merchants and Drovers Tavern” (an inn dating from the Revolutionary War that has been turned into a museum) there are almost three hundred Civil War Veterans buried in Rahway Cemetery, twenty nine of whom were black. Rahway […]
Images of my suburban dreamworld: 10
Another New Jerseyan gone off to that big suburb in the sky.
Images of my suburban dreamworld: 10
This is my 2013 Jamis Commuter 1 propped up on its seat and handlebars for its monthly chain cleaning. Don’t ask my why I love this bike so much. It’s cheap, heavy, slow, and has required a lot of maintenance over the past few years. Nevertheless it gets me 7 miles to work in the […]
Going Carless
Back in 2008, right after the beginning of the “great recession” I moved back into the basement of my childhood home. It was only supposed to be for a few months until I found another apartment in the city, but we all know how that goes. Getting a lease in Michael Bloomberg’s hyper-gentrified New York […]
Images of My Suburban Dreamworld: 9
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Images of My Suburban Dreamworld: 8
The road ahead is clear, but where does it lead?
Images of My Suburban Dreamworld: 7
Often I dream of a world without superhighways.
The National Museum of Mathematics
On my brother’s recommendation, I visited the National Museum of Mathematics in New York City. Founder and President Glen Whitney, an ex-math professor and hedge fund “quant,” graduated from our shitty high-school in Roselle New Jersey. My brother knew him. I didn’t, although his older sister might remember me singing “Back on the Chain Gang” […]
