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I saw a number of the mysterious Toynbee tiles in the streets of Philadelphia last week. The tiles began appearing in the early 1980s and have since been spotted in cities around the world. Most have become worn or have disappeared as streets get repaved. NPR ran a story about the tiles a couple of months ago. One of these days I'll have to go back and take pictures of the known tiles in better light. This guy seems to be obsessed with the tiles.
A few scary sights seen in East Harlem this weekend. Happy Halloween everybody! May all your worst nightmares come true today.
I opened a jar of barley malt syrup Sunday morning and this face was inside the lid. I submitted the image to myheritage.com to see if it matched any celebrity faces but it didn't. I guess Mr. Bill isn't in their database.
Anybody know what this thing does? I saw a bunch of them this afternoon on 23rd Street between 5th and 7th Avenues. Are these new half-finished parking meters?
Also a mystery, why people found this site by googling for:
Not Disturbing:
- mariebelle's nasa
- chris dahl whitman college
- famous people who live in nyack
- creme fraiche recipes cheesecake lemon
- weird sculpture east village stuffed animals
- patterns for quilted bugs
Disturbing:
- post-civil war movie sound clips
- animals focking pictures
- animals + underwear
- i saw my aunt peeing
- animals that run all over your monitor
- czech blood recipes
Devil Burger at Devil's Alley, Philadelphia
I'm back from Philadelphia were there were plenty of good friends, good food and good times. Not too much time for wandering and taking photos. Tonight I am relaxing, really relaxing, at home for the first time in several weeks. Sloth is good!
There's a photo, taken in better light, of the Devil Burger in the Philadelphia Weekly. The bowl on the right in my photo contained melted cheese. Would you pour the cheese on the burger or dip the burger into the cheese? I poured.
Unrelated: Interesting economic facts from today's New York Times:
In an article about politicians and plastic surgery, "With Americans spending $12 billion a year getting injected, stapled and snipped, cosmetic surgery long ago went mainstream."
From a story about the expansion of premium ice cream chain stores, "Americans spend about $21 billion on ice cream, according to the International Dairy Foods Association. That amounts to... 21.5 quarts a person a year."
I'm here at home waiting for my laundry to dry so I thought I would share yesterday's lunch. I had barbecue three times while in Alabama. Once at Greenbrier's outside of Huntsville, once at "Big Bob" Gibson BBQ in Decatur, and once at Whitt's in Athens. The bbq at Greenbrier's was okay. Whitt's was better, their pork sandwich included slaw and a slice of pickle.
Big Bob's pulled pork sandwich ($2.99) was about as close to heaven as a person gets on earth. The smoky meat is served with finely chopped coleslaw on a slightly toasted bun. There was red sauce and white sauce for the bbq. The white sauce is a northern Alabama specialty that you can make yourself. I tried both and preferred the red. Measuring up to the pork were the spicy baked beans and the enormous slice of coconut cream pie.
One odd thing about Big Bob's was the floor. The tile was really slippery. It looked spotlessly clean, but it felt like I was going to wipe out with every step.
Time for another trip!
I'll be away for the next couple of weeks. Posting here will be sporadic, if not non-existent, until I return on the 26th.
The Midtown South precinct prefers that you not park your bike nearby. They have a nice collection of confiscated street food carts at the station.
Good news for all us weekend 2/3 train riders! The express trains have been running local, so work could be done on the express tracks, since last winter. It seems like much longer than that. If the MTA is to be believed (ha ha ha, sometimes I crack myself up!) there are only five more weekends of disrupted service. While going local only adds a few minutes to a trip, all the starting and stopping makes that trip drag on seemingly forever.
One thing I'll miss when service returns to normal are the seemingly regular subway-riding New Yorkers who haven't quite caught on that there has been a service change. I see this all the time at 96th Street. The downtown 2/3 pulls into the station, someone starts toward the train but stops when they see it is not the 1 (for non-New Yorkers reading this, when the 2/3 runs local it stops at all the stations the 1 stops at so there's no sense in waiting for a 1 train). I'll also miss the panicked dash out of the uptown 2/3 at 96th when riders realize the train isn't going up Broadway.
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