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AFTER THE FALL
_____________________________________________________________________________HAS IT BEEN ONLY TWO MONTHS?It seems much longer since I stopped writing regularly for this blog. During that time, I've...
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WRITING THE AURAL WATERWAY
____________________________________________________________________________________________________New Brighton painter Bill Murphy's heroic Along Arthur Kill (watercolor on paper, 54 x 62, 2007-08)....
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A YEAR AND A MONTH LATER
I KNOW YOU MISSED ME 'CAUSE YOU TOLD ME SO.I stopped writing WALKING IS TRANSPORTATION (WIT) in October, 2009 because I wanted to do other things. It really was gratifying to hear from so many people...
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IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Last night, an 1872 French Second Empire mini-mansion across the street from our house caught fire, the inevitable conclusion to a decades-long process of disinterest and disinvestment.42 Westervelt...
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THE (VERY) SLOW REBIRTH OF TWO ST. GEORGE LANDMARKS
Photo taken Wednesday, May 11, 2011. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THIS IS PROGRESS. The day before Thanksgiving last year, the landmark 1872 French Second Empire style building at 42 Westervelt Avenue, St....
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A PREAMBLE TO THE NEXT POST
Robert Bunkin: Touch #2, acrylic and marble meal on canvas, 10 x 12" (2003) "YOU HAVE AN EYE," I've been told by artist friends. Not...
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ROBERT CIVELLO: THE FLESH AS EVIDENCE
In what he calls 'human landscapes,' the Brooklyn-born Staten Island painter Robert Civello, now in his late 60s, has created a collective statement he means to be broadly universal and representative....
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PRESERVATION UPDATE: 42 Westervelt Avenue
It's summer, the venerable black locust next door is thick with hanging seed-pods, and the restoration work at 42 Westervelt Avenue proceeds. At first, following a disastrous fire, with severe...
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New Brighton Artist Helps Revive Traditional Strategy for Staying Cool on...
Artist/designer EVERET's sunbrellas are available in three styles/colors, from left: "Bluebirds" (Light Blue/Turquoise); "Women Carrying Things On Their Heads" (Light Green); and "Poppies" (Lavender)....
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WHAT BRINGS ME BACK
Walking is Transportation (WIT), which debuted in 2006, began life as a blog concerned with transportation issues --- primarily walking, but public transit and bicycling as well.Eventually, WIT's scope...
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BACK AGAIN, TWO YEARS LATER
No promises this time. No core idea that makes everything orderly and coherent. Like walking. Or transportation. Or both.This time out, this fourth or fifth re-entry into bloggery, I'm treating this...
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(NOT) BECOMING DIGITAL
I remember well the first time, four or five years ago, when I sat down at a restaurant table with three friends and soon noticed I was the only one whose place setting didn't include a smartphone. I...
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MY MONTH WITH FRESH DIRECT™
It was a pleasure. A guilty one.The whole idea of ordering groceries online and having them delivered for an extra charge (plus tip) seemed to me like the sort of thing people do in Area Code 212 and...
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ABOUT-FACE
On MSNBC and other cable news channels, they call what I'm about to do 'walking it back.'Which means, I'm about to write that what I wrote --- in my last post about FreshDirect™ --- does not reflect my...
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WELCOME TO WIT.
WIT isn't about walking and it isn't about transportation. It used to be about those things, but there was only so much I, then a recently retired editor and business writer, could find to say about...
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DANKE, HERR DRUMPF
(Credit: LMIII (@artiste643)[NOTE: 'Drumpf' is the real family name of the President-elect and the name I'll use to refer to this loutish know-nothing henceforth. After Drumpf's congressional lackeys...
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ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, IT'S TRUMP, NOT DRUMPF
As a copy supervisor once informed me (though I think he thought he was reminding me), if wordplay is to have any effect, it's best used sparingly. So I won't, as I promised in an earlier post, refer...
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KRUGMAN'S RESPONSE TO TRUMP: 'RADICAL NON-COOPERATION'
In a talk live-streamed from the main branch of the New York Public Library last night, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist who teaches at the City University of New...
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BEFORE NOVEMBER 8 AND AFTER
What a difference a day makes.On November 9, when the unimaginable became actual, the fact of Trump, like the fact of Bush in 2000, was enough, more than enough, too much more than enough, to...
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MASHA GESSEN: REQUIRED READING
According to Wikipedia, "Masha Gessen is a Russian and American journalist, author, and activist noted for her opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin. . . . [She] writes primarily in English...
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