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One in 8 Million: Reclaiming My Home
When I was a little girl poking around my father’s coin stash, the stray New York City Subway tokens always intrigued me. I remember the subway: the turnstiles like a bathtub faucet turned upright, a rotating propeller I could slip under easily; anyone could. And I remember the trains, arriving colorful and coated in bright [...]
Roadtrip: The 56th Inauguration of the President of the United States
January 19, 2009, 11:15 p.m. (LaGuardia, picking up the car rental)January 20, 2009, 2:00 a.m. (Maryland rest stop)January 20, 2009, 3:40 a.m. (Greenbelt, MD Metro station)January 20, 2009, 7:15 a.m. (The sun comes out finally!)January 20, 2009, 7:35 a.m. (Walking through a tunnel underneath the National Mall.) January 20, 2009, 8:00 a.m.January 20, 2009, 8:30 [...]
Goodbye W., Part III: I’m off to Inauguration
I requested off from work on January 20, 2009 the evening of November 4, 2008. Somewhere between then and a few hours ago I was resolved to celebrate inauguration activities here in New York City. I would wake up early to nab a seat for the screening at the Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg [...]
Goodbye W., Part II
For every celebration there is a perfect cupcake. The combination of flavors and enhancements present in my Hello Obama cupcakes represent a medley of symbolism. These golden vanilla cupcakes (for the Illinois’s golden boy) are lemon-almond flavored. Not only because I ran out of vanilla extract and had to compensate with lemon and almond extracts, but because [...]
Goodbye W., Part I
Revelling in the collective excitement of these historical times, the next few days are dedicated to like-minded celebrations and inaugurationated parties. Event: Yes We Can: Barack Obama’s History-Making Presidential Campaign, the photographs of Scout Tufankjian at powerHouse Books, DUMBO
Ostentatious Displays of Personal Aggrandisement
Off the well worn track of my daily life here in New York is a different city. A city that the tourists come to see. 46 million tourists just in 2007 (this and other interesting figures here). Among New York City’s countless attractions and world renowned cultural institutions is the Metropolitan Museum of Art: home [...]
Perhaps Labor Day doesn’t come from a store. Perhaps Labor Day means a little bit more.
As the Industrial Revolution took hold of the nation, the average American in the late 1800s worked 12-hour days, seven days a week in order to make a basic living. Children were also working, as they provided cheap labor to employers and laws against child labor were not strongly enforced. With the long hours and [...]
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai, Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball…
Wanting to make the most of a day here in Kanchanaburi (or getting lazy?), I booked a leisure day tour to hit a variety of sights in the area. My air-conditioned mini-van brought me to Sai Yok National Park, a 500 square-km park that includes the Sai Yok Noi waterfall (60 kms outside of Kanchanaburi) [...]
Warheads, Tigers and Wild Brogs. Oh. My.
Last night I awoke to the pounding of the tin roofs around my guesthouse. Startled and helpless,I thought the worst. Transient looters? Back-alley bandits preying on the seclusion of my rented room? Drunken tourists? Emerging in the morning, the noisy culprit was clear. Mangoes. They were all over the place at Sam’s River Rafthouse. Arriving [...]
“Compounds are subject to dissolution.”
Meet Michael. I spent the afternoon with him, by chance, and learned a good deal about this Buddha fellow I’ve been photographing. After returning to my guest house from the historical park with the remainder of the afternoon at my disposal, I decided to carry on with plans I had for the following day: a [...]
NYC History: I myself am… strange and unusual.
After years of admiring the view of ancient headstones peeking up towards the Kosciusko Bridge on the BQE, I finally visited the grounds. Entertaining a Michiganian who’d make a fine addition to the The Endless family and in need of extra credit grave-rubbings for my Death class offered the perfect opportunity to spend a beautiful [...]
Karen Zamboni’s Day Off
I woke up this past Monday morning realizing, in the frenzy of a rather bizarre Sunday night, that I had forgotten to return my car rental. I’d be responsible for an additional day’s rate regardless of whether I returned it 10 minutes or 10 hours after this realization. A quick check of the weather sealed [...]
