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Ode to… Cecilware Fe-100
I was sipping my coffee in Reme diner in Washington Heights, and I was struck by a wave of taste bud goodness. The coffee was the perfect temperature. Hot. Even when you put cream in it. I was in heaven. I was sitting at the bar, so I looked up to see where the magic came from- again a Cecilware Fe-100. Ode to Cecilware Fe-100! It turns any cheap coffee bean into cafe heaven. Reme has a good relationship with its Cecilware Fe-100. Because when the waiter saw my cup half empty, he said, “Here, let me give you a fresh, hot cup…” and whoosh! took it away and replaced it with more black liquid goodness. They didn’t pour more into my stale coffee, probably knowing it would make it luke warm. I adored them immediately. Hail Cecilware Fe-100 in Greek diners.
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Dister, Washington Heights NYC
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Makeshift map to cross the street
This is either cute or annoying. It’s cute in that someone made their own urban map of 72nd street either to:
- help those who are lost because they themselves were once lost on this block.
- prevent people from asking questions in the street and getting hit by the crosstown bus (as illustrated).
- to add art to a lamppost.
It’s annoying because it also has a hint of gentrifying hispterness or privaldege to it. Is it a local map, or a map to help the newbies and Eurotourists as they stroll by Zabars and H&H Bagels?
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The sidewalks of Buenos Aires
A trip to Buenos Aires is what threw me to the Urban Odyssey side. The city’s sidewalks were the most impressionable character that I left with. Besides wondrous Street Cookie, the most memorable part of strolling down the sidewalks of Buenos Aires was the dog shit. It’s everywhere; brown little shrines left here and there. Their shapes were varied, from perfectly round droppings that made you think of spilled chocolate gumballs, and (even grosser, get ready), when it was smeared it reminded me of the dulce de leche found in almost every BA dessert. The sidewalks of Buenos Aires – continue reading …
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Miami knows what’s up
This Miami sign was submitted by JPLogan, passed along from others… More smart urban planning.
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I Love My Hood, Dister, Washington Heights NYC
Check out Dister’s website. This guy has talent- he is also a dancer (and an 0n-2 dancer at that)…
Rainbow fish Street Cookie
Brooklyn Heights, NYC July 2009
Street Cookie didn’t do right by emerging from this sidewalk as a rainbow fish. How is it going to get around?
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Dante’s Inferno, 8th Circle, Bolgia 9: Broken MTA announcement systems
“Sowers of discord” are placed in this circle of Dante’s Inferno, and who’s going to argue that those shrieking gargles we often hear on the subway or the platform do not perform such a function? In with air-conditioning you go, broken MTA announcement systems, and here’s why: when you’re broken, and broken real good as you often are, every minute or so we have to hear horrible scratchy blaring screams from subway speakers that are supposed to be in English, but are actually a high frequency form of alien language that must be meant to make your ears bleed. We’re already pissed we have to go to work, the caffeine has already got us jittery. We need to also listen to a cacophony worthy of the late X-Man Banshee?
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Nova Speaks
Hi all,
Here’s what’s been happening odyssey-wise around town, whether it be in NYC, Athens, Alexandria, Sicily or Outer space:
For those into graffiti or street signs, you have a piece of a mural by Cekis from the Brooklyn Afro-Punk festival, Tony Anny and Up in Catania, Obama in Caltagirone, and an unfulfilled prophecy from Williamsburg, Brooklyn (yes, I’ve really been traveling).
I ponder what could be the loneliest taxi stand in NYC… hint… alternate title for the blog: tits, tips and then a taxi.
JPlogan, Bianca and Nova salsa dance in a synagogue, while Narcissus incarnates as DR fire-hydrant guy who prefers to dance with his own reflection (and not the lady he’s got dangling on his arm).
Cities are the people that make them… so demonstrates Lawrence Durrell in his sensual, The Alexandria Quartet, a series of books that gives you a glimpse of a very personal Alexandria through a handful of its entangled inhabitants. This writing is pure indulgence of the senses. Nova Speaks – continue reading …
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Catania, Sicily June 2009
