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Street Cookie in Inwood

Nova — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:37:09 +0000

Another critter popped up from another dimension. Was sitting right under the exhaust of a parked car, autumn leaves falling through its open arms.

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Street Cookie Portal

Nova — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:11:54 +0000

Manhattan Avenue, NYC September 2010

Believe I found the nesting ground for Street Cookies. Or a major portal for them in NYC. Or perhaps this is the portal for Puerto Rican Street Cookies.

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Bubbly Street Cookie on Central Park South

Nova — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:33:22 +0000

I haven’t seen a Street Cookie in awhile… You know, the random object in the middle of the sidewalk that seems misplaced, weird or possessed. This is a Street Cookie because it story-tells with its image alone. An empty champagne bottle on swanky Central Park South. A statement of the surrounding real estate (it aint a 40-ounce). Was it a tourist who consumed it stumbling down the block to their hotel? Was it left by a silly, slightly overweight, over-tanned, under-age group of girls shouting from the sun-roof of a limo-Hummer? What was the consumer celebrating? New York New York? Wedding, prom, life, sorrow? What story landed that bottle directly in front of the tree? Was it planted there on purpose? It’s a Street Cookie, alright.

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Rambo Street Cookie

Nova — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:20:09 +0000

Upper East Side, NYC September 2009

Don’t be fooled by the neighborhood. This sucker was waiting for me in a bush on posh Madison Avenue.

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The sidewalks of Buenos Aires

Nova — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:23:22 +0000

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.

In many areas, the sidewalks are very narrow, and beautifully natural in their unevenness and slopes. It’s a killer, ladies, to stroll down these blocks in your stilettos. Herds of dog walkers (Paseaperros) suddenly swarm your walking path, so you might find yourself with your back against the walls of stores to allow them to pass. We even saw a lady sprawled out on the sidewalk having epileptic seizures.

The sidewalks are also an open art gallery, with an abundance of colorful graffiti murals.

Then there are those majestic urban trees. They’re in tiny tree pits that are sometimes flooded with cloudy water with tiny swarms of flies. They must have deep, deep roots. They are gorgeous. I saw them everywhere. Many have spiraling black branches that curl into the sky. They shade the city in a green, luscious sigh.

Do you have any favorite cities with impressionable sidewalks?

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Rainbow fish Street Cookie

Nova — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:08:38 +0000

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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Alien Street Cookie Arrives in Inwood via Black Hole

ouo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:51:52 +0000

This find was submitted by C-mixto in Inwood, NYC

Speaking of outer space, if this isn’t Street Cookie I don’t know what is. C-mixto submitted this photo reluctantly. He is not a fan of the Street Cookie thread, but was shaken by his find and might be a new believer. This is alien Street Cookie emerging from a black hole vortex. He came across it near Academy Street in Inwood.

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Siciliano Street Cookie

Nova — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:21:00 +0000

Had my eye out for Street Cookie in Sicily. Surely in the land of Don Corleone Street Cookie would lurk. Spent a good deal of my excursions with a special eye on the sidewalk, looking for a face peering out from the concrete for some seemingly misplaced random object sitting lonely on the surface of the ground.

A true mafioso, Street Cookie was incognito. But I knew I found him in a market in the Sicilian city of Syracuse. Here he is:

There were other tomatoes in the vicinity. This one though was perfectly situation in a random place, waiting for conversation. Ciao, Street Cookie!

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Street Cookie Legions: NYC Arrival

Nova — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:36:30 +0000

Watchers–check this shit out. Street Cookie has manifested itself on a NYC sidewalk pavement. Its NYC incarnation has a more local flavor, and it looks like Street Cookie had a rough night. Interdimensional travel must not be easy.

Cy and I passed this on Spring Street Sunday, tripping us both. He claimed to have witnessed the “drop off”, but really I know it’s Street Cookie’s work. Artist project (do I recall an artist who does this sort of thing?), voodoo or terrorist bomb? These are the three origins I considered as I nervously clicked away to provide you documentation.

Only a day later, when I recalled the doll’s haughty grin, did I realize it’s a legion of Street Cookie.

Watch out!

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Street Cookie: Legions

Nova — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:20:06 +0000

This cookie isn’t going anywhere. It broke free from a sidewalk-concrete-other-dimension to speak to me with its demon eyes and herald in the arrival of this blog. It has the uncanny ability to haunt you once you set eyes on it. Street Cookie must come from the legion of demons that conjure strategized chaos. I unfortunately witnessed a fellow human being crack the other day, and the first thing that came to mind was this cookie. If any of you want to play a mean joke on me if I wind up in the looney bin one day- bring me a box of these cookies.

So here are some street cookie equivalents–characters or people that follow Street Cookie’s philosophy and spirit. Please add to this list!

V for Vendetta mask.

The Comedian’s pin from the Watchers (reflective of the Comedian himself)

Because LL says so: The Gingerbread Man from Shrek (who had a leg pulled off).

Imagine this image: little blonde haired girl on scooter rolling past Holy Name Church on Upper West Side, in a flowery spring dress to match the season and pink jelly sandals, with a skull mask over her face. Random, Twilight Zone shit that I’m not making up!

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