Holly Martins' Friend

  • Disintegration. The Album.

    I wandered through the Stop and Shop looking for bread and butter pickles for my father and became aware that the Cure were playing over the PA. I paused and considered this chronological and cultural inconsistency.  This was the aberrant punctuation mark to my experiment in turning back time. A little earlier I parked the car…

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  • Pie Plate Removal

    I removed the pie plate from my new Ghost Slamr 29 mountain bike. I did not follow Bicycling magazine’s instructions above. I used cutting tools. I am lazy. I did not feel like removing the wheel, finding a chain whip and extracting the cassette from the hub. So I used the tools below. I don’t…

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  • Shirley Chisholm State Park #1

    The gravel paths of Shirley Chisolm park snake around a big mound of a former landfill. It sounds less than glamorous I admit. The park was designed around the Fountain Ave and Pennsylvania Avenue Landfills.  It juts out into Jamaica Bay and from its highest point you can spin around in a full 360 degrees to…

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