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Snipped from the documentary Kabul Transit

verbalchameleon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:43:55 +0000

What would the world be like if people in the US were seeing this clip on the five o’clock news?

Do I still love you? Eat more MUMMs.

verbalchameleon — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:28:26 +0000

But of course I do.

Seen on top of a car parked in the East Village, NYC:

Seen on a lamppost in Long Island City, Queens, NYC:

Seen on a C-Town supermarket door in Astoria, Queens, NYC:

I love you, so I remind you to eat more MUMMs.

I am not certain if 5 MUMMs a day, or 5 entire MUMM plants a day, is optimal for health. Why don’t we ask Mr. C-Town?

verbalchameleon — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:25:32 +0000

St. Isidore, Patron Saint of the Internet. The Pope has deemed Isidore Patron of the Internets. (And here I thought it was Saint Al of Gore.)

Maybe things will run a bit more smoothly from here in?

verbalchameleon — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:34:28 +0000

I guess the weatha was nice that day, cause the shoe shiner was out, slipping around in the DC sunshine.

Too bad, as missbhavens said, that $1 info sounds like a good deal.

Mucha window

verbalchameleon — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:42:17 +0000

The Mucha window in St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague

young angel in prague

verbalchameleon — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:42:32 +0000

Eyes Wide Open

verbalchameleon — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:13:15 +0000

The week before last, I was at Silver Bay of Lake George in the Adirondacks, with Quakers at New York Yearly Meeting 2006.

The American Friends Service Committee were exhibiting the New York and New Jersey sections of the travelling exhibit Eyes Wide Open, which you can read about here. A pair of combat boots represents each soldier who has died in the current war in Iraq. (They have a pair of boots for every soldier from every state — labelled with name, age, hometown — but since this was a conference of local Quakers, they brought just NY and NJ).

There were also shoes to represent a small number of Iraqi victims of the war. A small percentage indeed, since there have been many more than 100,000 Iraqis who have died.

I am trying to think of the size of field that an exhibit of well over 100,000 pairs of shoes would require.

I can’t.

You can see more of my Eyes Wide Open photos here.

Technical Difficulties

verbalchameleon — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:19:02 +0000

I would like, Dear Reader, to blog you some wee photos from a recent vc tour. But I have temporarily misplaced my camera’s USB cord. It’s some A male to B mini-male contraption that I simply don’t have extras of. It might have fallen out in the airport when we discovered the Sicilian’s backpack had come open. I should have a replacement shortly. In the meantime, I can only try and entertain you with camera phone pictures of beautiful Long Island City.

A boy and his (somewhat-anatomically-correct) mannequin ride the subway: a photoplay

verbalchameleon — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:25:44 +0000

A boy and his (somewhat-anatomically-correct) mannequin were waiting for the subway at Broadway-Lafayette.

And then, they just rode off.

fishing and tackle

verbalchameleon — Mon, 01 May 2006 05:06:27 +0000

The Fihing Tackle store under the Chelsea Hotel, NYC.