Tag: New York
Stonewall
The place.
The monument.
A regular in all his disco finery waiting in the park opposite for opening time.
New York City’s cryogenic facility and missile defence system
New York semiotics
Pigeon-fancier’s corner.
Shit, I guess we lost this one after all.
The brand spanking new subway lines.
Millinery and monsters.
A hint of Sun Ra.
A cup of Joe.
Oh, and a statue of Duke Ellington.
Wait what where?
The Empire State Building: the great unanswered question answered, and the lairs of monsters
Yes, a rickety gangplank was actually the plan to get people from the moored dirigible into the building.
The big ape in the big apple.
From up here, you can see the nest of Q the Winged Serpent.
Paul Robeson lived here and here and here…
Paul Robeson lived here,
as did Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Joe Louis, Lena Horne, Zora Neale Houston, Andy Kirk, Canada Lee, and Kenneth and Mamie Clarke.
And Paul Robeson lived here, too,
as did Thurgood Marshall, W.E.B. DuBois, Aaron Douglas, William Stanley Braithwaite, Clarence Cameron White, Walter White, Roy Wilkins and Jimmy Lunceford.
And Paul Robeson lived here, in one of these houses or apartments, but I’m not sure which cos we forgot to write down the address.
But not a single fucking plaque. So this will have to do, just round the corner from the Schomburg.
Because sometimes passive-aggressive is just plain inspiring
When rock’n’roll tourism goes wrong
Trump’s America: taking away our freedom, our joy, our absurd futuristic technologies
Mark Bould 