Posted: March 13th, 2012 | Filed under: Out Of Town
We didn’t get down to Philadelphia as much as we usually do in 2011, what with moving and baby stuff, but there were a few Phillies games we went down there for, basically in May and June.
We (or some of us at least) ate a Pork Scrapple slider at White Dog in University City:
Before we installed the toilet at Kawama, and before we even ordered the toilet on Amazon, we checked out toilets at the Lowe’s in South Philadelphia. They want you to know that it’s not too difficult to install them yourself:
Just across the parking lot at IKEA (where we bought pulls for the cabinets) you get a nice view of the S.S. United States from the Meatball Chamber:
At the Braves-Phillies game, we saw how much of the Spectrum was finally gone:
Later in May, I think I took this picture because I was surprised how expensive gas was. That seems reasonable today . . .
At the day game on the 21st against the Rangers, it was just after the end of the world and everyone was still a little anxious:
And at the game in June against the Cubs, expectations about the season were sky high:
Of course we know how that turned out:
Posted: March 11th, 2012 | Filed under: Queens
This Times article about the Millennium Theater in Brighton Beach was interesting — so many theaters have been shuttered over the years that it’s cool to see a theater being used for something approximating what it was meant for — i.e., some performance of some sort.
It’s cool because so many theaters are now Duane Reades or whatnot, to which @RICANROLL tweeted like the theater on 30th Avenue and Steinway is now a Duane Reade. Yup, that’s exactly which one I was thinking. We walked by it yesterday:
In this case, the Astoria Sixplex (which I actually went to once or twice before it closed in 2002) actually became a Duane Reade, a Chase bank and a New York Sports Club.
I’m not even upset that @RICANROLL fucked me by spoiling a Walking Dead plot point.
Posted: March 6th, 2012 | Filed under: Out Of Town
On the airplane (new page for Airplanes, by the way) . . . some strange things. Here, for example, is the way the Royal Jordanian in-flight magazine described Eat, Pray, Love:
And here is the way the Delta in-flight magazine described it:
We also marveled at the come-hither look the lady on the Delta fasten seat belt announcement had. Hubba hubba:
In Phoenix, we went back to Hance Park and saw the I-10 plaque installed there. Under Hance Park (aka Deck Park) is the final link in the transcontinental interstate, completed in 1992:
A new page for the Palm Tree Stealth Monopole at 15th Avenue and Camelback Road. I love these things:
In April, we had to fly through O’Hare and saw one of these old school Airfones. I almost forgot about these things:
We ate at Culver’s (nearest location to NYC is about 473 miles west in Reynoldsburg, Ohio).
We saw the D-Backs vs. Giants at Chase Field early in the season when no one — no one! — knew that the D-Backs would be that good:
