Tuesday, December 9, 2008

notes from a test run of my new commute.


an homage to modestmerlin.

the train is 3 blocks away, as opposed to 3 leagues. (it's the clinton-washington c stop.)

i felt as meta-satisfied with the c train finally being 'my' train as i thought i would.

the morning c train clientele is fairly talented. not as talented as the l train denizens, but on the other hand not as contrived and/or annoying.

the whole of the clientele seems to comprise prep-hipsters, yuppies and black schoolchildren. ie, if the obama coalition had a train, this might well be it.

ten year old black girls are hopelessly adorable when six of them on a train bench lean into each others' puffy jackets at parallel sixty degree angles, like books slanted on a shelf. like ny madelines.

they are even cuter when they notice me futilely trying to capture this image with my hardly panoramic cell phone camera.

1 comment:

stitchT said...

What happen to Palm? Is he ever going to make an appearance on your blog again. Is he still selling people's email addresses?