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“How does this work?”
“Oh I’ve seen one of these things. Yeah, yeah yeah. Okay, you’ve got to push this thing in I think and twist it.”
“Don’t force it don’t force it!”
“She’s right, my little friend. This contraption is in fact a weapon of mass destruction. Casanova plans to turn it against the city tonight at midnight.”
“Hey, something’s happening. Something’s happening.”
“Okay, very good. Now, on the wall to your left you should see two toggles side by side.”
“Oh, woah, ‘toggles’? What do you mean? You talking about switches?”
“I see them, Captain.”
“Thank you. Flip the first toggle.”
“Flipping.… (she flips it)”
“Excellent work. Now flip the—”
“Jolly good work, team! Jolly good!”
“Will you just—!…Over there, please.”
“Of course. Sorry.”
“Now flip the second toggle.”
“Do as he says, Bowler. The man knows what of he speaks.(Bowler flips the second toggle.)”
“Captain, I’m just gonna ask you directly: Do you know billionaire Lance Hunt?”
“It’s me. (Shoveler looks positively shocked) Naw, I’m kiddin’ with you. I’ve always wanted to do that.”
“What’s next?”
“I just told you, flip the second toggle.”
“…Again?”
“What do you mean?”
“Flip the toggle twice?”
“No, no no no, don’t do that. Just flip it again, now. One time. Flip it.”
(to Furious) “Does he understand what I’m asking?”
“Hold on a second. Captain, exactly how many toggle flips ‘in toto’ are involved in this entire procedure?”
(starting to really panic as the machine begins humming) “I just…it’s—Seven!”
“‘Seven’?”
“Flip it!”
“Seven?”
“Hold the phone. Everybody, hold the phone. You phrased that incorrectly. We need to know how many toggle flips are needed, not counting the gratuitous toggle flip you may have asked ” for in a moment of panic.”
“Flip it!!”
“I—”
“Okay, you know what? You know what? Could we just start again? Is there some sort of like, reset button on this thing?”
“No you little freak there’s no button for resetting. Flip the switch lady. Don’t stare at me. Lift your left arm. Flip it, you moron!”
“Woah!”
“You’re a moron!”
“I am not a moron.”
“You’re a moron!”
“Woah, woah!”
“Flip the switch!”
“Do not call her a moron, that’s not cool.”
“Thank you.”
“I will do it! I’ll do it!”
“Flip the switch lady! Don’t look at me like that!”
“It’s this one, yes?”
(Raja flips the second toggle a second time, and the machine kicks in.)
“Uh oh. Wrong switch.”
(A beam comes out of the machine which basically fries Captain Amazing into a man-shaped carbon chunk.)
“Everybody heard me say ‘reset button’, right?”
“Oh my God. Oh my God, we killed him.”
(from his spot on the other side of the room) “What do you mean ‘we’? I was right here.”

"'The Horror at Red Hook' is set in the Red Hook area of Brooklyn, NY, where Lovecraft lived for a brief time at 169 Clinton Street (from 1924 to 1926)."

Sure are a hell of a lot of these.

"They've got rivers of gold / But the wind goes right through you"

I had no idea that direct current was still in use for consumers here in New York, but it says something about the infrastructure if an upgrade like this can take so long to complete.

We got down to 4th avenue to see her run past. She might as well have been sprinting.

It seems like this could come in handy sometime.

A landmark turnaround from the NY DOT—establishing a small zone of euro-style separated bike lane in Chelsea. Having experienced European bike lanes firsthand, I'm very excited about this plan coming to fruition. No timeline for the project established?

Can't believe I haven't linked to this before, but today would be the appropriate day for it, I guess. To my mind the single most resonant and wrenching response to the September 11th attacks.

Interesting to watch the subways appear in chronological order.

Working on a map for work, using this as a basis. The high contrast makes it look like most of midtown and the financial district is flooded, when in fact they are not.

Maybe I should be reacting differently to this. But this video is hilarious. From the associated news story: "Men in tailored suits were caught in a lapel-singeing cloud." Glad more people weren't hurt, and I hope the injured pull through.

Extensive annotated photo galleries of one of New York's most distinctive features - ancient painted advertisements on the sides of buildings.

Impressionistic treatment of late 60's manhattan in sound by Antonioni, introduced by Walter Murch, and reprinted in full on bldgblog. Somewhat late to the party on this one, perhaps, but I need to mark it down so I'll remember to read it someday.

My work in print. Sort of. In print, online. FYI, a little teaching moment: Placing targets over the faces of politicians is an established tactic within the HIV/AIDS activist community to represent a politician who's a target for ire.

Paul Shaw is evidently a man after my own heart.