Stuff!

[brigdh]

1. I finally succumbed and paid LJ for another year. I know, seriously, at some point I am going to figure this Dreamwidth/LJ thing out, but I keep putting it off, and the ads were making me sad. As was the fact that I only had 5 icons. I have resisted the temptation to buy extra icons, so I still don't have all 140 or whatever, but at least I know have 65, which I tell myself is really all the icons a reasonable person needs. ...we'll see if I manage to keep to that.

2. Other stuff I am doing: Flikr! (Which, unlike LJ, I have not paid for, so now I can't upload more photos until next month.) I've been organizing some of the pictures I've taken recently; I don't claim to know much about cameras or what I'm doing, really, but I quite enjoy taking pictures, so I thought I'd share:
The Bronx Zoo
The Brooklyn Botanical Garden
New York Botanical Garden
Cardiff

3. A Monstrous Manifesto by yuki_onna. An amazing poem, absolutely worth reading.

4. The 25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in the USA, 2010. Unsurprisingly, none of them are in NYC, while three are in Ohio. Hahaha. I am totally sending this link to people I know who keep telling me how dangerous NYC is.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

I love the CAR photo. With the flower there, it looks like a memorial for a car.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, isn't that neat? The whole graffiti says "Car Park", but I couldn't find an angle to get a good photo of all of it. I kinda like how it turned out, though!

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's super good. But I've always really enjoyed your eye for photography.

[drmoonpants.livejournal.com]

That list of dangerous neighborhoods is really interesting! (ha ha, #6 is like ten blocks southwest of the bar we go to shows at all the time, >_>) Maaan, when people are like 'but New York is so dangerous!!' I am like... yeah, the 80s called, they want... YOU back, apparently.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Ha! None of them are in LA, either.

[pierreuse.livejournal.com]

Am only sort of surprised that none of them are in Michigan, from all I've heard and read about Detroit.

Is it sad that I'm feeling a bit of Missouri pride for #23? Because I totally thought of that neighborhood and hoped it would be on there. I think I actually blurted out: "BASEBALL MUSEUM" when I saw your link, being that the notable attraction of that neighborhood is the once-famous Negro Leagues Baseball Museum of Kansas City. A sweet place to go if you want to get stabbed in broad daylight.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

It is!

And yes, I keep trying to tell people that, you know, things can change in two-three decades. But since it is mostly old, distant relatives who tell me to watch out for NYC, they just give me the "yes, yes, innocent dearie, you don't know what you're talking about" routine. But now: proof! Mwahahaha.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*grins* It is a list for disproving stereotypes!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't think to look for Detroit, but I'm a bit surprised by that, too.

And ha, it is funny that it's almost cool to know a dangerous neighborhood. I have that feeling sometimes too.