You lookin' at me?
03/25/03
On any given weekday, more than two million people ride the New York City subway and most of them try very hard not to look at one another.As an act of sustained denial it is amazing to watch, especially when the person who is defiantly not looking is seated right across from another person who screams to be looked at: he is playing "Staying Alive" on a broken saxophone; he is clipping his fingernails onto the floor while arguing with Satan; he is wearing a suit and headdress made entirely from old plastic bags.
Randy Kennedy, in the Times.
The closest I've come to that lately was a crazy (but fun) drunk guy who roamed around my car of the Q train, saying "The nice thing about you white guys, you know how to read a map." Also, he told the story of why he punched his army dentist in Vietnam: "If you won't knock me out, I'm gonna knock you out."
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DEAR MIKE I THINK YOUR STUPID YOU CANT JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER TRONA IS A WONDERFUL PLACE AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT PLANT HERE HAPPENS TO GIVE MY FATHER OVER 30 DOLLARS AN HOUR AND MY MOTHER THE SAME THATS PROBABLY MORE THAN YOU'LL MAKE IN A LIFE TIME THEY GET OVER 1000 A WEEK SO SHUTUP WHEN YOU DONT KNOW CRAP ABOUT TRONA I MOVED HERE 2 YEARS AGO FROM OKLAHOMA I LOVE TRONA WAY BETTER I HAVE THE BEST FRIENDS I COULD EVER HAVE AND THE BEST SCHOOL PEOPLE HERE DONT JUDGE YOU BUY WHAT YOU WARE OR HOW YOU TALK THEY JUST SAY WE DONT KNOW THERE STORY SO DONT JUDGE THEM TAKE A LOOK MIKE AT WHAT YOUR DOING EVERY THING YOU POSTED WAS A LIE ALL THE HOUSES HAVE BEEN CONDEMED AND THERE WILL BE NEW ONES PUT UP THERE ARE 2 REST RAUNTS IN TOWN CALLED TRAILS DRIVE IN AND THE T-STOP WITH IS ALSO A GAS STATION MIKE IT'S BRAND NEW SO MAYBE YOU SHOULD GET AN UPDATE ON YOUR WEBSITE BECAUSE IT SUCKS AND SO WHAT IF ARE FOOTBALL FIELD IS DIRT WHAT DO YOU THINK ITS WRONG TO GET DOWN AND DIRTY MIKE NOBODY NEEDS GRASS FOR CIGERS AND THINGS OF THAT NATUREWE HAVE A GREAT SCHOOL WITH WONDERFUL TEACHERS AND WEVE HAD OVER HALF THE STUDENTS IN THAT SCHOOL GO TO COLLEGES THAT MOST PEOPLE WOULD DIE FOR TAKE A GIRL NAMED LASEY SHES GRAUDATING THIS YEAR AND HAS ALREADY BEEN ACCEPTED INTO A COLLEGE SO NEXT TIME YOU WANNA FEEL PEOPLES HEAD WITH LIES DO IT SOME WHRE ELSE BECUASE WHEN YOU MESS WITH OUR TOWN YOU HAVE EVERYONE TO DEAL WITH OH AND BY THE WAY NICE GRAPHICS EVEN THOUGH THOSE WERE HOUSE PICTURES TAKEN OH ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO SO PEOPLE YOUVE BEEN LIED TO TRONA IS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE THERES MOUNTAINS THE PINNACLES WHICH GIVE YOU THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LOOK AT THE SUNSET THAT IT CAN ALMOST MAKE YOUR HEART SKIP A BEAT SO YOU KNOW WHAT MIKE PUT THAT IN THE PAPER BECUASE ALL YOUVE DONE IS LIE SOMETIMES I WONDER WHAT GODS GOING TO DO TO THE PEOPLE THAT MOKE HIS WORLD OH AND PS PEOPLE MADE TRONA THIS WAY SO THINK HARD MIKE BEFORE YOU POST MORE LIES THINK REAL HARD
Posted by: cassie at May 31, 2007 06:40 PM
DEAR MIKE I THINK YOUR STUPID YOU CANT JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER TRONA IS A WONDERFUL PLACE AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT PLANT HERE HAPPENS TO GIVE MY FATHER OVER 30 DOLLARS AN HOUR AND MY MOTHER THE SAME THATS PROBABLY MORE THAN YOU'LL MAKE IN A LIFE TIME THEY GET OVER 1000 A WEEK SO SHUTUP WHEN YOU DONT KNOW CRAP ABOUT TRONA I MOVED HERE 2 YEARS AGO FROM OKLAHOMA I LOVE TRONA WAY BETTER I HAVE THE BEST FRIENDS I COULD EVER HAVE AND THE BEST SCHOOL PEOPLE HERE DONT JUDGE YOU BUY WHAT YOU WARE OR HOW YOU TALK THEY JUST SAY WE DONT KNOW THERE STORY SO DONT JUDGE THEM TAKE A LOOK MIKE AT WHAT YOUR DOING EVERY THING YOU POSTED WAS A LIE ALL THE HOUSES HAVE BEEN CONDEMED AND THERE WILL BE NEW ONES PUT UP THERE ARE 2 REST RAUNTS IN TOWN CALLED TRAILS DRIVE IN AND THE T-STOP WITH IS ALSO A GAS STATION MIKE IT'S BRAND NEW SO MAYBE YOU SHOULD GET AN UPDATE ON YOUR WEBSITE BECAUSE IT SUCKS AND SO WHAT IF ARE FOOTBALL FIELD IS DIRT WHAT DO YOU THINK ITS WRONG TO GET DOWN AND DIRTY MIKE NOBODY NEEDS GRASS FOR CIGERS AND THINGS OF THAT NATUREWE HAVE A GREAT SCHOOL WITH WONDERFUL TEACHERS AND WEVE HAD OVER HALF THE STUDENTS IN THAT SCHOOL GO TO COLLEGES THAT MOST PEOPLE WOULD DIE FOR TAKE A GIRL NAMED LASEY SHES GRAUDATING THIS YEAR AND HAS ALREADY BEEN ACCEPTED INTO A COLLEGE SO NEXT TIME YOU WANNA FEEL PEOPLES HEAD WITH LIES DO IT SOME WHRE ELSE BECUASE WHEN YOU MESS WITH OUR TOWN YOU HAVE EVERYONE TO DEAL WITH OH AND BY THE WAY NICE GRAPHICS EVEN THOUGH THOSE WERE HOUSE PICTURES TAKEN OH ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO SO PEOPLE YOUVE BEEN LIED TO TRONA IS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE THERES MOUNTAINS THE PINNACLES WHICH GIVE YOU THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LOOK AT THE SUNSET THAT IT CAN ALMOST MAKE YOUR HEART SKIP A BEAT SO YOU KNOW WHAT MIKE PUT THAT IN THE PAPER BECUASE ALL YOUVE DONE IS LIE SOMETIMES I WONDER WHAT GODS GOING TO DO TO THE PEOPLE THAT MOKE HIS WORLD OH AND PS PEOPLE MADE TRONA THIS WAY SO THINK HARD MIKE BEFORE YOU POST MORE LIES THINK REAL HARD
Posted by: cassie at May 31, 2007 06:40 PM
TRONA IS AN INDUSTRIAL TOWN. IT HAS ITS UP, IT HAS ITS DOWN.
THERES A LOT WORSE PLACES IN THE WORLD, LIKE LOS ANGELES, FOR EXAMPLE.
AT LEAST THE GOOD PEOPLE IN TRONA ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT BETTER. THERE IS A TERRIFIC MUSEUM.
MAYBE YOU SHOULD SEE THE POSTIVE IN THINGS. THE SMELL GOES AWAY IN 20 MINUTES OR SO.
Posted by: Joseph Powell at November 7, 2007 09:52 PM
Learn how to spell Cassie. You are an idiot!