Satan's Laundromat: Returning to normal

Returning to normal

09/03/04

New York slowly returns to normal after the convention. More subway pictures than usual; my bike is still in jail. Does anyone have a plausible explanation for the "Found/Lost/Blue bag/or stolen?" one?

1001 things to hate about the convention

Nice A31 shots at capedmaskedandarmed.

New links on the left: jschumacher, Metroplus, Etsy, capedmaskedandarmed.

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In the third picture (20040903-microphones.jpg), how close were you to the microphones? Is the woman wondering what speech you're going to make? Or is it a look of love? Or is she thinking "Is that zoom lens on me?"

Posted by: devin at September 4, 2004 03:38 AM

I think it means: "(I) found (something. A) lost blue bag. (Or was it maybe) stolen?

Posted by: Joanie at September 4, 2004 04:06 AM

NYC'ers have some bad trash can aim

Posted by: rob at September 4, 2004 10:31 AM

That's a plausible parsing of the sign. But with no contact info, how does it serve any useful purpose? Mysterious.

Posted by: Mike at September 4, 2004 11:27 AM

I think it's more of a poor planing of space-- which should read "Lost Blue Bag-- Found or Stolen?" The lack of contact info is kind of bizarre, though.

How will you get your bike back, Mike? It seemed like chaos when they were loading everyone's bikes up on that police pickup truck last Friday night. Did they tag or label them?

Posted by: corie at September 4, 2004 03:43 PM

Mike, we can just take Judy's bike from the hall. I'll tell the police confiscated it.

I belive the logic of that sign is:
(header)
MIDDLE
(footer)

So it says "LOST BLUE BAG", and then "found?" at the top and "or stolen" at the bottom. It's also my guess that the sign was posted where the person who lost the bag (and who posted the sign) last saw their bag. My guess is they left leaning on a trackside pillar while waiting for a train.

There's no contact info because the person who lost the bag either 1) is a cynic (or a New Yorker) and expects nothing to be returned 2) is homeless and has no contact info 3) is a mute who was standing right next to the sign.

A quick question about religious republicans: don't they have to think that all pitfalls that Democrats suffer are the will of God? So Clinton's heart troubles are due. And I'd just love to ask W, if he loses, what he thinks of God's way.

Posted by: Rob at September 4, 2004 09:30 PM

heather's - the sequel
*beautiful*

Posted by: john at September 5, 2004 12:27 AM

What I understand from the written sign and the above posted comments is that the loser of the bag is among other things appealing, potentially, to the bag's stealer. I'm pretty surprised at this appeal - are they hoping the thief would repent and return the stolen item? Or perhaps they're appealing to someone who found the item and took it - to become a 'finder' by returning the bag, and not a 'stealer' (by keeping the bag), if they are still undecided about the matter. Maybe I'm reaching the wrong conclusions, Not Being a New Yorker.

Posted by: AK at September 5, 2004 03:37 AM

Is there such a thing as a writ of habeas bicycletus? It's been in detention over 9 days. Let my people's bikes go!

Posted by: Arline at September 5, 2004 08:52 PM

I left for college 2 days before the RNC and was completely out of touch with it. Thank you so much for your pictures, it really made me miss NY, and wish I was there for some of the madness. Keep up the good work man, you've got something really special here.