Runs With Scissors: July 2006

Happy happy Joy Joy!

It seems like some acts of human behavior are working out okay these days...

If the Mets were to finish their remaining games at their current winning pace, the Phillies would need to go 50-10 just to catch them. If the Mets were to finish playing .500 baseball, the Phillies would need to go 44-16 to catch them. Even if the Mets were to finish 20-38, the Phillies would have to go 35-25 to catch the Mets. It would take a tremendous set of circumstances for either the Mets to finish the season eighteen games under .500, or for the Phillies to finish ten games over .500 for that matter.

MiracleMets.net - A New York Mets Blog: The drama is over

Oh joy!

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RESTAURANT

RESTAURANT
Originally uploaded by Runs With Scissors.

The truck stops came as some bit of relief during a 18-hour drive from Urbana, Illinois to New York City. They were not ony place to empty our stressed bladders, but a welcomed reprieve from big-named, very recognizable resturuants and stores.

Amantha and I stopped once to spend the night in Haute Heights, Ohio near Akrin. We drove around a bit before we settled on which motel we'd spend the night in and again in the morning looking for a bookstore in hopes of buying a audio-book.

Driving along the main roads of these towns makes rattles my nerves. I'm not certain why, but the brightly colored fast food resturuants, the bold and bright facades of every nationally recornizable business screams at me, distracting me from the road and the traffic around me. It's as if each one of these businesses is trying to be as big and blod as a television advertisement.

Thinking back to the time when my parents would jam my sister and I along with piles of bags and other stuff into the back seat of a Volkswagen Beattle, I remember there being far more large billboards on our nation's roads than there are today.

Is it just me?

Williamsburg Is Boring

williamsburg is boring
Originally uploaded by Runs With Scissors.

I don't get it. i don't understand the fascination people have with graffiti.

All anyone has to do is look at Flickr's Williamsburg Group to see how much people adore graffiti. the group is filled with images of it and lost in the mix of pictures are the people who live in the neighborhood.

I'm afraid that somehow we have forgotten that people make a neighborhood special. My wife points out that it's much easier to take a picture of a painted wall than another person and I can agree with that.

'O' CHICAGO

'O' CHICAGO
Originally uploaded by Runs With Scissors.

If I lived and drove everyday in Chicago I'd have one hand on the camera, the other switching between the wheel and the stick, one foot on the camera bag, and the other between the three pedals.