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Yes, it’s the perennially irritating mea culpa. Life intervened, blogging suffered, I lived on less sleep and more money than I’ve gotten in years… and I’m slowly making my way back.
I just gave…
Wow - I have posted exactly once, for all of September
Did you guys assume I was dead?
Well, here’s what happened this month:
1) Continued temp working at ye olde publisher
2) applied for and acquired and began second job at Whimsical Ceramics R Us
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The Beautiful Girls
Before I launch into a wholesale examination of this week’s Mad Men…
Brief recap of this one particular scene - Peggy goes out for a drink with her friend from a few floors down, Joyce, who’s…
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I think I’m probably that girl nobody wants to ask what she did on her summer vacation….if by summer vacation you mean the last two weeks of August and first three weeks of September that I have…
![These are so haunting… I wonder what all the former employees are up to, and who were the last people on each of these rides before the park shut down.
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Abandoned Six Flags, New Orleans by Brynne
“This is probably the riskiest location we’ve been. Before we decided to take our chances and journey out to this iconic location, we took notice of all the stories we had heard of others trying their luck at getting in. There were rumors of a guard tentatively watching the perimeter and grounds. Other stories said that people were caught by workers or police. And it seemed to be a consistent critique. So we took a gamble and decided to go. Only, to our surprise, it was relatively easy to get in, completely vacant of any guards or watchmen, and we were pleasantly greeted by two other groups of young guys who were just exploring the park for fun. We stayed for a couple of hours and had a blast. It was an unusual feeling being in an entire rotting amusement park (almost) completely alone. “
New Orleans, USA
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This place is one of my favorite and fascinating post-Katrina stories.
More about it’s plight
For comparison, here’s what it looked like just after Katrina struck:](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l82xj5VQzD1qzfme7o1_500.jpg)
These are so haunting… I wonder what all the former employees are up to, and who were the last people on each of these rides before the park shut down.
Abandoned Six Flags, New Orleans by Brynne
“This is probably the riskiest location we’ve been. Before we decided to take our chances and journey out to this iconic location, we took notice of all the stories we had heard of others trying their luck at getting in. There were rumors of a guard tentatively watching the perimeter and grounds. Other stories said that people were caught by workers or police. And it seemed to be a consistent critique. So we took a gamble and decided to go. Only, to our surprise, it was relatively easy to get in, completely vacant of any guards or watchmen, and we were pleasantly greeted by two other groups of young guys who were just exploring the park for fun. We stayed for a couple of hours and had a blast. It was an unusual feeling being in an entire rotting amusement park (almost) completely alone. “
New Orleans, USA
This place is one of my favorite and fascinating post-Katrina stories.
For comparison, here’s what it looked like just after Katrina struck:
My GOD, that puddle HASN'T dried in years...
NEW YORK—At 4:32 p.m. Tuesday, every single resident of New York City decided to evacuate the famed metropolis, having realizing it was nothing more than a massive, trash-ridden hellhole that slowly sucks the life out of every one of its inhabitants. With audible murmurs of “This is no way to live,” “What the hell am I doing here—I hate it here,” and “Fuck this place. Fuck this horrible place,” all 8.4 million citizens in each of the five boroughs packed up their belongings and told reporters they would rather blow their brains out with a shotgun than spend another waking moment in this festering cesspool of filth and scum and sadness. Whatevs, I just got a job so I am staying in this cesspool forEVER :)
