It’s Friday! I spent exactly two hours looking for street parking this morning. That’s an entire 120 minutes. 7,200 whole ass seconds. So yeah, that was fun.
In honor of the TWO HOURS I spent looking for parking, I’m only recommending two things. OK OK, on to the recommendations today. Well, tonight. I’m late! Working again. Then I needed a minute to like, breathe/eat/sink into the couch. Don’t worry, I’ve risen and I can do this. Here we go.
1/ Check out this incredible resource. It’s a street view map of New York City and the surrounding boroughs between 1939 and 1941. The Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of every building in the five boroughs of New York City. It’s an incredible resource and fascinating to see what the city looked like back then.
2/ This one is a weird one, but I’m sort of processing it and thinking through it and just thought I’d use this space to sort of let it out. A podcaster I like, and have listened to for about a decade, mentioned sort of casually, that he was going through a divorce. Nothing about the show is personal to him, except in ways related to the topics discussed-it’s a politics podcast. And I just felt deeply sad for him. I don’t know him, or his wife. I’ve read their work, I’ve listened to them on the radio. I know quite a bit about them as they’ve made it public. But it just really surprised me and made me sort of…bummed. Especially now, given the chaos and sadness of the world. Also the lack of any explanation - not that it’s really something the listeners deserve, I guess. It is all just odd. So yeah, I guess I’m recommending checking in on friends and relationships right now. Being available to the people you care about. It’s a tough world that we’ve created for ourselves.
Ok, bye.