~ javits center quotes:
 
“you look really cute in those glasses”
“oh, well thank you. have a good day”
 
“i hope you’re not an american. you should be ashamed.”
“ok. have a good day.”

~ if you pull your taxi to the side of riverside drive to piss into a gatorade bottle, our agents will spot you.

~ if you copulate on the slopes of morningside park, our agents will find you.

~ if you shoplift at westside market, our agents will ignore you.

~ lunatic on 110th street: are we at least welcome to take your books from the trash?

~ dear mayor dorn of inglewood: not having cameras in cop cars to tape police brutality is the least of our concerns. instead of trying to scare cops into not beating up teenagers, you could demonstrate to them that it is intolerable in the first place. for instance, do more than send them on a paid leave when they get caught. police brutality is not something that we should have to prevent; it should not even be possible to exist because the cretins who would be abusive are not placed in positions of armed authority to begin with. please excuse the dangling preposition.

~ heard on 113th street: “get out of harlem, white boy. you’re not welcome here. fucking…”

~ happy independence day to our readers in the u.s.. in our perpetual struggle to reconcile our tendencies towards anarchosyndicalism and our desire to celebrate the abundance of beauty and power that may still be found in this country, we are spending the day with a 1957 edition of ‘great american short stories’ and the music of phil ochs.

~ be advised that the intersection of 110th and manhattan avenue is currently being surveilled by government forces.

~ with the passing of another holiday, the residents of west harlem again have utilized morningside park to stage a demonstration on their total incapability of cleaning up after themselves.

~ “these fucking demolition guys are all run by the mob. they can make you wait three fucking hours or refuse to take your fucking dumpsters; they can make your life fucking miserable. even though gotti is dead, they still do what the fuck they want. and this poor shlep has red hair; he’s irish, so they will make him haul all this shit by himself. have a good day, guy”

~ you can walk away from the security guards at the mta bus depot in east manhattan, as they will not get up from their scooters when trying to interrupt your drifting. the security guards at the citicorp tower will walk away from you if you shout the phrase “go ahead and touch me motherfucker; i dare you.”

~ overheard at red cross donation center: “we only give platelets because we can see cool movies like ‘first knight'” -kron, 2002

~ a woman on the a train intersects the wearing of a short denim skirt with the placing one foot on the handrail. riders sitting opposite her seat are distracted from studying calvino’s texts for the remainder of the voyage.

~ today’s anticipated drift through long island city failed to materialize. instead, we continued to remain on the island today, exploring the manicured propriety of battery park city and the nationalist hucksterism of battery park itself.

~ a cop pulling over a man on the beach loses his shit over the cop car loudspeaker: “pull over to the right! pull over to the right!!! to the right!!!!!! where the bikes are!!!” meanwhile, the bikes were on the driver’s – and the cop’s – left.

~ green suited humans have been spotted taking up pieces of garbage from the sidewalk on 115th street. they placed the trash into cylindrical containers, then transported it elsewhere. perplexing.