During a lunchtime ramble around Central Square, Fancy McCulture-Pants & I came across a bicycle on Harvard Street whose shadow had been traced in chalk earlier in the day.
Sometimes people are awesome.
Greatest Hits
- Skeletons vs. clouds
- Tofu-based turducken with rude name, pts. I-IV
- Excuse me, you seem to have forgotten your pants
- Why You Must Not Marry A Flapper
- Human rights activists
- Harvard Square is rough
- Second-run movie theater marquee, or worst personal ad ever?
- Paper titles ending in question marks
- Four-letter names
- Celine Dion, Devourer of Children
- I want pets so I can name them after typefaces
- Names of ships in court records from the War of 1812
Comments
Kit:
I wonder if Frank made it.
jm:
wow its amazing they should exicute order 66 with a lot of clones XD
Phil:
Awesome find. Its always interesting to find older pictures of the way something will work in the future, and then compare it to what actually ended up being the case.
Wow, that wasn't a question I ever expected my mom to ask. Must be a completely, totally different Katya.
Still a great interview. I usually don't give Beefeater much of a chance, but 24 actually sounds nonboring.
What a delightful read on what goes into my next favorite gin. Classic Beefeater has been my mixing gin for eons. I'm intrigued by 24, all the more so by learning of Payne's care and craft in creating it.
Not that I noticed. But I was getting over a hideous cold and not particularly interested in the beverages.
Katya's Mom just wants to know whether this is the blogger who would know whether gin was served at Fuzzy's wedding in Maine.
Every doodad is a doohickey. Half of all thingamajigs are doohickeys. Half of all doohickeys are doodads. There are 30 thingamajigs and 20 doodads. No thingamajig is a doodad. How many doohickeys are neither doodads nor thingamajigs?
Even as an insufferable teetotaler, I found this a wonderful read.
whts the answer to i am glass i am superior i am china i am placid pleassseeeeee help
Hanky Panky is an amazing cocktail. One of my personal favourites. My recipe of choice looks something like this.
2 PARTS Beefeater London Dry Gin
2 PARTS Italian vermouth
2 DASH Fernet Branca
SHAKE All ingredients over ice
STRAIN Into a chilled cocktail glass
SQUEEZE A freshly cut orange peel on top
Awesome Video Tutorial on the cocktail: www.beefeatergin.com/mixology/video.php?video =Hanky%20Panky
I'm sorry, but Zombies deserve the same rights that you and I have - they can't help that they are zombies!!! Freedom and Justice for ALL!!!!
:)
Thanks for sharing. Great post
i love u Celine and keep it going u are the best we all love you*
rich:
"opiate of the masses."
Jeez.
You should know that this blog is one of the first sites to come up in a search for the terms, "harvard square" and "crazy people" (I was seeking a couple specific crazies). While I may not have found what I was looking for, I am digging your blog.
this is gay
Wow!
Oh, you're quite right. I did not read the fine, italic print.
Icarus does not give me great confidence in their products.
rick:
i'm pretty sure that the propellant is icarus.
A couple are driving home in the dark when the car breaks down, the husband decided to walk to a petrol station for help that was a few miles back, so he locked all the doors,windows and boot. On his return there was a stranger in the car and his wife was dead,there was no damage to the car at all.what happened?????
Yeah I found this out the hard way. The people who work at the Library of Congress were none too nice about setting me straight. Most of the people that work there do not want to be bothered, I think. The people that registered me and got me my car (of which there were three) were super nice. But everyone else is either mean or indifferent. I shouldn't have even gotten the reader ID (which you supposedly need to even read anything at the LOC) because I've yet to be stopped and asked for it, even at the "researcher only" entrance! Weak.
Dear sushiesque - is there any way I can contact you offsite to ask for permission to use one of your photographs?
You can reach me at mirlac@yahoo.com
Thanks so much, and it's a terrific blog.
Still attracting the crazies, huh? It's nice to know some things never change.
Erin: I just wish I knew what I was up to.
Obo: Why are they on my doorstep?
obo:
They're fantasy sports league prizes.
Erin:
Clearly you are living a double life.
A man and woman go before a preacher in Pennsylvania to be married, but the preacher says,"I can't marry you two." Why?
perhaps we could meet up there for a (possibly very cold) picnic?
1. no; I was with my parents, and they had their own agenda.
2. I couldn't find it, but I didn't look too hard. I do hope it has not been felled.
bonus: there was an unusual quantity of big green snails clinging to little rocks in freakish clumps.
Awww, jealous-- I love Harkness. I rather want to go back there sometime soon. Two questions:
1. Did you go to Sarge's? I rather want to go back there, too. (It's where I bought my first Ace Doubles!)
2. Did you see the tree with the boob?
I wish you were around all the time so you could document my meals. Well, that and cuz you're awesome.
can you answer this?
You have a chicken, a fox, and a sack of cornfeed how do you get across with a boat that holds 2 things only t a time.
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Hey! I'm so psyched you saw this. I saw it on Bostonist, and followed the link to your blog.
That was me who made the drawing, it was actually done at night, when the streetlights cast shadows upon the bicycle (which seems to have been there for eons). I've spent a lot of time drawing chalk outlines, but have run into trouble with Cambridge cops who apparently think drawing on the sidewalk with a water-soluable material is a more heinous crime than murder and assault.
If you're at all curious, check out www.tbob.net/chalk/. The more people we can get to decorate the sidewalks, day or night, the better!!!
Posted by: Nicklebones | 23 May 2008 at 04:03 AM
I saw it too, while walking around with my friend who lives nearby. She said that the indeed-awesome perpetrator traces the streetlight shadows of objects at night.
Posted by: Editrix | 24 May 2008 at 11:39 AM
Oh, I hope this continues... I lived in Brooklyn until a year and a half ago and there was a chalk-shadow tracer in the neighborhood. Everything from bikes to parking meters and lamp-posts got the treatment, and it always, always made me smile.
Posted by: Kate F. | 26 May 2008 at 10:15 AM
How cool! We have a chalk guy in Greenpoint, Brooklyn!! I posted pics a few weeks ago.
Posted by: Elaine | 09 June 2008 at 02:19 PM