http://hydragenic.com/2009/10/09/checking-in-checking-out/ ... made me stronger Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:50:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://hydragenic.com/2009/10/09/checking-in-checking-out/comment-page-1/#comment-3760 Hg Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:38:40 +0000 http://wokkil.pair.com/hydragen/hydragenic.new/2009/10/09/checking-in-checking-out/#comment-3760 I feel the same way about London sometimes; my adopted home for more than half of my life. The London in my head always seems so much bigger and stranger than the one that I try to show to visiting friends. I feel the same way about London sometimes; my adopted home for more than half of my life. The London in my head always seems so much bigger and stranger than the one that I try to show to visiting friends.

]]> http://hydragenic.com/2009/10/09/checking-in-checking-out/comment-page-1/#comment-3759 Daniel Black Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:48:43 +0000 http://wokkil.pair.com/hydragen/hydragenic.new/2009/10/09/checking-in-checking-out/#comment-3759 In early spring of 2002, I took a trip to Manhattan. I went with the aggressively näive expectations of a Midwesterner, and came away underwhelmed. I anticipated <em>Metropolis</em> or some of the sets from <em>Brazil</em>. But I was only there for a weekend, and didn't have the chance nor the presence of mind to look hard enough to find the hidden volume. I mean, it's not until you look <em>really</em> closely at a dinner table that you see how much emptiness is trapped in that lattice of atoms. I even had the gall to be disappointed that people were pleasant, and that they didn't carry the sterotyped swaggering nonchalance or acidic condescension that fill media caricatures of the city. Oy. In early spring of 2002, I took a trip to Manhattan. I went with the aggressively näive expectations of a Midwesterner, and came away underwhelmed. I anticipated Metropolis or some of the sets from Brazil. But I was only there for a weekend, and didn’t have the chance nor the presence of mind to look hard enough to find the hidden volume. I mean, it’s not until you look really closely at a dinner table that you see how much emptiness is trapped in that lattice of atoms.
I even had the gall to be disappointed that people were pleasant, and that they didn’t carry the sterotyped swaggering nonchalance or acidic condescension that fill media caricatures of the city. Oy.

]]> http://hydragenic.com/2009/10/09/checking-in-checking-out/comment-page-1/#comment-3758 Hg Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:27:36 +0000 http://wokkil.pair.com/hydragen/hydragenic.new/2009/10/09/checking-in-checking-out/#comment-3758 That's what a friend said earlier, when I off-handedly said I thought I'd been a pretty inadequate tourist... "But that's what you DO in New York." That’s what a friend said earlier, when I off-handedly said I thought I’d been a pretty inadequate tourist… “But that’s what you DO in New York.”

]]> http://hydragenic.com/2009/10/09/checking-in-checking-out/comment-page-1/#comment-3757 leslee Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:20:14 +0000 http://wokkil.pair.com/hydragen/hydragenic.new/2009/10/09/checking-in-checking-out/#comment-3757 Yup, sounds like a typical New York visit. :-) Yup, sounds like a typical New York visit.

]]> http://hydragenic.com/2009/10/09/checking-in-checking-out/comment-page-1/#comment-3756 Hg Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:56:28 +0000 http://wokkil.pair.com/hydragen/hydragenic.new/2009/10/09/checking-in-checking-out/#comment-3756 Yeah, it's a tough one. What I've written above doesn't even begin to cover it, because where do you start? Far easier to reel off a list of bars that we drank in, than to try to explain what actually happens around the table. Yeah, it’s a tough one. What I’ve written above doesn’t even begin to cover it, because where do you start? Far easier to reel off a list of bars that we drank in, than to try to explain what actually happens around the table.

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