tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post1402982048934018104..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: Eyesight to the blindAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-58920631922366047232015-10-30T22:13:15.756+00:002015-10-30T22:13:15.756+00:00How long do you think it'll take the M$M to ba...How long do you think it'll take the M$M to back down RNC Chairman Reince Priebus <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/30/rnc-suspends-partnership-with-nbc-in-fallout-over-chaotic-cnbc-debate/" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a> like they did President Obama <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2009/10/21/jake-tapper-cant-figure-out-how-fox-news-is-dif/155937" rel="nofollow">[LINK]?</a>CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-10054523786712485742015-10-27T13:38:44.849+00:002015-10-27T13:38:44.849+00:00ps: Something I couldn't show Bill but wish I ...ps: Something I couldn't show Bill but wish I could've: the Main Street bridge used to be completely filled with buildings. Looking distinctly European from the river side, you couldn't tell it from the rest of the blocks around it from the street side. There are numerous photos, including aerials, but my favorite view is <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Colin_Campbell_Cooper%2C_Main_Street_Bridge%2C_Rochester.jpg" rel="nofollow">Cooper's painting</a>.Kip Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751319031224838771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-72356979742293703392015-10-27T13:34:41.968+00:002015-10-27T13:34:41.968+00:00Did I ever tell you that Rochester, NY (we're ...Did I ever tell you that Rochester, NY (we're in Pittsford these days) has its own abandoned subway? Around 1900, they rerouted the Erie Canal away from downtown, and were left with lots of canal bed and a viaduct over the Genesee River, and decided to have a subway, which was finished by about 1912. It ran until WW2, after which they wound down (Gannett used it for moving rolls of newsprint and such until about 1969), leaving a decent amount of trackbed, much of which became today's I-490, as well as the old viaduct, which is now the Broad Street Bridge, with the trackbed below becoming the city's premier graffiti gallery. If you get in it and walk, you can meet people who live down there.<br /><br />The Broad Street Bridge is also a swell place to see the back of the library, from which water sometimes gushes out of apertures that allow the old Johnson millrace to vent some overflow. The millrace runs under the library's basement, and the tracks ran over the millrace. I recorded some ghost-chaser show, hoping for interesting views of the millrace and non-public parts of the library, but they managed to make the whole thing nebulous and boring somehow.<br /><br />There is a documentary on the subway, and intrepid souls have posted videos of the existing tunnels on YouTube and such. <a href="http://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/" rel="nofollow">They have a web page</a> that also features other bits of Flour City's abandoned and feral attractions. I gave Bill Higgins the short tour of the canal and the High Falls, and he never once uttered the words "I am bored now" or "please kill me."Kip Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751319031224838771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-58898542617413104592015-10-26T10:04:23.729+00:002015-10-26T10:04:23.729+00:00Sanders "is the cool candidate"? So was...Sanders "is the cool candidate"? So was Obama. Are you trying to turn me against Sanders? ;)<br />Duncan Mitchelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05304723745550906958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-1916069822584296182015-10-25T23:16:04.465+00:002015-10-25T23:16:04.465+00:00Those continuing attempts to get the CFPB under th...Those continuing attempts to get the CFPB under the thumb of the financial industry shows just what a need there is to have it strong. good to watch.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17553541514560319083noreply@blogger.com