meanjean

grrrrrrr.

[meanjean @meanjean]

This is my favorite MTA artwork, seen through the right side of the B/Q train as you head from Dekalb station to Manhattan:

[Justin Brannan @JustinBrannan]

Bill Brand’s Masstransiscope is still incredibly cool: a vibrant zoetrope in the old Myrtle Ave station. See it from the right side of a Manhattan-bound B/Q leaving DeKalb. A fun side effect of modernizing the DeKalb Interlocking will be seeing it at full speed, as god intended.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@JustinBrannan This is my favorite MTA art piece. I always look for it when I’m heading to Manhattan on the B or Q.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@JimmyGilbertWL @CoryBooker What is your problem?

[meanjean @meanjean]

@NYCkopp It’s also the mellowest line.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@kaiwharton @Gothamist But there was the $1mm+ reno…if you look up the “before” photos, a young person could definitely make do with what it was like before.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@jtown1010 @RonLPitts @SarahBurris I saw that she is going to U Chicago, which would require the same tear-down for the cameras.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@jtown1010 @SarahBurris @RonLPitts I totally agree. Of course they are proud of her. They just have to tear down elite higher ed for the cameras and their followers.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@bags @BulwarkClips This anti-Harvard talk is just an act to appease their conservative followers. They do still have a reality show—it’s scripted bc of course they want their kids to go to great colleges. Trade schools for everyone else.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@KnightswhosayN2 @BulwarkClips I think they are secretly very proud of her—but have to do this act because they have a huge, conservative and need to do some pre-explaining why their daughter is going to liberal, higher ed.

[HypotenuseSquared @HypotenuseQuad]

@gwoman9810 GenXers are the coolest, toughest motherfuckers around. They raised themselves right. 🤣

[meanjean @meanjean]

@AsianWinky @CraigJStrachan @TripleNetTyler Irvine Spectrum is a mall complex. 3rd St is a pedestrian mall near a beach. When things close on 3rd St, you aren’t just “stuck” in a mall in suburbia. I was in a hotel for a week next to IS. You have to walk forever just to get to the mall from across the street.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@Moviesneverdies @MeghanEMurphy @MaudMaron So can being an “older” father (in 40s and above).

[meanjean @meanjean]

@Lben @chriskh I am usually at home by 11-12. But I have to praise NYC for that one night when one of my little kids got pinworm from school. It was 2:30am when we discovered this to my horror. I immediately marched out the door, ran to the local 24hr pharmacy and was able to get medication.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@TheFarcissist @chriskh On that last note, recently spent a week in Irvine, CA. The driving and parking and lack of walking was a bit too much, but so much incredibly good and diverse Asian food in most strip malls.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@TheFarcissist @chriskh True, but *for me*, city keeps me active. I grew up suburban and revert to this crazy level of laziness when I’m back at my parents (2K steps max, daily). Being in a city works for me bc all I do is walk out the door, then I can be out, active all day, 15-20k steps daily

[meanjean @meanjean]

@chriskh My day: Bryant Park zoom call; Taiwanese meal at Gulp; Rose Reading Room to work; teen wanted to get special M&Ms in Times Square, but first stopped in to St. Pat’s Cathedral to see this mural. Then back to Bklyn for more Taiwanese at Yuan is Here.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@TheFarcissist @chriskh In my part of Brooklyn, you can wake up at 5 and go walk, bike, or jog in Brooklyn Bridge Park. On days I have to drop a kid off on upper east side for sports, I do a super long morning walk through Central Park, Times Square, Bryant Park before crowds come.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@pokeywhite @chriskh I grew up in CO, the landscape is my bones, I miss it so much. The driving I could do without. Have been in NYC since the 90s—and Brooklyn Bridge Park is my east coast mountains. Taking the Q train over the Manhattan Bridge w/ *that* view sends every passenger into deep thoughts.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@RLaspari @seeingglimpses @chriskh There was a lull when the kids were kids—we tag-team went out. But since age 11 or so, we’ve been doing things regularly—concerts, performances. I go to a museum every time I have a dr appt. Went to Bryant Park/NYPL Rose Room with teen today so we could both work on our laptops.

[meanjean @meanjean]

@seeingglimpses @chriskh Daily, since the mid-90s. My college kid thanks us for not moving out of NYC when we became parents.