things i love thursdays

short and sweet because this week has been long and difficult.

dolphins and clumsiness:

this twisty tree on my way to work:

and i also love TreeRock which is opposite this one on the other side of the on-ramp but i can't get a picture because i sit in the passenger side when i travel by car and it is on the driver side.

my brother lank who is rocking med school despite various impediments:

this photo was taken by a five year old.  they are short.  all their pictures look kinda like this which is neat.  i guess when i was five this was my perspective on the world too. i remember thinking about that a little bit when i was little.  i also thought (quite a bit) about how when i was a kid i wasn't going to know what it was like being a kid because i would lose my frame of reference (it would lose it's everydayness and be replaced by grown-up everydayness.) i'm not sure i agree with littleme on that one...  i mean it is surely different to be a grown-up but i am so often mistaken for a child by children that i think i may still have some of the original context left in me, or near enough, and i am thankful for that.  so i guess another thing i love is my child-like qualities (yes even the little voice.)

i love this barbie's very slutty makeup.  i don't know why.  i named her chantell and she is the A+ super mean b-word of the barbies at ava's house.   i love that i have a job where i get to play barbies regularly.  i also love that my girls are down with playing zombie barbies and vampire barbies and space barbies because regular barbies get pretty boring.

my niece ANNIKA!

i need to go see her. i usually see her once a month but due to budgetary restrictions (I am desperately broke right now) i haven't been to see her in a sometime and won't until the 15th of October and I miss her.

here she is studying a physics textbook in the car and here she is making a mean face:

my niece is fantastic and i think that largely owing to the big extended group of grown-ups who surround her with love and attention.  my sister is a single mom but ani has my brother, her grandma, her great-grandma, four aunts, a great aunt and multitude of second cousins in her life on the day-to-dat which is awesome.

ok there's lots more i love in this big wide world and i am just too tired to write about it.  did lots of gymming today and went to the flea market store too and got two plates with trees on them and that james frey book and a wooden duck and i think that's it.  i went to the dollar store too and bought some candy.  ok i'm done for now.

signing off

oni von poopenpants

SAVE the Pelham Parkway Trees!

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I love the trees on the parkway. My family has lived on Pelham Parkway for 57 years. I would hate to see any of the trees here go. We already lost several this year due to storms. The neighborhood loves the Parkway and I see people enjoying the wooded spaces everyday. We sunbathe, run, dog walk, bike, skate, read, smoke, play chess, date, chat, eat, drink, kiss and play under these trees. It is our piece of nature and its character will be much maligned by the loss of the trees.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/save_the_pelham_parkway_trees_29HZqhWAx30qpPahu5rVNO

 http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/13/2010-08-13_regis_to_city_keep_parkway_trees.html



There was a rally to save the trees today and I attended.  I want to make sure that our voices are heard and that the trees are protected. The mature trees are one of my favorite things about my neighborhood.  They are one of the reasons I don't mind living so far from Manhattan, and one of the reasons I just signed a new lease even though my rent went up about three hundred dollars.

Check out this New York Times slideshow featuring my neighborhood and notice a common feature in all the pictures (GREEN TREES!!)  They are what makes Pelham Parkway a beautiful place to live.  In the spring we step off the train into a green land scented with the blooms of flowering trees.  In the summer we find shade beneath the leafy green canopy and in the fall our neighborhood comes alive with a rainbow of colors.  The apple trees bear fruit and the neighborhood communes.  SAVE THE TREES!

Take a drive down Pelham Parkway South: