william_kent
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My ROYAL CELTIC blood makes me more NORTHERN than the snide back talking cunts, so fuck them
I can trace my ancestry back to an exiled Irish king ( back when 'king" meant the hardest man in the village )
vershy versh
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36⁰ here in Kefalonia lads, at 9pm, and the footie is on the big screen by the pool shortly.
Murphy
cat malogen
Today’s a bit more fuckin like it. Had an early lunch in the sun and it shows. Problem is witnessing all the hobbit-toed flip flop crew around town, jfc and while I’m not against the open displays of human flesh, only rock it if you got it - there’s a cut-off point everyone knows exists
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
temperature has been above 30 degrees for the last few days and i've always been intrigued how this seems to bring out the worst in people. so many seemingly schizophrenic people or persons with other mental disorders out on the street. so many people shouting, talking to themselves, walking about naked. does this happen in london and new york as well @shakahislop?
shakahislop
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here there's a high level of aggro at all times but it gets a bit worse in the summer. we're three weeks into relentless heat and humidity that hardly drops at night, it's the most it's affected me, i've become an indoors person coz it's by default hot and sweaty every time you're outside of AC. people are on a bit of a shorter fuse. but it's like that anyway all the time.
there's always a lot of seriously mentally ill people about in nyc as well. it's a distinguishing feature of the us in general. i don't know if it's any worse in the summer. yesterday though i was in a coffee shop i work in downtown and i saw through the window someone roll up on a liberated citibike and steal a bit of watermelon from some ladies selling watermelon slices on the street. then half an hour later heightened people started coming into the coffee shop asking to use the bathroom to wash blood off their hands, coz someone (i think one of the seriously ill people who are about) got hit by a car on the same corner. i looked over my shoulder and there was a crowd of people standing over someone on the floor. the ambulance came and after they got him away they hosed the blood off the street. last week someone walked into that coffee shop with their dick hanging out. but this stuff is basically normal really.
i like that coffee shop coz it's in chinatown and right in the thick of things. it's the same reason i like downtown nyc as well. everyone is there. a lot of brooklyn and queens is more chill and basically nicer places to be. they're both pretty segregated in that very american way. neighborhoods tend to have two or three types of people in them. downtown is like a shatter zone which contains everyone. the other day five 18 year oldish chinese looking girls done up for insta came into the coffee shop and did a photoshoot on the chairs, doing poses and all of that.
there's a binding together of affect that happens with weather. everyone going through the same thing.
vershy versh
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Summertime chrome nine, gotta watch my back
Weather's warm, liquor in him, don't know how to act
Kush burnin', bottles poppin', homie that's a fact
Top down, we don't know you, homie getting jacked
Crime rate going up, police can't take it
Weaves sweatin' out, these bitches out here gettin' naked
Parkin' lot turned to clubs until somebody barks
Now they bustin' slugs, that's what weather does
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
love these kind of descriptions! scorching nyc! it reminded me a bit of this poem even though it is about philedelphia and not nyc:
Watermelon City”, a poem by Elizabeth Alexander,
Philadelphia is burning and water-
melon is all that can cool it,
so there they are, spiked
atop a row of metal poles,
rolling on and off pickup trucks,
the fruit that grows longest,
the fruit with a curly tail, the cool fruit
larger than a large baby, wide
as the widest green behind, wide
vermilion smile at the sizzling metropole.
Did I see this yesterday? Did I dream
this last night? The city is burning,
is burning for real.
When I first moved here I lived two streets over
from Osage, where it happened, twelve streets down.
I asked my neighbors, who described
the smell of smoke and flesh,
the city on fire for real.
How far could you see the flames?
How long could you smell the smoke?
Osage is narrow, narrow
like a movie set: urban eastern seaboard,
the tidy of people who work very hard for very little.
Life lived on the porch,
the amphitheater street.
I live here, 4937 Hazel Avenue, West Philly.
Hello, Adam and Ukee,
the boys on that block
who guarded my car, and me.
They called him Ukee because
as a baby he looked
like a eucalyptus leaf.
Hello, holy rollers
who plug in their amps,
blow out the power in the building,
preach to the street from the stoop.
Hello, crack-head next-door neighbor
who raps on my door after midnight
needing money for baby formula,
she says, and the woman
who runs in the street
with her titties out, wailing.
Hello, street. Hello, ladies
who sweep their front porches each morning.
In downtown Philadelphia
there are many lovely restaurants,
reasonably priced.
Chocolate, lemon ice,
and hand-filled cannolis
in South Philly.
Around the corner
at the New Africa Lounge
in West Philadelphia
we sweat buckets
to hi-life and zouk,
we burn.
mixed_biscuits
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Philly was the hottest place with the most crazy people I had ever seen.
Murphy
cat malogen
an uncompromising city with a justifiable reputation for belligerent drunkenness, offset by one of the most delightful train stations anywhere, proper public transport (well, with hindsight), canals, ridiculous food and a penchant for card games on lazy Sunday afternoons with German/Irish/Italian ladies
whole east coast south of PA is swamp, did a ton of gigs around Occoquan‘s inlets - pvt boat clubs run off rickety jetties, 2 out of every 3 attendees in some form of defence bracketed/DoD jerrrb
most surreal observation was a consistent network of Russian lifeguards who staffed all the public pools during summer’s brutal heat - DC/govt defence contractors, Russians, affairs resulting from marriages of convenience, what could possibly go wrong ..
whole east coast south of PA is swamp, did a ton of gigs around Occoquan‘s inlets - pvt boat clubs run off rickety jetties, 2 out of every 3 attendees in some form of defence bracketed/DoD jerrrb
most surreal observation was a consistent network of Russian lifeguards who staffed all the public pools during summer’s brutal heat - DC/govt defence contractors, Russians, affairs resulting from marriages of convenience, what could possibly go wrong ..
Murphy
cat malogen
humidity of that kind isn’t something we have to contend with, you can loathe it or embrace it, must have more southerly dna because after a week it’s just humidity, everywhere you go has air con too so respite is readily available
people work outdoors in both hot and cold temperatures which would be considered borderline illegal here - any significant building project expansion or roadway maintenance scheme they just crack on
people work outdoors in both hot and cold temperatures which would be considered borderline illegal here - any significant building project expansion or roadway maintenance scheme they just crack on
vershy versh
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My primary exposure to Philly's old skate vids when everyone was filming at Love Park.
shakahislop
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it shut a few weeks ago, effective immediately, no indication or warning. it just stopped opening one day. someone on instagram has written something about the landlord asking for more rent. i've been going there for years and know the guys and its suddenly one day just not there. same as st vitus closing earlier this year, we were going to see sumac on a sunday in march, it got shut down by the city on the friday, and then it was just gone. there's a harshness to that.
vershy versh
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Anyone else got snow?