Can’t quit Albany. What an odd town on weekends
Someone got Brasília envy
Quite the contrast — each staring at each other from across the street
Best smoking break table
Only people here are skate guys
Even gots Brazil’s sidewalk pattern
Metaphor alert!
Check that. Found other people. Two women rolling around on ground fighting while two guys stand by smoking blunts cheering them on.
Bipolar smoking table.

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17 Nov
Alll right Albany (Sorry, capital district), it’s me & you for the next 16 miles.
Last time I was here this was a drug trap in an abandoned building. Now it’s got ironic art
Albany has always had a weird juxtaposition of historical (in various states of repair), & then modern corporate government bleh (functional yet soulless)
Read 62 tweets
14 Nov
I wrote about how core to their identity being unvaccinated is to the many people I have met in the Back row who are unvaccinated intellectualinting.substack.com/p/among-the-un…
I am writing about people over 50. Making stuff more complex is “weightlifting bros”, back row very fit young men armed with tons of data & skepticism of health sciences forged from yrs of doing their own thing. They buttress anti vaccine crowd despite very different risk profile
(For those asking, no I myself won't be getting a booster. Since I got a rather un-fun, & rare, side effect from the original vaccine)
Read 5 tweets
12 Nov
Me seeing a new bar.

(Googles)

Google.

Me: 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Gonna do some hard hitting journalism and get the story behind why only three stars. Stay tuned. Story at 11.
Five stars bitch l!!!!
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9 Nov
As someone who has literally been walking around country, I can tell you Virginia wasn’t a fluke. Unless something radically changes (mostly with a Covid crisis they can’t control), Dems gonna get crushed in 2022

Not sure there is really anything they can do about it though. 1/
It isn’t that anyone particularly loves GOP, they mostly don’t. It is that the country feels “off” & stuff feels “weird”. Again. Most of this is about a Covid crisis Biden pitched the electorate he was gonna get under control & return us to Normal. But normal hasn’t returned 2/
Also a lot of people jumped on team Biden because he wasn’t Trump. They never loved him, but he wasn’t Chaos, ranting, & volatility. He was a normal dude promising normal stuff. But That hasn’t, in their minds, materialized. Stuff is still crazy, weird, & wrong. 3/
Read 4 tweets
6 Nov
I get the downtown renovation project (good!) has a bench every x feet requirement (also good!), but could you have thought a little more about placement. And maybe sat in them first
Current view is kinda nice because the idling garbage truck & F450 filling up, are gone
Another great view
Read 4 tweets
5 Nov
My essay on walking twenty miles across Orlando.

Sixth in my Walking America series

intellectualinting.substack.com/p/walking-amer…
I have come to appreciate every city I have walked across, but Orlando has been the toughest.

The overall landscape of the city is brutal, and does its best to stamp out any community, soul, & beauty.

But it is still there. Because people need all of those.
Next piece in the Walking America series is Florence SC

Then who knows. Maybe Waterbury CT, maybe Bridgeport. Maybe Houston, Dallas, El Paso. So many towns, so little time.
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