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Tuesday October 14th 2008, 6:00 pm
Filed under: General

(September 21) Pete called and said “I’m in Little Italy, come meet me.”

pedro

san gennaro festival
The neighborhood doesn’t like it. You think?

a bozo, made up as a clown
Drown The Clown, a regular at this festival.

it's all about the food
There’s a reason it’s called a feast.

fried everything
Lots of food. Lots of fried food.

dead muppets
Elmo and Cookie Monster learned the hard way, nobody likes a snitch.

business was brisk
It was packed with food and people.

ferris wheel
It’s always strange to see a Ferris Wheel on a city street.

nuts
Around all this food, Pete is truly loving life.

HFCS
Brought to you by, High Fructose Corn Syrup…

daishi tells me italians love fried food
… fried food, …

italian musicians
… and some Italian guys.

mural
Time to leave Little Italy.


Oh, and I didn’t know Tony had a gift shop. Invoking the Pseudoreal Rule of Gift Shops, thus ends the 2008 Feast of San Gennaro Festival.


Friday June 03rd 2005, 11:00 pm
Filed under: General

Manhunt, West Village.
June 2.

 lin ze xu.

Walking through Chinatown.
Lin Ze Xu.

 

 confucius.

Confucius.

 

 mickey d's.

In Chinatown, even the Golden Arches are labeled in Chinese.

 

 scary dude.

Slipping out of Chinatown into Little Italy,
I wandered past two of these. Scary.

 

 drunk pixie?

What is this, a drunken pixie?

 

 the arch.

Walking to Washington Square Park,
I took an obligatory photo of the arch.

 

 sadness.

I notice it says The World War.

 

 fountain.

The fountain at Washington Sq. Park.

 

 empire.

The Empire State Building, lit up.

 

 mta.

And finally, back down to Penn Station to catch a train home.