Havermeyer and South 2nd Construction + Stocks

Real Estate,Stocks — phongalong @ August 13, 2009

Havermeyer and South 2nd

There have been many articles and reports on the construction halt, but around my Williamsburg neighborhood, I’ve seen continuing work. This one is on Havermeyer and South 2nd. Real estate is fascinating to me now that I’ve become such a greedy bastard. It might also be related to my architecture background, where I enjoy the practicality of architecture to make a buck (the vernacular) versus the architecture of big “A” Architecture.

On a side note, I bought 180 shares of SOL at 5.42 because it dropped enough compared to the price I bought it at other times (this is my “strategy”/god I’m gonna lose money/I love gambling).  I hope it goes up or down today (it’s the early AMs) so I can get more or sell off.  Flatness makes the day unexciting.  I’m gonna post a weekly recap of my stock movements using SnagIt screen shots because I am unadvanced like that.

SOL 2009-08-12Ohs to the Nos or Yay.  We’ll see.

Titling is Hard Work

Literary Pickpocket (stolen) — phongalong @ August 10, 2009

I love my mom, and I’m glad I still get to talk with her like when I was younger.
But the problem with spirits and cell phones is you never know when they’re in the room watching to see if you pick up.
Or if they are going to give you the advice they remember from when you were in high school.
“I told you that you should have taken auto shop. Did jazz piano teach you to change a tire?…
and you really shouldn’t be smoking, you want to die of cancer before your kids are grown?”

Teale Fristoe, 2006, Girdwood, AK

- Chris Lee

Get Me Off The Ground

Photographs I Took,Roosevelt Island,Song Suggestion — phongalong @ August 9, 2009

airplane crop 1

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“It’s gonna take an airplane
To get me off the ground.
I don’t blame anyone who isn’t sticking around,
Cause when you stick around (when you stick around!)
People like to put things in the ground.
Now, in my
Evil empire I
Am going to be a star in the night sky
Above. “So you think this is love?”
Yes, I guess so,
At least something to make it from…

Dressed like a dream dreamt by Lola magazine,
Baby you were born to be seen.
And art’s just the start!
Now step inside the Widowmaker
And listen to your heart!
Always ‘the play’, never ‘the thing’…

(Submarines don’t mind spending their time in the ocean…)”

Tears

Things That Make Me Cry In Futility — phongalong @ August 8, 2009
  • Unsweetened Un-ketchup
  • Frozen Egg Product
  • Pizza Soup
  • Clinical RESOURCE Fruit Beverage
  • Pork Skin Gelatin
  • Welsh Rarebit

On a side note: freaking vegans, making things out of other things, making things hard to categorize.

  • American Flavor Pasteurized Process Cheese Product Singles
  • Fruit Protector
  • Hand Held Chicken Pie, Frozen

Too Many Birds (But Not Nearly Enough)

Photographs I Took,Roosevelt Island,Song Suggestion — phongalong @ August 5, 2009
roosevelt island pidgeon

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Hmm, the song information isn’t showing up, so here:

Bill Callahan
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Too Many Birds

Walking slowly on a cool summer night is the greatest thing in life. The silent proximity of friend is pretty fucking great too.

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