Collision Elision

Is there a good name for a collision company? Is there a bad one?

(Photo: F. Someki)

Here is The Ferry Collision on Victory Boulevard on Staten Island, through the salt-streaked window of an S61 bus. It's just uphill from the St. George Ferry Terminal and before you get to New Asha, one of the Sri Lankan restaurants on the island.

Wildlife Crossing

Photo: F. Someki

Seaview Avenue from an S52 bus. The sign reads "Wildlife Crossing." Wild turkeys, most likely, which are abundant on the South Shore of Staten Island. I wonder how they are doing with the snow. Better or worse than the owner of this car, which is parked, I am pretty sure, in a no-parking zone.

Got Mosquitos?

A problem for another day.

Manor Road and the Staten Island Expressway.

Partial Frontal

Poster for Full Frontal, Samantha Bee's new show on TBS, seen from a 7 train.

"Watch our you're sexist."

Under the Giant's Expressway

Mary Benson Park across from PS 5 in Jersey City. Route 78 above carrying traffic to and from the Holland Tunnel.

Gray on Gray

The Staten Island Expressway from Narrows Road South, approaching Fingerboard Road.

Sunblast

Checking in on the BQE from Flushing-bound #7.

Traffic moving well on a chilly Monday.

Pinwheel Boy Loves Train Delays

Posters on the subway platform at 82nd St./Jackson Heights rarely offer anything interesting to look at, much less read. So I was pleased to see this impromptu character show up on the Lim College advert.

Vying with the Cardvaark for subway mascot status?

XX

One X short of tic-tac-toe...

Citibank, Northern Boulevard.

Belt-Drive

Free to a good home: Vintage 1960's Dual semi-automatic turntable with original tinted lift-off dust cover. Staples was good about taking old DVD players, jammed shredder, and even a VHS player, but they drew the line at turntables ("We don't really sell those.")

P.S. The shovel stays in the trunk.

Los Carros!

New Years is a good time to lighten the load a bit.  That's how I came across an issue of Educación y educadores, a journal published by Universidad de La Sabana in Colombia, a souvenir from a conference I participated in there a year ago. I don't read Spanish so . . . the recycling box. But take a look a this cover image.

That's La chatarra de Jeisson (Dodge Charger), a watercolor by Fèlix Antonio Plaza Carvajal, a student at the university. Inside are more painting of the cars of friends and family, including El carro de Dona Betty (Chevrolet Desoto 1956) and El viejo Cadillac de mi abuelo (Cadillac Fleetwood 1958).

It's hard to tell from the paintings whether the cars are parked in Colombia or the United States. Either way, Que chévere! (Colombian for how awesome!)