Snowy New York City is...well Messy New York City

2026-01-28T03:12:25Z

This is the Manhattan Financial District - in front of my workplace, the Bowling Green subway station and park.

Snow was cleared from most of the streets, just not the lesser used side streets, and sidewalks in front of houses. Apartment complexes, yes. Small businesses and houses not so much. Also all the parked cars were snowed in.

( images of a snow bound Brooklyn and Manhattan Financial District beneath the cut )

Super called while I was talking to my mother (on the phone - mother lives over 13 hours away). Apparently there was a lot of snow on the roof and some leaks - the tenant on the fifth floor filed a potential leak complaint. ( Read more... )

And I found out what was causing the insane vibrating humming sound over the weekend, which was so bad on Sunday - I used noise cancelling headphones to block it out? ( Read more... )

Everyone is having issues with the snow. Also public transportation is a mess. The NY Ferries aren't running or with severe delays, because the Hudson and East River have frozen, and there are ice junks - making it difficult for them to navigate. Also I think the bay leading out to the Atlantic - which is around Liberty Island and Staten Island has frozen in places.

The Long Island Rail Road was having switch problems and issues with snow on the tracks. The buses are having issues navigating snow drifts as are their passengers. NJ Transit and Path trains were running with delays, due to snow removal. The subways had delays. The airports were struggling to re-open. And there were road closures due to stalled vehicles and accidents.

The Federal Government offered to send help, and the Governor of New York and Mayor of New York City said nope, we're fine. Go away. Shoo. New Jersey more or less said the same thing - we're fine, thanks, go away.

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The internet is giving me writer's block? ( Read more... )

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Texas and stupid mergers - but hey at least there's Sandman on Netflix

2022-08-06T04:05:43Z

1. I don't believe this...Governor Abbott of Texas sent several bus loads of migrant workers to NYC, which has neither the means nor space to house them.

Mayor Eric Adams is Furious After Governor Greg Abbott Bused Dozens of Migrants to NYC

These poor people. They were seeking asylum. And that asshole put them on a bus and sent them to a huge city where there's no room for him, while he lives in a huge state with a much smaller population.

2. Niel Gaiman's Sandman is on this weekend on Netflix - at last! I'd been eagerly anticipating it. And it was taking forever - there was a point in which I wondered if it would ever get an air date. Netflix is frustratingly slow about airing things.

But I'm saving it for tomorrow. I'm a third of my way through my listen of Act II Sandman - Season of Mists. The Netflix series is focusing on Preludes and Nocturns, and Dollhouse.

I'm also re-reading the comics on comixcology. I borrowed them. I did own some of them back in the day - but I got rid of those ages ago.

It is horror, by the way. I mean I just listened to a section in which a living boy is stuck in a boarding school with the dead.

3. Ugh, I went on Twitter to hunt for something else (which I'll eventually find..) and ran into this insanity from the Warner/Discovery Merger.

If you can't see it - it states that men prefer HBO content, and women prefer Discovery.

I guess I must be male? And so are most of my female friends? And my male friends must be female?

And sigh this..

Uhm, I wonder if they realize that it is called the Cartoon Network not Lifetime Channel, not Hallmark and not the dumb situation comedy network? (Can we fire market research people? Bankrupt them? Send them to the Sahara desert or maybe just an Indian Reservation in Arizona - no, the Navajho do not deserve that - send them to Death Valley. Exiled until they give up their evil marketing ways.)

I hate situation comedies, reality shows, and most if not all the content on Discovery. I love animation, serials, scripted content, and longer films. Also you couldn't pay me enough to watch American Girl specials and Degrassi.

If they do this - I may have to cancel HBO, which is ultimately okay with me, because, it's expensive. Disappointing. But it will save me - $14.99 a month, so ...

Note to dumbass television content programmers and marketing people out there? We can live without you. It's possible.

And you might want to check out how many women went to the last comic con?

Ugh.

4. I asked Twitter if I want to know who Alex Jones is - they resoundingly told me that I do not and that they envied me for having no clue who he was. From the little that I saw? I agree with them.

5. Ah, found the thread that I'd been following yesterday and today on Book Twitter.

John Maher tweets about the Penguin Random House / Simone & Schuster Merger trial

Apparently the Federal Government didn't like the fact that Penguin decided to merge with Simon & Schuster, and is calling a halt to it under the Anti-Trust act. [ I'm interested because I almost ended up working for the Director of Contracts at Simon & Schuster in 1996, and interviewed at both Random House and Penguine in the 1990s, also knew people who worked at them. Sisinlaw's step-mother had an editor at Random House.]

It's a not-so-nice insightful look inside the publishing world. And a reminder that I'm very happy to not be embroiled in it. I'm not letting it stop me from writing, revising, and potentially self-publishing my own books some day.

Snippets from the tweets (which by the way are proof that the media is definitely camped out on Twitter - and it bodes well to be very careful on the bird app - too many frigging journalists hiding out on it. Crazy workplace has told us not to - under any circumstance - to tweet about work on it. Don't worry - I won't or not explicitly.)

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Basically proof - that the devil is in the marketing. It truly is. The big houses have the money to launch marketing campaigns, the smaller ones, do not. And the books that get the marketing campaigns are the big ones, with the money.

I had an art teacher in college tell me that the difficulty with the art world was worst artists were good at business and marketing, while the better ones sucked at it. Nagel - excellent at marketing, Van Gough sucked at marketing. Same with writers - you don't have to be good to get published. Collen Hoover is horrid, but she is excellent at marketing herself. It's all about the branding, marketing, and selling. And knowing how to do it, and how to work the logarithm on social media marketing platforms.

I'm hoping the merger fails. I agree with Steven King, and the worried Jon Irving. It hurts us all, and only benefits the already rich assholes.

6. It's been a week. I'm glad it's over. For my trouble - I'm going to binge watch The Sandman on Netflix all weekend in air conditioning.

I might jump out for food. I might also clean the apartment. Laundry does need to be done at some point, I suppose. But there's no immediate rush.

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