Dislocations
Blog URL http://timothyherrick.blogspot.com/
Located Jersey City, New Jersey USA
Tags jersey city, music, economy, contemporary, poetry, literature, memoir
Jersey City is an isthmus. I live there. Just a guy trying to get by. This blog features stuff I feel like writing about. That includes my city, my country, music, literature, the economy and life.
Latest Blog Posts
- Embankment Embarkment on Nov 19, 2009 in Jersey City Impressions
I wander as I wonder. Walking up 6th from the Mall, saw that the embankment levy had a break in it, a semi-path up the hill. An opportunity to see the famed embankment, our city’s very own plateau and future home of the Hudson County High-Line. Rug...
- Painting Primer Poles on Nov 19, 2009 in Jersey City Impressions
No, the poles were not being painted white. We’re looking at primer. Then they were painted black, the next day or two. Saw these two guys adjusting the ladder, ready to paint. Paint paint not primer. They did the same to the clocks. Missed the pai...
- Agitators Collective: Who Will Save Beauty? on Nov 16, 2009 in art Jersey City
The exhibit by the Agitators Collective at the 58 Gallery on Coles got me thinking about Beauty so much that I even posted a quote from one of my favorite novels, The Beautiful and Damned.I think the terms exhibit and installation interchangeably, bu...
- Dialog with Beauty on Nov 14, 2009 in quote popular culture
The Voice: Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.Beauty: What will I be? Tell me?The Voice: At first I thought that you would go this time as an actress in the motion pictures but, aft...
- Veteran’s Day Parade on Nov 12, 2009 in political ideas NYC popular culture
Veteran’s Day Parade in a nation fighting two wars with no armistice for either in sight. I was working in the NYC office, saw bits of the parade during my lunch break. This U-Haul float was bizarre and sad. Now, I have nothing against this company...
- Trestles to Nowhere on Nov 12, 2009 in Jersey City Impressions
Remnants of our railroad past. The iron horse splendor of days gone by, when our nation and our city had factories that exported goods, a blue collar middle class that could work for a better future for their children, and trains that carried materia...
- The Agitators Collective Show on Nov 11, 2009 in art Jersey City
I solved the secret of the unicorn. Yes, click here for the July post on the Unicorn painted on a fence somewhere west of Brunswick. The website on the fence, sort of like a photo credit, was for an artist organization called the Agitator’s Collect...
