Jon Decker: Grasping at Creativity

So, it’s been a couple days since I’ve gotten a chance to go outside and snap some shots. The weather in NYC this weekend was horrendous. While snow is bad enough, this freezing rain and drizzle is even worse. As I write this post I’m standing at the bitter cold Hicksville LIRR train stop waiting for a delayed train to Penn station. I don’t have my camera with me and even if I did I wouldn’t use it. The despair on the faces around me coupled with the drab grey sky could serve no appealing artistic purpose, except maybe a great ad for site to site teleportation… Just picture it, the photo shows this scene, despair in the eyes of would be passengers standing at this rain drenched platform, scrolling notices of delay displayed in faded yellow on decrepit 70’s era LED signs. In bold 50’s style propaganda font the ad states, “Teleportation: The only way to travel!” and in subtext it implicates the technophobic with, “Loyal citizens teleport to save the earth.”

So, it’s been a couple days since I’ve gotten a chance to go outside and snap some shots. The weather in NYC this weekend was horrendous. While snow is bad enough, this freezing rain and drizzle is even worse. As I write this post I’m standing at the bitter cold Hicksville LIRR train stop waiting for a delayed train to Penn station. I don’t have my camera with me and even if I did I wouldn’t use it. The despair on the faces around me coupled with the drab grey sky could serve no appealing artistic purpose, except maybe a great ad for site to site teleportation…

Unicorn Horn for Sale

Just sayin’

I’m back from a long writing hiatus. I took a couple photos in Central Park today. It was really cold; well nigh unto freezing, actually. There’s some small samples after the break. Before that, let me just say that in finally getting on the internet and reading a post that made me want to write again I left my eggs on the boil and they burned leaving my house smelling of burned toenails. Gross. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I was just doing some needed research for a period piece that I’m writing. I’m probably not the first to notice this trend, but it seems that the decade just after any major war in America comes a “golden age” of perceived prosperity that rejuvinates, among other things, public opinion of politics. Of course, that slowly dwindles into complacency pretty quickly. On that note, I think all the wars that happen are politically motivated for eventual public opinion shift; that, or else somone just got bored.