The motion that appears in a lot of the photographs, for me, emphasized the breaking up of a world, the breaking up of society, emotionally. Everyone was there. America came out to mourn, to weep, to show their respect and love for a leader—someone they believed in, someone who promised a better future—and they saw hope pass by in a train.
a daily briefing from the archives of the New York Times:
- “Some boys were annoying August Levin on St Paul’s avenue, Jersey City Heights yesterday, when he picked up a stone and, throwing it with great force, struck James Gorman, aged ten years, in the mouth, knocking out several teeth and badly disfiguring him. Levin, how had just completed a term in the Penitentiary, was committed for trial.”
- “Charles Jackson, a colored man, accidentally shot and killed himself at Englewood, Bergen County, yesterday, while carelessly handling a gun.”
- “Coroner Ellinger held an inquest yesterday in the case of Hezekiah Stephenson, who died at the Chambers Street Hospital from the effects of a pistol-shot wound accidentally received at the hands of Thomas Connors. The jury rendered a verdict of accidental death, and censured Connors for ‘going into the room where Stephenson was, as he had no business there.’”
- “Charles Gilbert, an Orange newsdealer, stole $500 from his wife’s trunk yesterday, and, it is supposed, has gone to Europe.”
DO NOT open bottles with your teeth! You will chip your teeth! Many of my molars are rounded off from being chipped by beer caps. As a result I can’t even do this trick anymore. As a substitute, I recommend using your eye socket. I can’t do it, but I saw it once and it’s pretty crazy. JK - DONT USE YOUR EYE SOCKET!
Schaap puts his frenzied memory and his obsessive attention to the arcane in the service of something important: the struggle of memory against forgetting—not just the forgetting of a sublime music but forgetting in general.
it was weird… the muttering, the crashing, the cheetos
Do not tell them they smell bad straight up.
