In The Vicinity of 2022 Part Two

 

 

 

 

 

In The Vicinity of 2022

 

Part Two

 

 

The hazy shades give way
to a crisp dry period

what caught my eye on my daily promenades 

Psychogeography of everyday life

the familiar and the mundane

 made strange

 

 

 

 

Candlemas  

 

 

 

 

Detail of view from my window

WHY?

as daily reminder

 

 

 

Jack London Theater 

 

 

They never seem to tire of this theme

 

 

 

 

Some people never get beyond

their killer klown phase

 

From the Chateau of Cognac

 

 

I've always been

a bit goth myself 

 

 

gothic as in Cathedral

 

Holiday dinner

 

 

Black Forest ham

with pineapple and onion

sweet potato frites

carrot broccoli olives

 

 

 

 

 

 

A gateway to Spring

 

 

 

 

Widow's Walk

at the Pardee Home

in eldritch Oakland

 

 

 

Thorny formalism

Loftophilia

 

 

They don't build them like this anymore

 

 

 

They appeal to the avoidant

 personality

 

 

 

A mansarde

a parapet

 

 

 

A refuge

 from the street 

and from the floors below 

 

 

 

 

Blue demon

 

 

 

Chinese New Year

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loud drumming and a thousand fire-crackers

 swelled nearby

I went down street to take a peak

 

 

 

 

Young Chinese guy

getting his sexy on

via a golden lion costume

 

 

 

It's a more of a guy thing overall

women keep a slight distance

from the action

 

 

 

Represent

Do many people really still believe that firecrackers

scare away bad luck & evil spirits? 

Maybe so it's all unknown

 

 

Bros bring the party elsewhere

 

 

 

 

 

If you can't play Chopsticks

 A fork will begrudgingly be provided

 

 

It's a bitey world after all 

Take good care of your teeth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Boys Fist Bump 

 

Rear entrance

to Downtown

WTF?

 

 

A Futurist chrome sculpture

of a tree

In front of another vast new high-rise

 

 

It's an insult to the trad classic

Tribune Tower across the intersection 

 

 

An insult to trees everywhere 

 

 

 

 

RADIO bar looking rather noir

even in broad daylight 

 

 

A great wall of Chinatown

close to my pad now

 

 

 

 

Valentine's Day

 

 

 

Sentimental typewriter

 

 

 

 

Another excuse for a candy binge 

Something vaguely sadistic about

the Chinese dentist office downstairs

 

 

 

Spring hits weary urban streets

 

 

 

 

 

Irrepressible buds appear

in a corrugated tree

 

 

 

 

 The year opens up

Au printemps

 

 

 

 

 Be mine

O Voodoo Valentine

 

 

Never too old 

to entertain

a young man's fancy

 

 

 

 

 

January-February 2022