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Hope Wins14 comments

westernqueensland wrote 1 year ago: Where to begin?  I was up and at the polls before they opened and there were 20 people there waiting … more →

Tags: Academics, Big Six, Black History, city, Colonialism, consumerism, Culture, Father & Son, History

A field of dreams?

Turigck wrote 1 year ago: It's like another gold rush, but is the race to grow crops for bio fuels such a field of dreams? … more →

Tags: alchemy2, Games, MMO, wow gold, MMORPG, benzodiazepine withdrawal, Particle Physics, World of Warcraft, Gold Farming

Times Square Ikea (Rough Post)9 comments

westernqueensland wrote 1 year ago: 12/21/07 06:11:58 AM SO I slept late today and I have not particular interest in writing, but I … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, Photography, Counterpane, aging, housing, Queens, Big Six, city

Prophet Housing

westernqueensland wrote 1 year ago: 12/18/07 04:56:38 AM So our new lives in our new apartment have started. I took Chandler to meet Ane … more →

Tags: Academics, aging, Ambition, antidepressants, Apartments, Big Six, city, Colonialism, consumerism

Moving Impotence 3 comments

westernqueensland wrote 1 year ago: 12/14/0710:46:52 AM So the movers are packing away and Linda is away at the other apartment cleaning … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, Photography, antidepressants, New York Public Schools, Ambition, Academics, Poetry, poetry revision

Hijabed Air Force ROTC Cadet (Poem)

westernqueensland wrote 1 year ago:   We’re moving tomorrow and I found two poems I had written that I thought I had keyed in.  I … more →

Tags: antidepressants, Art, elevated, Father & Son, Hosing Decision, housing, Immigration, LaGuardia CC, New York

Kiko Meets Mike I

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: I finished Harry Potter the Seventh. I think that that with class ending, will mean that I have more … more →

Tags: Art, Bike, bike racing, bike story, cheap bikes, city, Fiction, Immigration, Messenger

Kiko and Kevin 5 comments

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: 7/31/2007 6:26 AMI played soccer with Mason yesterday morning (and the day before) and twisted my an … more →

Tags: Bike, bike racing, bike story, city, Colonialism, delivery bikes, Fiction, NY, outdoors

Kiko's Patron (Reindeer Games III) and a Walk in Woodside

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: We had so much fun at Coney Island. But First, A Walk in Woodside with my best girl Yesterday was an … more →

Tags: Asian Diaspora, Big Six, Bike, bike racing, bike story, California VS Outdoors, city, delivery bikes, elevated

Bike Story (Manhattan Before Dawn I)

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: I actually got a comment, two if you count the email from one of my former students, so I give you m … more →

Tags: bike story, Cars, delivery bikes, Immigration, outdoors, Photography, Work

Riis Beach Family

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: … more →

Tags: antidepressants, beach, Love, NY, outdoors, Photography

The Horns of My Dilema16 comments

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: From my journal: 6/27/2007 6:41 AM When we came home the other day in the mail was our lottery numbe … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, Photography, New York Public Schools, urban youth, housing, Apartments, Le Corbusier, Queens

First Day Impressions2 comments

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: I just finished doing my reading for the second day of classes, and I thought I’d briefly writ … more →

Tags: NY, kids, Ambition, Teaching, Academics, 1st day of school

Saved St. Patrick3 comments

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: Today was an antidote that I needed to undo all of the St. Pats’ parades where I was called Ni … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, Boston, New York Public Schools, Ambition, UC Berkeley, Academics, st. Patricks's day parade

"Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas" "Vanity, vanity, all is vanity." - Ecclesiastes 1:2.4 comments

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: This Blog stuff, as a dear friend just pointed out is a bit of a mask. And as with any plastic surge … more →

Tags: Ambition, antidepressants, Art, Ecclesiastes, Photography, spirituality, Sunnyside queens

Fire Island, Summer '06 (Too Long)

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: OK. SO we got back from Fire Island. What a wonderful experience. It was so nice to go to the beach … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, Art, Photography, California VS Outdoors, spirituality, outdoors, @ vacation, beach, Cars

Summer OUTside

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: I was thinking about this the other day when I was writing my earlier screed against the lack of ima … more →

Tags: NY, Art, Photography, California VS Outdoors, kids, outdoors, springtime, @ vacation, beach

Springtime Observations

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: When I first came to Sunnyside, when my kids were young these are some of the springtime bservations … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, Art, Photography, Boston, spirituality, outdoors, springtime, Asian Diaspora

Year of the Pig2 comments

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: I wonder can a whole year be Trayf or Haram? It is my year. I was born in the year of the pig, Decem … more →

Tags: snow, NY, Art, Photography, Chinese New Year, tet, cold, kids


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