Yearly Archives: 2009
In the cold waste 3
This is the 163rd posting of the Newtown Pentacle, last one of 2009, and just about 6 months into this little project. Halfway through writing this, I had to evacuate the building due to a fire in another apartment. NYFD … Continue reading
In the cold waste 2
from Vernon Blvd., Queensboro – photo by Mitch Waxman Despite fingertips bleached to parchment white by biting wind and polar conditions, the cold waste beckons, and your humble narrator perseveres. The relict shores of Ravenswood’s 3rd world persist in atavist glory … Continue reading
In the cold waste 1
from Vernon Blvd., Queensbridge Park – photo by Mitch Waxman Fearful that I’ve drifted too far into the prurient and macabre aspects of the Newtown Pentacle, haunted by notions that infected me at Calvary and Zion, my wanderings of late … Continue reading
Like a great hand
– photo by Mitch Waxman Came across this dire tableau the other night (December 16th to be exact) here in the oft perplexing grid of Astoria’s streets. At the corner of 44th and Broadway, it seemed that some great hand … Continue reading
ChristmAstoria 3
– photo by Mitch Waxman All right, I’ll admit it- the last couple of posts about ChristmAstoria have painted the seasonal holiday in a somewhat sarcastic veneer. I grew up Jewish and have always been a little jealous of a … Continue reading
ChristmAstoria 2
– photo by Mitch Waxman Let me preface today’s post by mentioning that the anagrammatic transposition of Santa and Satan is no accident. Given the macabre sense of humor that the most high god itself is suggested to have by … Continue reading
ChristmAstoria 1
– photo by Mitch Waxman ChristmAstoria 2009… The annual occurrence of Christmas adorns the tired streets of ice struck Astoria with electrical garlands of questionable taste, speakers blare seasonally appropriate melodies from their lamp post perches, and vast hordes of … Continue reading
Remember, Remember- the 21st of December
Pour me a drink and I’ll tell you some lies – photo by Mitch Waxman An axial tilt of loathsome memories, shifting identities, and unrealized vengeance torments your humble narrator and makes him thankful that December 21st is, indeed, the … Continue reading
Calvary Cemetery Section
I’ve done so many posts on the place that I thought a catch-all page was in order- This will live in the menus to the right of the screen, and will be added to as more posts on the place … Continue reading
Some old movies
– photo by Mitch Waxman Sometimes, a humble narrator needs to admit defeat, kick off his shoes (which are showing signs of having picked up some of that queer colour observed around the odd shimmerings of the Newtown Creek) and … Continue reading
Newtown Pentacle, too 