View from Smith-9th Streets F train station May 15: Gowanus to Downtown Brooklyn Tower. I am probably not the only one to find the new building reminiscent of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
Brooklyn Skyline
Abandoned Teddy
I found three foot tall Teddy, lying just like this, on 6th Street between avenues A and B.
Misty New Year Run
January 3rd was a warm winter evening to run in Prospect Park. And I was glad I did.
The Last Message
In 1977, the Fonz jumped over a shark on the TV show Happy Days. Although the show went on to have six more successful seasons, it became a symbol of decline and something that everything from baseball teams to podcasts should avoid.
We’re On For Thursday
In the initial years of Television, Game shows were a popular part of networks’ prime time schedule until a 1959 investigation revealed they were often scripted. During the 1970s and 80s, daytime TV broadcast shows like Password and 25,000 dollar Pyramid. In 1999, Who Wants to be a Millionaire brought the genre back to network Prime Time.
Paul Mason Fotsch 