Boston Gothic

You head down the stairs to the T to find that the Red Line is gone. It’s just gone. The Orange Line is there, and you could take it, but you are scared of clowns. You decide to walk instead.

You walk 20 minutes from North Station and find South Station. You walk another 20 minutes and find North Station again. You have not turned around.

You find a parking space but as you get another foot closer the parking space is now occupied. There was never any parking space. There are no parking spaces. There is no such thing as a parking space. Cars pull over and blink out of existence.

A chill rolls down your spine. You thirst. You are surrounded by Dunks on all sides. You go in and order an iced coffee. As you take your first sip, it begins to snow.

You struggle to pronounce the ‘r’ in “clam chowder” but it evades you. You choke out an order for anothah bowl of clam chowdah. You can’t remember what an ‘r’ sounds like.

It is a beautiful sunny day, clear and cloudless. You close your eyes. You open them. It is now pouring. A man turns to you and says “haha only in New England.” He is weeping.

You are driving out of the city for the day. You follow the signs that say I93. You follow the signs. You take your exit. You follow the signs. You are now entering the Mass Pike instead. A decrepit hand reaches from the darkness to collect your toll. No turning back now.

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all it's missing is driving down a one way street to a six-way intersection of one way streets all going the wrong way

So pretty much

If you hated An Ideal Grace, you probably don’t want to read my Big Bang.

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zwickygirl

11 years ago

My dash is exploding with Hobbit feels and I don't get to see it until Monday.

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hobbit dos

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zwickygirl

2 years ago

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zwickygirl

10 years ago

I love my Thorin/kitten mug!

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zwickygirl

10 years ago

The Whirlpool Galaxy - Sparkling with X-Rays

Nearly a million seconds of observing time with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way glittering with hundreds of X-ray points of light.

This galaxy’s official name is Messier 51 (M51) or NGC 5194, but it often goes by its nickname of the “Whirlpool Galaxy.” Like the Milky Way, the Whirlpool is a spiral galaxy with spectacular arms of stars and dust. M51 is located about 30 million light years from Earth, and its face-on orientation to Earth gives us a perspective that we can never get of our own spiral galactic home.

By using Chandra, astronomers can peer into the Whirlpool to uncover things that can only be detected in X-rays. In this new composite image, Chandra data are shown in purple. Optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope are red, green, and blue.

Credit: NASA/Hubble/Chandra/Harvard

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zwickygirl

12 years ago

This is a great likeness! Poor sad Roy - you need to draw Ed to make him feel better.