tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post3461236347508634695..comments2023-09-26T08:04:43.755-07:00Comments on Mark Doty: More tales of the cityMark Dotyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148162515300148887noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-35691034430201388662009-03-04T19:42:00.000-08:002009-03-04T19:42:00.000-08:00That Virgin Megastore used to be a Mays store when...That Virgin Megastore used to be a Mays store when I was a kid in this neighborhood -- and across the street was S. Klein on the Square -- where all the parents would shop for school clothes when the new fall year began...the Park had al ot more kids in it.....kids everywhere...and you actually had drinking fountains that worked...fresh cool water on a hot summer day.....and book stalls all over the place. You could buy a whole library of paperbacks in one day's stroll........but I love seeing how it's changed. Behind everything are the images of what was there, and they live quite comfortably in my mind, side by side.....Philip F. Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02326858745454753374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-3834408234449619052009-03-02T18:33:00.000-08:002009-03-02T18:33:00.000-08:00The Virgin megastore had listening stations! It wa...The Virgin megastore had listening stations! It wasn't the first music store that had them but most didn't. Ah, yes, that was an internet ago.Glenn Ingersollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-59359278402697882352009-03-02T15:38:00.000-08:002009-03-02T15:38:00.000-08:00OMG...is Zen Palate gone?I have not lived in NYC s...OMG...is Zen Palate gone?<BR/>I have not lived in NYC since 1976,<BR/>but the husband & I used to visit every year for decades (last visit 2004) until we became to poor to even travel. Zen Palate was our headquarters for our visits & Union Square our center.<BR/>Jeeze... these are difficult times.<BR/>Love your work, love your blog. Dog Days is one of the most important books in my lifetime.<BR/>Wishing you the best...<BR/>SStephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05967985806955115917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-59481613615684132832009-03-02T10:16:00.000-08:002009-03-02T10:16:00.000-08:00I am glad someone posted a link to an explanation ...I am glad someone posted a link to an explanation of the clock. I was just debating what it might mean with a friend of mine outside the Virgin Store this weekend...<BR/><BR/>But what's the "magic wand" looking thing about?<BR/><BR/>I like the change and shedding of skin in NYC. I think of the Lorca poem and the image of the one drop of duck's blood underneath the subway. NYC is it's own being to me. Constantly regenerating itself, rebirth, sloughing off of cells. <BR/><BR/>Thank you for this post.ShannonElizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12977271505930674507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-74606063099538077402009-03-01T20:09:00.000-08:002009-03-01T20:09:00.000-08:00Thank you, John, that is so enlightening about the...Thank you, John, that is so enlightening about the clock; I had no idea what the numbers meant, but it's still weird about the three numbers in the middle that are always moving so fast -- because we are hurrying so swiftly toward midnight, if you look closely enough? I guess bricks and mortar always have a sense of permanence about them, even though of course they mostly possess no such thing. It's funny how when you go back to the park the trees are mostly still there, where you saw them last, or maybe it's just that if you aren't looking closely the trees just seem pretty much the same? Whereas, you know, when Tasty Delite is gone, <BR/>that's hard to miss.Mark Dotyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148162515300148887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-30574461157124754652009-03-01T18:56:00.000-08:002009-03-01T18:56:00.000-08:00Thanks for the great post. Love your blog. That se...Thanks for the great post. Love your blog. That sense of the world moving on as if we’d never been here can feel particularly unkind in NYC sometimes. It’s the seeming indifference of nature played out with all our man made stuff: buildings, businesses, fashions, fads. Nature (compared to human nature at least) can seem so detached. Sometimes it’s hard not to take these impersonal changes personally. We’re one part of nature that gets to feel things about all this change, and then we’re encouraged (mainly by suffering, attachment and the occasional bodhisattvas) to detach with insight and compassion. <BR/><BR/>FYI: I found this explanation of that endless clock you mentioned—<BR/>http://gothamist.com/2005/03/11/whats_the_deal_with_that_union_square_clock_thing.phpUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18382789945189991560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-28840850853427767482009-03-01T15:06:00.000-08:002009-03-01T15:06:00.000-08:00Bradlee's had disappeared for me into the fog of t...Bradlee's had disappeared for me into the fog of time.Mark Dotyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148162515300148887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-73943664215561079102009-03-01T11:09:00.000-08:002009-03-01T11:09:00.000-08:00Remember Bradlees in Union Square? It was going o...Remember Bradlees in Union Square? It was going out of business in--2001? The distance between Bradlees and Whole Foods. And what's coming next?Paul Lisickyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06911866990114791006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-12898551562591575582009-02-28T22:46:00.000-08:002009-02-28T22:46:00.000-08:00RI(Relative)P Consumer America.Thoughtful words.Co...RI(Relative)P Consumer America.<BR/><BR/>Thoughtful words.<BR/><BR/>Cordially,<BR/><BR/>FanStevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03918299487120583554noreply@blogger.com