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Jumping someone else's train

January 26, 2010 – 12:06 pm

I was mildly aware that the MTA was holding the Z train (among others) for ransom, as the do every few months. They said they would kill the Z if we didn't pony up the dough, and they appeared crazy enough to go through with it. Well, I think we did pay up, but they [...]

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She's gonna love me in my Chevy van

June 1, 2009 – 12:12 pm

Lucy makes sure nothing happens to the cat food You people with cars won't understand this, but sometimes we sit around and discuss all the things we could do if we had one. How we could go to Ikea, to Costco, to the Catskills (I don't know why we bring that up, neither of us [...]

By Jimmy Legs | Also posted in Cats, Empty Cages Collective, Good Stuff | Comments (1)

And I looked and I saw that it was good

July 10, 2008 – 10:17 am

One of the first times I took the J train out to the Halsey station, one of the many reasons I felt like I had stepped off the map was the station itself. All the stations prior to it (and after it if you get to Broadway Junction) have decorative colored glass panels adorning the [...]

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It's a sick world, sick, sick, sick

May 5, 2008 – 10:07 am

Two different trains I took this morning were delayed due to sick passengers. I like to think it was the same guy both times. At Marcy Ave, he was all like "Whoa I'm not gonna make it," but when the EMS guys arrived, he was all like, "You know what, I'm fine, I'll be okay." [...]

By Jimmy Legs | Also posted in Health | Comments (0)

Why is this night different from all other nights?

April 16, 2008 – 10:18 am

The J train has turned out to be one of the better lines in the city, but don't tell anybody. I'd rather that stay our little secret. Let the people go on fulling up petition after petition to improve the G train in the hopes that the MTA will ever give a hoot. The fewer [...]

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