tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4603482534208424360..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Not Necessarily a Rest StopUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46128530700725059582012-02-18T21:05:19.149-08:002012-02-18T21:05:19.149-08:00Thanks, Akeith.
I like your late Greyhound leani...Thanks, Akeith. <br /><br />I like your late Greyhound leaning against that guardrail (speaking of rest stops.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19780026725470431252012-02-18T19:12:59.147-08:002012-02-18T19:12:59.147-08:00Nice poem...but great photos.Nice poem...but great photos.Akeith Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07901655384498253421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25470099838025987692012-02-18T14:11:30.297-08:002012-02-18T14:11:30.297-08:00Vassilis, it's ALWAYS fifteen to three in the ...Vassilis, it's ALWAYS fifteen to three in the morning in that particular convenience store parking lot, and it's ALWAYS a quarter to four at that Bail Bonds Agency.<br /><br />Beautiful yellow console turntable, turn turn turn!<br /><br />In the winter time in Pereslavl, we take our fun where we find it.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41626519153187629972012-02-18T13:20:37.079-08:002012-02-18T13:20:37.079-08:00Imagine it's 1961, you're inside the bail-...Imagine it's 1961, you're inside the bail-bond agency with that jug of white lightnin' and it's a<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoopfp5iaKw" rel="nofollow">Quarter to Three</a>!vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73432604471080420442012-02-18T08:23:58.613-08:002012-02-18T08:23:58.613-08:00The bus station is another favoured spot, where th...<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/T-atspz-2010jan05.jpg/1280px-T-atspz-2010jan05.jpg" rel="nofollow">The bus station</a> is another favoured spot, where the local Fashionables meet and greet. They say a bus actually stopped here once, sometime late in the last century.<br /><br />The wind blows clear and cold and 180 proof.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49005388984286251402012-02-18T08:07:11.976-08:002012-02-18T08:07:11.976-08:00Da.
In fact true nonfiction legend has it the mod...Da.<br /><br />In fact true nonfiction legend has it the modern screw-cap was invented in <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/H-proezdnaa-10-6954.jpg/1280px-H-proezdnaa-10-6954.jpg" rel="nofollow">this building in Pereslavl</a>.<br /><br />But the march of science is inexorable, and leaves only ruins in its wake.<br /><br />(Just kidding, they're to be having the gardeners in on Monday!)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54457207355324952762012-02-18T07:38:50.794-08:002012-02-18T07:38:50.794-08:00almost feels science fiction except it is non. and...almost feels science fiction except it is non. and the science a bit screwy.gamefacedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562522181852339258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6954847478495821122012-02-18T07:16:58.575-08:002012-02-18T07:16:58.575-08:00And that's one heck of a welcoming filling sta...And that's one heck of a welcoming filling station. Lovely place to spend one's saved-up Gulag ration coupons.<br /><br />The splendid touch in the bail-bond agency shot is the moonshine crock holding the door open. All the better for flight from circulation?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17576746800691939162012-02-18T06:47:45.547-08:002012-02-18T06:47:45.547-08:00Well, that's a nice start to the weekend. I l...Well, that's a nice start to the weekend. I love the shape of this and am a sucker for service station photos like this one, but especially bail bond store fronts. I remember once finding myself (in San Diego of all places) in a hotel that was sited next to a bail bondsman. It was deeply unsettling and I thought that whoever made my reservation either had something against me personally or was from way out of town. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.com