The MTA is being taken to the cleaners city dump.

Well folks, this looks like the end of the line for the MTA. Well maybe not - but this map is heading towards its final resting place. And why is the map framed? Who frames a free map!? Bah.



I know I've covered garbage before, so I thought I'd be a nice blogger and share a few links that have been sent my way recently:

My younger brother started a blog. Check it out, as it is bound to be 452% more informative than this hunk of junk. Welcome to the neighborhood, kid.

Mac users will find this run down on photography tools to be nothing short of dorky awesome.

The Dessert Truck has some new competition.

Obama's visit to Penn State's campus lives on in new football poster.

I actually enjoyed this.

For those of you that care, the ongoing $%@#show known as Albany will continue indefinitely.

Smell that? Wait until July.

Some things in life are hard to avoid. Ridiculous rent. Taxes. "Just one more drink." Lack of closet space. But garbage, well it's simply an inevitable part of life in the city. Subway bins overflow, some people smell like it, and twice a week life's leftovers are literally to the curb. Urban planners, for whatever reason, skipped the chapter about back alleys (something Chicago and Philly nailed). The bags look sorta neat all lined up in a row, but come the summer months things will smell to the high heavens. Almost as bad as the subways.

Just another garbage day.

Passed this on the way to work. The become your dream graffiti tag (click the image to enlarge) is the work of local artist James Da La Vega. Hailing from East Harlem, he owns a small art gallery on St. Marks Pl. I admit that I've never been inside the shop, but I really don't feel the need. Daily art pops up on the streets either as graffiti markings on garbage like this example or as chalked sketches on the sidewalks. I wouldn't be surprised if more of De La Vega's work shows up here during the warmer months.