Oh Dog, you Sleuth!

album cover of the month!

Everybody that made me a mix tape is my favorite person. I’ll be sending you something fantastic and magical soon in the mail (it’ll probably also be a mix tape).

“Cognitive maps, formed by the brain upon first viewing a place,really don’t like to be changed, as scientists who study the way we find our way have learned. It is deeply, biologically distressing when a discrepancy between the inner map and reality is discovered. Thus, in a sense, we all truly live in the past - the map our young minds first made of home.”

from Melissa Holbrook Pierson’s “The Place You Love is Gone”, which I’m soaking up before leaving for New Orleans again.

At the bad luck Kmart in Astor Place, where I fell down the escalator and nearly lost my iPod on separate occasions.

Check out this portfolio from last week’s New Yorker about a photographer named Jerry Shore, who shot lots of Atget-like landscape shots around NY in the 70s and 80s.

Thinking about New Orleans in Tompkins Square Park.