It seems like demolition is everywhere I look this week. Familiar pieces of my daily landscape are suddenly gone, and it's funny how much it affects me. I don't have an emotional attachment to these places, but just the fact that they were there for so long and are now absent...it makes me shiver a bit.
The building by the railroad tracks I pass by every day on my way to work (it was a...used furniture warehouse?) is now a rubbly gap. The "Gas With A Smile" station on Mass Ave. -- which I always meant to take a picture of because, c'mon, "Gas With A Smile"? -- is now dull twisted metal, abstract sculpture, coming down to make way for a shiny new Hess Express. And the huge Lincoln Park School in my old neighborhood, which used to cozy up alongside the Elmer Bumpus Bridge and always had trash stuck in the metal grills over the windows, is now completely demolished.
I suppose the landscape changes all the time, but it's certainly been more dramatic than usual lately.
Posted by thevieve at February 8, 2006 9:07 AMIt's no big loss - I stopped there a couple of months ago to fill up your sister's car and they didn't smile. Fuck them, they deserve to lose their store if they are willing to lie like that.
Posted by: Peter on February 17, 2006 4:15 PMokay - i could either write a little treatise on 'demolition man' or tell a silly flatulence joke about smiling with gas. i will have mercy and do neither.
Posted by: 'nette on February 17, 2006 7:47 PM