#RoadWork

[batteredshoes]

Pork Shop | NYC | 2013

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Sure, buildings can be moved, but a whole street? But that's what they were doing on June 22, 1949 just north of Battery Park. Edgar Street, a very short thoroughfare between Greenwich St. and Trinity Place, was moved 30 feet north to make room for the approaches to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, then under construction. It was reconstructed to have two lanes separated by an island.

Photo: Dan Grossi for the AP

[garadinervi]

Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024)

♥

(image: Dane Penland (photograph), Bernice Johnson Reagon, 1981. Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. National Women's History Museum, Charlotte, NC)

(on the way of Ruha Benjamin, Black Women Radicals)

[jt1674]

[muttball]

Road Closed For Repairs

[stephenkingporn]

I recently posted about beginning to condense/refine my collection and I’m happy to report by selling some books I have been able to purchase a rare book to add to my (refined) collection.

[patriciastrike]

He’s just letting off a little steam.

[bri-the-nautilus]

repaved perfumer

[mylifeinfiction]

Roadwork by Richard Bachman

Things stopped.

Honestly, I don’t entirely get all the hate for this one. Sure there’s A LOT of filler, but at its best it’s every bit as good something like Apt Pupil . And really, that's probably what this story should've been, a part of one of King's novella collections. However, even as it is—with its bloated plotting and leisurely pace—it's still not the boring train-wreck I was expecting from what I've read about it online.

King writes even the most minor characters as if they’re real, living and breathing people, and gives them all phenomenal dialogue that's unsurprisingly natural and immensely readable. The opening scene is magnificent because of this—as are several others with Sal and his goons. And the character work done on Barton George Dawes throughout makes for an empathetic spiral into madness, building up to a satisfyingly over-the-top climax that, despite ending too abruptly for my liking, is effectively—and beautifully—written.

"Roll it," he said aloud, and everything began to move.

6.5/10

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.

[dougielombax]

Roadworks going on outside my house.

[batteredshoes]

IAH | Houston, TX | 2010

[theartoffresco]

[garadinervi]

Sisterfire staff and volunteers on the porch of their office at 1475 Harvard St. NW in Washington, D.C. [Photo by Sharon Farmer, courtesy of Roadwork Oral History and Documentary Project]

Roadwork ↗

[the-final-sentence]

Then the shocked, tear-streaming face of Mary Dawes fills the screen; she is looking with drugged and horrified bewilderment at the forest of microphones being thrust into her face, and we have been brought safely back to human things once more.

Stephen King as Richard Bachman, from Roadwork

[fainfrumos]

Working, Victoria [29.07.22]

[workabroad]

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