Upper West Side: Don't Even Think of Parking Here

Monday and Tuesday will be fun for local car owners as film crews take over chunks of parking spaces on three main north/south arteries. On Central Park West the permit is for C-Y-E (Curb Your Enthusiasm - I had to google it). Just one block away, another  permit will prevent parking on Columbus Ave to shoot the cryptically named "TD". And over on Riverside Drive, there'll be no cars, but there's bound to be plenty of Gossip Girl fans.
Where they gonna put all those cars?
Oh I know: Central Park.

Cartocacoethes* - The Island of Siliconia

by baad lamb

“You love Henry, but you love his kingdom too. You look at him, and you see cities, acreage, coastline, taxes. All I see is Henry.” 

Alais Capet - to Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter 

I think I understand Eleanor’s mapular degeneration.

Equal to the pleasures of viewing the earth’s surface from afar  are those of viewing it up really close. It’s not the devil, or that other guy that’s in these details, but it may well be Dr. Seuess. Sure, Horton heard a Who, but what if he had eagle eyes instead of elephant ears? No doubt he’d have seen evidence of mini worlds everywhere. As do I...

An autumn leaf obeys its genetic code and pushes itself gently towards earth, its bright colors attracting the eye.

But a deeper look reveals the distinct diagram of a fantastical fallen city: Dense networks of once-ancient trails forming a Barri Gotic, whose dark narrow lanes eventually thicken into broad ceremonial boulevards.

These inscribed arterial lifelines point the way out of the crowded city center, and continually beckon photo-synthetic adventurers to unexplored worlds beyond their cellulose city walls.
Meet Evil and Alien after the jump...