I read the 200 page, $5.5 billion budget for NYPD on my lunch break today. Here is some stuff that is in there:
Originally posted in GalleryCrawl
Under Pseudonym: Erin Tireses
Robert Frost said, “in a great rhyme, the reader doesn’t know which word the author thought of first.” This quote applies to the creation of…
Sonnet 129 immediately appealed to me for its utter disgust with lust. In its extreme hyperbole, it almost seems sarcastic, ironic: not only is “lust in action” described as “th’expense of spirit” — the loss of semen through orgasm, which was commonly believed to shorten life — but “th’expense of spirit in…
Before Raven, Man was bound inside a single clam. The ground and the heavens were two shells held tightly closed by a single, slimy muscle, like the clams we know now — a creature of pure reflex and response.
Last night, NYPD took off the proverbial gloves and came down on a peaceful protest with an iron fist that made Ray Kelly’s policing feel like being treated with kid gloves.
