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[redbird]

Yesterday, Andy and I were on our way to Vijay's housecooling (like a housewarming, except the place is usually physically too warm already).

The train stopped for no apparent reason in a tunnel, with a strong smell of ozone. So we got out at the next station, and walked to where we changed trains.

Along the way, we saw

* A rose, fully in bloom. In Brooklyn, in April. We have broken the seasons.

* The tail-end of a movie shoot, for something set in the late 1930s or early 1940s. Period cars, with license plates saying "World's Fair." Period signs saying "Interborough Rapid Transit" over the contemporary "1 2 4 5 M N R" signs on the Borough Hall station.

Life is cool, even if I did feel somewhat unstuck in time.

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or maybe the 1960s

[redbird]

I mentioned the movie shoot to someone who lives in the neighborhood, and also saw it. She said it's set in the 1960s--and I think she's right, given what little I know about car styles and the fact that the buses looked even vaguely familiar. It's a Spielberg project.