So I'm just a great, big, doofus, dummyhead. Or some such listing of adjectives denoting my idiocy. The pictures didn't upload b...

Little and Big Round Tops Last week the luminous Mrs. V and I took a short trip down to Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The prim...

Pictures won't upload to blogger. I actually have things to post today. Arrgghhh!!!

Dog braves Staten Island traffic to guard dead companion

Yesterday I was able to make some time and spend a few hours looking at the microfiche of the WPA photos of all the block and lots on Staten...

The original St. Adalbert on Morningstar Road. I know several people who feel the new church is cold and normally I think I'd agree bu...

I've alluded to, and even posted about, several of the North Shore's lost churches. These are the ones that time and tide have ove...

So I haven't posted all that much lately. Partly it's been because of various home and other commitments but it's mostly becau...

Clinton Avenue near Prospect Avenue View Larger Map Van Duzer Street - just north of Beach Street This house, once owned by someone known as...

I posted a request for photos of the North Shore on the Stapleton section of the SILive Forums. Based on previous experiences with some of...

Here's a lovely colored postcard of the Richmond Theater on Wright Street. View Larger Map

I've put up lots of pictures of Stapleton, and particularly the Tappen Park area, so I figured I might as well put up some more. Down ...

Here are a series of pictures and their matching googlemaps shots that just happened to catch my eye. I'm sorry I haven't been pos...

Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church on the corner of Elizabeth and Delafield - another victim of the Great Methodist Collapse of the late 60...

DetroitYES is a forum for exploring the ruins and history of Detroit as well as discussing its potential futures. In 1950 the population ...

Next to my neighborhood (Cottage Hill, once Hamilton Park) are Livingston and Snug Harbor. Livingston is home to an old and storied Unitar...

So I did listen to the inauguration the other day while making a late breakfast. I've listened to most of them (as I recall) since ...

Skip ahead through all the dross to 3:54. I'm sorry, I sort of like the guy so far, but this sort of creepiness ain't helping me. ...

Sure I've already posted an obituary for him today but these are too cool not to post. I never could never have even dreamed of lookin...

And now this? Who's next? Supposedly Patrick McGoohan was sought to play Gandalf by Peter Jackson but turned it down stating simply ...