secretlynice, fresnel, Liberty, Liberty Plaza

secretlynice/misswest blog
I love how she looks like Kate Ceberano
with Hula Hoop & Turtle:
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Global Warming cant be fixed, except with a fresnel lens at L1
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Liberty Now

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The history of One Liberty Plaza, it was US Steel HQ

We're only making plans for Nigel
He has his future in a British steel
We're only making plans for Nigel
Nigel's whole future is as good as sealed, yeah
And if young Nigel says he's happy
He must be happy
He must be happy
He must be happy in his work

I worked on floor 44 for a year in 1980
Bankers Trust
(Wankers Truss as the Pommie programmers called it)
Came over from London with a bunch of Brits
Me and the world selling out our ideals
Futures, Options, I never got rich.
A big water cooled IBM
One day the cooling pipes broke and water pooled over the floor
Another time I entered the stairwell, discovered the doors was one-way
had to walk down 44 flights of stairs.
Printouts showed illegal loans to Pinochet.
We used to watch the robot window cleaners prowl up and down the WTC2 rails.
We couldnt see the top of WTC2 from our window.
At night Broadway ruled a glittering line uptown
At Lunch we would sit by the big bronze spherical sculpture
and joke that the concentric patterns in the plaza made a good target for
Soviet rockets.
CBGB, Lou Reed, Crowded House..
I lived first in Bay Ridge Brooklyn [Saturday Night Fever 2001 Odyssey nightclub floor lights are now on sale]
Then moved to E23rd
Bought an electric typwriter, typed huge letters to Father,
who didnt keep them...
Had a Buddy who made light shows from colour TVs
Carter's Iran rescue failed, Reagan got in,
John Lennon got shot across the park
Yoko released a video about skating on ice.
I got a great haircut in St Marks Plaza, got 3 job offers.
I left town.