Sightings, Musings, Innovations

Man with roofless gerbil cage and gerbil, on the A train.


Two other people with a makeshift karaoke machine and Nas  #BroadwayJunction


On the G train: a lady reading a Rite Aid circular like it's a novel.

Heard on the J platform: "¡ 'Ño! ¡Que frío!"

On the B44: "yo, this ain't no damn American Idol bus!"

On the B44: a little boy singing West Indian songs and coloring a page very, very brown.

On the B44: listening to Purple Rain and watching the roof of the bus leak.

On the B44: a woman with a half shaved head pensively eating potato chips

At the J train: a man holding his anger like a weapon

And sometimes...you're on the bus when it gets a flat tire.

On the 4 Train: a guy smiling, staring, and lovingly blowing air at something inside a small cardboard box.

On the B65: a woman napping, her ponytail frozen midair.

On the F train: almost got poked in the eye by the whip in the bag of the pin up girl/dominatrix sitting next to me.

On the B44: need to protect your hair from a summer rain shower? Try wearing a flowered shower cap.

On the B44: whiplash from the kamikaze taxi driver style of the bus driver

On the B65: a lady with a hole in her back

On the B44 Fashion Edition: the hottest men's accessories for spring, a construction helmet spray painted gold with a matching briefcase

A hail storm and snow. Really?

On the B65: "Don't let nobody steal your joy."

On the J train: policewoman with a gun and the last name Paradise

On the A train: a guy in granny drag

On the A train: a guy inevitably digging for gold

At the steps to the C train: a pigeon having a moment

Yesterday's A train musical edition: acapella love songs, a violinist, and a pantomime rapper.

On the A train X-Mas edition: fashionable wool dunce cap, and a hipster Santa

On the A train: a woman sleeping, wearing a down coat and rhinestone tiara

Waiting for the B44: a Christmas tree bound and gagged on a granny cart

On the F train: watching someone watch someone

Waiting for the J train: people hawking Gods, and a woman with a mop of purple hair

On the F train: watching someone watch someone

On the B43: the lady with the longest acrylic talons in the land

On the B44 bus: just passed by King Wok Taco Grill on Nostrand

Let's cancel winter this year

My voice is tired

On the B43 bus, swimming in a red bucket...a turtle

On the B44 bus: a business man in a grey, pin striped suit with a bright red graffiti art backpack.

On the A train: a man whose shoes look like crocodiles

On the A train: a woman who ate the world.

Overheard on the Q59 bus: "I gotta find me some friends with cars, yo.

B65 rainy day edition: du-rags fashioned from plastic bags, studded with raindrops

So I learned a new word today from a lady talking on her cellphone on the bus: fuckouttahere. As in "he don't want to pay my phone bill, fuckouttahere."

Another first on the B65 bus: two women eating pickles from a jar.

O lady on the bus why doth thee smell of moth balls?

35 plus hours of work plus 12 hours of classes plus 15 hours of commuting per week=one zombie

not. ready. for. more. snow. tomorrow.

the first morning of metal detectors at the entrance of the school where I teach...the kids were asking: why are they checking our luggage?

Brooklyn is like one big, dirty slushie

Had to have a tostada today...for my soul.

Visited the trash bar. actual trash outside. And a bartender with feathered hair. And hotdogs. Who knew?

had to have talks about bed bugs, nose picking, and putting fingers in mouth today...all seen in and around Room 146A.

Just had an almost 4 hour class and a candy bar

overheard in Room 146A today: "Miss Celina is invisible right now."

I'm otherwise known as "Vampire Miss Celina."

was wondering why it was like a carnival inside her head when she looked up at the sky and saw...a full moon.

I need about a week's worth of hours in a day...or some tranquilizers.

I started the daunting task of setting up my classroom.

I called upon my truck drivin' avatar today.

I got a ton of used children's books, a pair of headphones, 2 tacos, and a sunburn today.

I just witnessed a couple getting engaged on the B65 bus.

I had a girl give me her seat on the subway and a man pick up something of mine that fell to the ground today. I'm either elderly or New Yorkers took a break from being real tuff.

Done with winter. Seriously.