Cast ne'er a clout' till may is oot.
― Ed, Monday, 14 April 2008 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Yea, I haven't seen that much of central park, but its a fucking frisbee golf course compared to the places I went back home to ride my bike / take walks.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 14 April 2008 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
this weekend we had one day of summer followed by one day of winter
― gabbneb, Monday, 14 April 2008 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Spring in New York is awesome. It's like the only few weeks where you actually talk to your neighbors. Once summer comes around it's back to business as usual.
― burt_stanton, Monday, 14 April 2008 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i've considered starting a thread called "You can take the kids out of the suburbs, but you can't take the suburbs out of the kids" with a jpg of the McCarren Pool slip 'n slide
I don't understand all this excitement about the outdoors and going to parks. Call me when it's beach weather.
― Laurel, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link
what date she should put away her sweaters
August?
― Laurel, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
You crazy, parks beat beaches hands down.
― Ed, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
except when parks become beaches, e.g., that strip of McCarren Park along Bedford Ave
― burt_stanton, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, April 14, 2008 9:56 AM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
omg yah central park isnt anything compared to the colorado rockies either - oh wait what theyre not the same thing? omg
central park is easily the most brilliantly landscaped place ive ever been. id even put it ahead of the great japanese gardens for its pragmatic utility - you never see biz markie preforming in a japanese garden. theres like 20 distinct aesthetic environments flowing seamlessly into each other.
its a masterwork that you can walk through and even play frisbee golf in if you like.
― jhøshea, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Honestly, I've never been to Central Park way uptown. You know, where they filmed all those early 90s movies they show on BET.
― burt_stanton, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Hands up who's been north of the Jackie O Reservoir?
― Ed, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
it contains and is surrounded by some of the worlds great museums. its got the alice in wonderland statue and a carousel. if all the people are bugging you out you can go hide in the ramble. shit a lot of people even live there.
― jhøshea, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i have been everywhere in cp
can anyone recommend a good bio of olmstead?
― bell_labs, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Ed, you are clearly winter-crazed and will only come to your senses when bathed in the reflected glare of July sun off hot sand and lapping waves.
― Laurel, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Parks have shady trees for me to sit under.
― Ed, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
central park is pretty dope, but on a nice day on the weekend it gets absolutely crazy crowded with people. i have the same (minor) quibble abt Prospect Park, but it doesn't fill up quite to the same degree. Also, I prefer Prospect Park because it is a 5 minute walk from my apartment and has a zoo. also designed by olmstead, IIRC.
― ian, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
also, i am with ed on parks being way better than beaches. if you were a dog, you could go to the doggie beach at prospect park!
You paleskins can stay in the park, then. It'll keep you off the shore-bound highways!
― Laurel, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
word is Olmstead felt Prospect Park was superior to Central Park.
You may also want to visit Forest Park in Queens:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Park_%28Queens%29
It's more of a forest than the other two parks.
― dan selzer, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
ian, Central Park has a zoo too. it has polar bears.
― gabbneb, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i DO totally want to go to forest park.
i'd also like to let u guys all know that there are FLOWERS blooming on the tree outside my window for the first time this season.
― ian, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
but it's not a zoo i can walk to! and does it have red pandas?
central park zoo is way better than prospect park zoo fyi ian - i do got mad love for prospect park tho
― jhøshea, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, Olmsted did, and he isn't alone
yah it has red pandas and penguins <3 <3 <3
― jhøshea, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
central park is way more formal and dynamic - prospect park is more natural
central park is way better maintained - which is kinda fuckd up
― jhøshea, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
what ian zaid (tho I have never been to the PP zoo)
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
bikes around prospect park = :)
― sexyDancer, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
cutty? is that you?
― ian, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Clearing-Distance-Frederick-Olmsted-America/dp/0684865750
― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Olmstead landscaped my high school (!)
― sexyDancer, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
you wanna know about central park, you read this
― gabbneb, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
guys, there's no A in olmsted
― gabbneb, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
its so crazy how every park in boston and new york is designed by that guy
― jhøshea, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
My friend starts as a PP Zoo docent this spring! I will go to see her handle snakes & kiss the kissing pygmy goat.
― Laurel, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
SHEEP SHEARING, MAY 3 AND 4. C U THERE, IAN.
also Rock Creek Park in DC.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
xp: reminds me. what ever happened to fact checking cuz?
― sexyDancer, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
is that hands-on civilian sheep shearing?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Sheep shearing?
― Ed, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
they don't do it themselves, ed.
fact checkin cuz still posts on ILM i think. as factcheckr
― ian, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
is he tremendoid?
― gabbneb, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Doing it in the park Doing it after dark Ooh yeah Rock Creek Park Ooh yeah Rock Creek Park: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-UxdI0jh8Uk
― sexyDancer, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Mr. Que, Monday, April 14, 2008 3:06 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
so this is good que? that's the one google came up with for me but it looks like it might be super boring.
― bell_labs, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I never knew of that Blackbyrds song, and I am psyched to learn of its existence
― Hurting 2, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^
― ian, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
hey bell labs i haven't actually read that book but that's the only one I know of about olmsted. i remember when it came out, i was working in a bookstore, and it got a lot of attention here's an interview w/the author:
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba990714.htm
maybe borrow from a library instead of buying a copy and if it sucks you haven't wasted any $$
― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/mytown-newyork.html?c=y&page=2
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link