NIGHT GALLERY

CROWD CONTROL

NIGHT GALLERY

THE HAUNTED AQUATICS CENTER AT BROWN UNIVERSITY

Providence’s general lack of pretension was only matched by it’s seeming insouciance to crime. Most of the police seemed to be situated at the bus terminal outside the Biltmore where we stayed; the 7-11 nearby doing it’s traditional job of being the local shit magnet. Though we wandered all over the place at night and didn’t feel particularly worried about getting mugged or hate crimed, it still was a bit strange to just wander into the unlocked Aquatics center on the holiday-empty Brown University campus. The whole center was being torn apart for a remodel, the locker rooms in particular disarray, sauna shut down, swim suits, caps and miscellaneous locker contents strewn all over the place. The pools were empty, giving the deck an eerie, cavernous quality. I never thought a pool could creep me out in such a melancholy way.

JOY

Best part of Christmas is when it’s over, but it’s not over yet until you’re heading back from the movies and try to hop an E out of 14th Street station to get to someplace warmer like 42nd to wait for an A.

“Uh Oh” says Cara as we see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven sleeping/passed out/fucked-up passengers/zombies in what seems to be the designated homeless/crack/drunk/other car we happen to get on and quickly hop off.

RINK

NIGHT GALLERY, PROVIDENCE R.I.

In homage to H.P. Lovecraft.