I am sitting in an apartment in NYC after an joyful two days of true city fun. It is easy to lose perspective on how small Pittsburgh is in relation to a behemoth like New York. I had a couple days to wander with my friend Conor, meeting up with Vassar peeps on the way and see all sorts of interesting places and people. It was refreshing.

   One of the places we went was the Transit Museum which was a lot of very specific kind of fun. If you get off on seeing the progression of turnstile models, this is pig heaven. It is actually built in the Cross Subway Station (decommissioned obviously) and lined up against the platform are around 20 different train cars from the 1900s to today. The first ones had a wooden siding and ran from 1902 until 1964. It was still on the tracks in the sixties! There were many years of cars without AC so they had fans on the ceiling and windows that opened. I have spent my share of time in subways and the last thing I would want would be the glorious stench of the tunnels being forced into cars just to keep me cool.

   The other place of interest was the Telectroscope, an art installation with a Steampunk theme and a direct visual connection to London. These structure are place just under the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC and on the Thames in London. You can see but not speak to London and people had message boards they would hold up in order to communicate. They are lucky I didn't get my hands on it, the things I would draw probably would have terminated the exhibit and brought the police down on my ass.

   It is time to head for home, the glorious 6 plus hour drive. I am still enjoying the novelty of a laptop and the ability to take it, the tablet and the scanner with me so I could do the entire comic on the road. A modern world...

Just keep wishing for peace,
Kendall