2:31:10 – 395 West 49th Street, “The Dark Tower” series of books by Stephen King, visiting the real location of fictional events, my interview with cartoons on Americast 19, song “Touched By The Hand of Cicciolina” by Pop Will Eat Itself, Hello Nurse, reality can be easier than fiction, visiting downtown locations mentioned on early 1960s Jean Shepherd shows, gulf of time, Food Emporium incident, Worldwide Plaza, red velvet donuts at 7-11, Foon Dice, new tax day, deadly storms over the weekend, cartoon crossovers in Fringe, Leonard Nimoy, are we a form of cartoon?, Source Code (2011), home theater, Bubble, Thor, watching Cheers on NetFlix, the warm analog audio on Cheers, the pleasures of listening to processed audio, computer simulations of vintage equipment, Buffalo Trace bourbon, working on the book, aspect ratio, human warmth, Taxi, Shelley Long, the influence of previous decades, premiere of The Game of Thrones on HBO, fantasy maps, socializing, the lure of videos and videogames, Bit.Trip games (Beat, Runner, Flux), revamping Bryant Park, Portal 2, Steam, Need For Speed Underground, night city, weird noise, life out of balance, urination dream, time travel dream of buying a candy bar in the 70s, Silly Putty obsession, dollar store putty, caught up on Naruto and Bleach, Atlas Shrugged, Battlefield Earth, song “Lady Picture Show” by Stone Temple Pilots, klutziness, smashed a mug and Advil, Tardis Hoover, putty formula, Cheers robot lawsuit, Hop poster candy reflections, my Uncle Ralph died today, Pennsylvania recordings from a decade ago, Betty Nora, new 2012 Volkswagen Beetle, Beetle Adventure Racing, 99 Cent Dreams, dollar store expansion, Overnightscape Central, Special Olympics synchronicity, whatever happened to cyberspace?, Second Life, OpenSim, OSGrid, Americal Idol, Jennifer Lopez, song “Heavy Metal” by Sammy Hagar, sitting in Times Square, Penn & Teller Bullshit, MLM, Wonderland, Disney video billboard, Asgard, Mortal Kombat, man caves, pica-pic.com (handheld game simulations), Motorola Atrix, Palm Foleo, Foon Dice playtesting, jeopardy family of dice game (Pig, Farkle, etc.), ABC cancels two long-running soap operas, the decline and current status of U.S. daytime soap operas, Dark Shadows, Podcast Alley, the pagan lifestyle, Petland Discounts, gerbils, space shuttle controversy, Korg Monotribe, Korg Wave Drum Mini, FedEx trivia, old Federal Express TV commercials, rest room quotes, completely random memories (survival kit, change machine trick), Moonlighting, buried memories, Star Wars, how many calories does wind have?,  rock and roll music, Lady Gaga theory, the arrival of the “aliens”, genetic modification, clean up this mess, subway beggar, guitar player, Swedish Fish Italian Ice, wireframe model of a Land Rover Evoque with cyberspace projections, thought it was called “Voque”, the persistent theme of combining fictional worlds with the real world, a nickel from 1940, beeping, coffee cart, this world seems like it could be a computer simulation, multitasking can affect your memory, spending days in a daze, the real world seems unreal, library, the teen scene on the mezzanine, humans as cartoonish, things are degenerating, noodle place weirdness, lit R fault, psychic noise, drugs, hope that the changes are for the better, art stars, it’s called “Evoque”, old TV show “Automan”, new season of Doctor Who starting this weekend, BBC America, and Whovent 86.

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2:01:11 – Sitting in Times Square in the morning, American Eagle, man caves, inflatable vermin, MLB Fan Cave, Tower Records, The Cheesecake Factory at Willowbrook Mall, matrix fear, freshly night, alternate reality scare, Fun N Games, The Purple Room, Arcade Memories, time travel, sitting next to a rusty humanoid statue, Wonka Giant Chewy Sweet Tarts, egg albumen, nasty treat, Roald Dahl, yerba mate beverages, Tudor City Greens, garbage bag fence, Late July Sea Salt By The Seashore Snack Chips, annoying charities, cutting in from the future, hard to open bag, trying the chips, chia seeds, thunderstorm, in the breezeway, 50th anniversary of manned spaceflight, what a disappointment, Intrepid Museum in NYC getting the Space Shuttle Enterprise, Smithsonian, cause marketing, the smooth jazz The Weather Channel plays over its local forecasts since the 1980s, the long-awaited launch of Photo-Lettering.com by House Industries, the profit motive, candy gone bad, raiding the 20th Century for content, the movie “Alien”, lost fonts, Corridor of Losers, Jamba canned energy drinks, bland statements, opera, Multiple Master fonts, MyFonts.com, the new movie “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1″, cults, bus line confusion, time travel in the show itself, anger at the bus terminal, bus accident, weekly idea, The Frank Ralph Nora Show, Space Shuttle update, repetetive news broadcasts, fish update, sports in Afghanistan, The Sound of Silence, Brazil subway, the red velvet craze, raiding the 20th Century is okay, Beanie Babies, inflated collectible values, Rowe-Manse Emporium, Grand Central, meth dream, rancid mushroom soup, shuttle hut, the worst action figure ever – Talky Tina, evil dolls, Profiles In History – film props and animation auctions, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 2001 spacesuit piece, Dick Van Dyke, onomatopoeia , Whitney Museum, Lady Gaga, George Segal, giant elevator, art works, sparkly plastic, cool stairwell with benches, sit by fountain, Dwellings, short films “Shadow”, The Road Warrior, River Phoenix, Herbal Corn, Nutella & Go!, remote walk, Mohegan Sun, Indian casinos, Atlantic City, dollar store products, Superhero Comic Book Spectacular, New Universe, Trio Blendables Outdoor Fusion, coin pushers, Fruit Ninja FX arcade game, DuMont Network, restrooms that switch places, Manson font at MoMA, Family Guy, Statler and Waldorf, critical puppets on the wall, wrestling videos, WrestleMania III, and Bobby “The Brain” Heenan.

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1:32:48 – Turning the wrong way onto a one-way street, photo shoot in Times Square, the Oregon America The Beautiful Quarter – Mount Hood, the concept of the “Radio Trip”, hallucinogenics, The Fantasy Trip, sequence, random access, hypertext, Aerie Obliviana, Choose Your Own Adventure, Andy Kaufman, Taxi Mighty Wallet, black and yellow, Saturday now, in the car, errands, inspection sticker message, cookies, bagel store, messenger bag, laundry place, parking lot, Wells Fargo color scheme, itinerary, music at the gas station, tooth joke, traffic at the bridge, hooded lights, gas prices, double-decker trains, driving error, indecision, Botany Village, Micro Center in Paterson, bad area, Abbot & Costello, endless coffee, confusing roads, Fair Lawn, an important location in ABM history, comic shop, witchcraft store, coconut coffee, Anything But Monday Magazine, crash and burn, Route 4, blue laws, a visit to the revamped Bergen Mall, parking deck, Elastica, dune buggy, remembering the old mall, drink coffee and walk around a mall, the new lower mall closed off, giant Game Stop entrance, Whole Foods, comfy chairs, the old bridge across the highway, Ulta New Media, soothing saxophone music, The Outlet at Bergen Town Center, square construct, 70s-style lights, giant fish tanks with weird fish, the first mall lamprey?, soothing music, code of conduct, Easter Bunny, Hot Shots Golf 3 on PS2, Target, drain cleaners, dismal soy milk section, Archer Farms, kitty litter, kettle bells, and Storm Water.

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1:29:42 – Some sort of microchip on the ground, zero fuse, brick codes, Chapter 63, tumultuous month, Onsug ideas, Audiodicals, idea for a book called “The Overnightscape Underground Radio Trip”, Severe Repair, broadcasting from the middle of nowhere, blurring the lines, ephemeral vs. permanent, mystery dinner “Murder Under The Marquee” by The Country Gate Players, my fellow commuters, fast birds, interview with cartoons, The Gunslinger, kinetic sculpture, my cousin Vinny, Foul Rift, Asbury, new store, the theme of wastelands, Whitney museum, the emptiness of life, genetic manipulation, street numbers, Africa, theatrical immersion, interactive theater, subway alarms, Tamara, the Audioworlders concept, Panasonic 3D TVs, Avatar, 3DS, flaws of 3D display systems, a virtual audio world, wrestling, church bells, the ephemeral nature of theater, Jean Shepherd, creative outlets, the love of acting, the relative permanence of Internet radio, books, perceptions of media, Eric Woolfson of The Alan Parsons Project, cat treats, rusty and shiny statues all over Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, mingling, fictional layer, watching wrestling videos on NetFlix, WrestleMania, rewriting history, seeing Star Wars in 1977, kayfabe, Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football, examining the statues, and the other people.

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