I can’t believe what I saw! This is going to totally freak you out, but… I was wandering around town after work because I’ve been spending too much time in my room and needed to feel like I had gotten out and about without spending money I don’t have. Anyhow, I went to the little park just down the road from my apartment building. Jean, you know the one with the huge stone wall. I was walking on one of the upper paths and I smelled something horrible, like death. I couldn’t figure out where the smell was coming from, but when I rounded a bend in the path I saw it. There was a huge hole in the wall that was coated in this grayish-black stuff that looked like melted plastic. For a second I thought it was a service entrance for the subway lines beneath the street above, but it wasn’t. The smell was coming out of the hole so strong. I haven’t smelled death like that since I lived in Michigan and ran across a bloated dead deer on the road while biking. This was worse though. I had to get away, but as I was backing up and before I turned around, I swear I saw something or someone moving inside the hole. Just a quick glimpse of something shiny moving in the dark, but it freaked me out. I ran down the path away from the smell and called the police, but after 15 minutes and no one showing up, it was getting dark. I did not want to be there in the dark, so I left. Apparently, no one cares about bad smells in the park. I don’t know what it was, but curiosity isn’t going to overcome the nausea I felt there, so I’m not going back. I suggest you don’t either.

Jean was working in Queens today so I had the day to myself. I went uptown to this old subway stop to grab some pictures of the tunnel as references for a sketch I’m working on. I chose the stop on the 1 train because it still looks like the subway stops from the early 20th century. The train stop is really open and has an open bridge that crosses over the subway lines. The ceiling has telltale marks of having once had gas lamps instead of the electric bulbs now in place. While I was in there a couple trains came and went. There was a point when I was the only one on the platform and it got kind of quiet. I swear I could hear the city through the southern tunnel. From the northern end of the tunnel I heard what sounded like a mountain lion, which is impossible. I guess it could have been a rail worker yelling, but it sounded more like a roar. Who knows…

Last month I wrote a report on tofurigans being used by the CANS-O corporation in one of their most popular processed meat products. This report caused such an uproar from my readers that I felt it needed a followup article. After doing some digging I discovered a bit more information about tofurigans and their origins.

Since prior to the CANS-O company tour I had never heard about tofurigans, I doubted their legitimacy and thought perhaps the spill was some sort of publicity stunt or hoax, perpetrated by the CANS-O corporation to get me to write a shocking article and have it used unwittingly as a viral campaign. I decided to check on the legitimacy of this animal believing that perhaps my eyes had indeed betrayed me. The more I looked into the origins of the tofurigan, the more unbelievable the story became. (more…)

I was walking in Central Park on Saturday. As I passed by two grounds keepers I overheard one telling the other about something weird he had seen last week. Apparently, last Thursday the Bethesda Terrace was blocked off early in the morning and guarded by guys in dark military gear. This park worker hadn’t seen what they were doing, but he said he saw a large wet object covered by a tarp being hauled out of the park on a white tractor trailer and flanked by seven or eigth black SUVs. I didn’t hear any more of the story because they got into a park vehicle and drove off. It’s new York City, weird stuff happens here all the time.

Today was swelteringly hot a muggy outside. I was stuck inside an office where they don’t have central air and by the end of the day I felt starved for oxygen even with the desk fan on high. Mid-day, the sky opened and the second world flood dropped on us mortals. In this, I was asked to go grab a New York Metro newspaper for someone at work, and I gladly rushed out into the storm to escape the incubator and stretch my legs.

Though it was pouring, the air was still thick and hot and the rain was warm on my face. As I was walking to the subway where the Metro paper is handed out, I saw a large object about the size of a car streak through the sky, north towards Central Park. I don’t know what is was but it looked like a fat missile, was grayish black in color, and had an afterburner like blue flame coming from the end. It was traveling so fast that the rain was creating a water vortex around and behind the air it was pushing. I think it may have been part of a crashing satellite or something as it looked like the rain was sizzling off the front. It passed so fast I may be mis-remembering the details, but it stands like a striking image in my mind. About ten seconds after it streaked by there was a sound like rippling thunder that trailed in its wake. I wouldn’t even have seen it except there had been lightning in the sky and I happened to already be looking up at the moment it passed.

There was nothing on the news. Oh well.