I am in New Jersey as I tap this out on my phone. (In part; I’ve added to and edited this over the subsequent days.)
I met up with my sister and her family, and we spent the day in Manhattan walking around and going to the Oasis Pop-up Store in SoHo, because tomorrow the brothers Gallagher will be playing MwtLife Stadium.
Some photos of the day. I am exhausted. We walked approximately 8 miles, and I hurt all over.
Times Square! I’ve not been here since 2012.
I was asked at Diamond a number of times if I would go to New York Comic Con, and I would have been happy to, but I was always left to find my own lodgings, and I never thought that made any sense for a work trip.
We wandered past the Ed Sullivan Theater, home of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
From Times Square I saw a Gothic church facade, and I had to take a look. I may be an atheist, but I love me some church architecture! It was the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, an Episcopal parish.
There was a guitarist in the subway station at 42nd Street. I liked his playing. I tossed a dollar in his hat.
One side of the pop-up shop. Liam and Noel look so young in these photos, though they’re both older than I am now. Was I ever that young?
The unticketed line to get into the pop-up shop. The line went around the corner of the block, and the wait was in excess of an hour and a half.
The interior of the pop-up shop. I bought the concert program and a blue bucket hat.
The Empire State Building from the High Line. Part of the reason we walked so far.
I was looking at the back of the General Theological Seminary; a distant cousin whom I didn’t know, James Fenhagen, was the President and Dean here in the 1970s and 1980s. (Note: I knew the James Fenhagen part. I didn’t know this was the seminary until after I got home and was trying to figure out what I saw.) That was another reason I took this photo; again, the Gothic architecture grabbed my attention and wouldn’t let go.
I was fascinated by the High Line, especially the way the old railroad tracks were incorporated into the above-ground park. I thought of the rail line through Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore and how part of the line remains near my great-grandparents’ site.
Sunset over New Jersey. I’m curious what church that is silhouetted by the sun. Edited to add: It is the Monastery and Church of St. Michael the Archangel, in Union City.
And after saying I wasn’t going to buy it, I bought the unlicensed Nationals City Connect/Oasis jersey. It arrived earlier in the week — Monday? Tuesday? With that and my bucket hat, I am good.
For the moment, I will keep to myself who I had the jersey customized as. Let’s just say, it’s the Nationals player, current or former, who was, in my mind, most likely to be an Oasis fan.
Soldier on!