{"id":13065,"date":"2011-10-31T00:11:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T04:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=13065"},"modified":"2011-10-31T00:11:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T04:11:37","slug":"have-a-horrifying-audiovisual-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/have-a-horrifying-audiovisual-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a Horrifying Audio\/Visual Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

For audio frights, check out my recently promised<\/a> murderous playlist at 33 avenue Miquelon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR MY PLAYLIST POST.<\/a><\/p>\n

For visual terror, yesterday’s New York Times had a feature called “When the City Was a House of Horrors<\/a>.” It’s about John Conn, who photographed the New York City subway system in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which was a very scary time in New York. I’m not sure if my favorite historian, Barbara Tuchman, was referring to New York in particular when she wrote the foreword<\/a> to her 1978 book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century<\/a><\/em>, but her words are as good a description of that period of the city’s history as any (the bold emphasis is mine):<\/p>\n

\u201cDisaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place. Besides, persistence of the normal is usually greater than the effect of disturbance, as we know from our own times. After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening \u2014 on a lucky day \u2014 without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was during that era that I decided I wanted to live in New York City. While you ponder the perversity of that, I’m going to John Conn’s website to buy a print of his photo of a knife being dangled out of the window of the No. 6 train.<\/p>\n

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Photo by John Conn via the New York Times. Click to go to Conn's website.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Times said Conn was at the last stop on the No. 6, in the Bronx, “when he heard a laugh, followed by, ‘Hey — yo, this be a good photo!’ Then he saw a hand clutching a blade through the window.” This is the kind of image that will be a treat to look at every day. I’m not tricking you. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For audio frights, check out my recently promised murderous playlist at 33 avenue Miquelon. CLICK HERE FOR MY PLAYLIST POST. For visual terror, yesterday’s New York Times had a feature called “When the City Was a House of Horrors.” It’s about John Conn, who photographed the New York City subway system in the late 1970s…<\/p>\n

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