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My flight to Fort Wayne landed a few minutes after 6pm and everything was already black and cold. I picked up my rental car and took the back roads home. As I wound back and forth on the last stretch of Yohne Road, I realized I hadn't been in the dark in a long time. In New York, referring to the hours after sunset as night is a technicality. There are lights everywhere all of the time. The towering buildings and the cabs below are constantly shining!
My headlights revealed nothing in front of me. Much like pointing a flashlight towards the sky, the beams faded quickly and never reflected. I sped following the snaking yellow line, reacting only after it arced any direction. The utter blackness made the winter night feel heavy like a draped curtain -- and I dashed to find the edge -- or at least a seam. (listening to Beck's Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime) Labels: Fort Wayne 4
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said... Welcome home, Zach! Sorry about the fresh snow and cold. Have a great Indiana Thanksgiving! 7:15 PM Melissa said... Lovely image, that. You described my drive home every day at this time of year, but it never seem that poetic before. Happy Thanksgiving. 8:40 PM mod | guy | music said... Look at this - we've got a Blogger these days. I didn't realise it meant I didn't have to sign as anonymous! Very much beside the point. Zach, are you aware that you're one of the coolest people on this earth? Because you are. I truly believe you are fantastic. 5:14 AM James McDaniel said... I remember traveling to New York City and one thing I noticed was that direct sunlight never touched my body. The buildings were so many and so tall. Austin, Tx has a little of both, five minutes on the highway and it's almost as if you're in the middle of nowhere. 12:48 AM Post a Comment |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |