Larry Staub – PopWars

May 14, 2012August 17, 2019

Dogs Run Free

Fort Schuyler in Elison Park, Rochester, New York

We stopped by my parent’s place to visit on Mother’s Day and went out for a walk in nearby Ellison Park. We ran into Dee Dee and her dog. She told us she had been here every day for three years now. She said she imagined my parents’ neighborhood as an ideal place to live, so close to the park. Little did she know my parents moved there to be close to the park and then were both chased out by dogs whose owners let them run off leash despite the signs that state “Dogs Must Be On Leash.” We must have seen fifty or so dogs running free. Apparently Parks Director, Larry Staub, does not work on Mothers Day.

A log cabin in the park called Fort Schuyler, a 1938 recreation of the 1721 trading post where Senecas and the French swapped for furs, has the smallest windows I have ever seen on a building, maybe just big enough to shoot an arrow through. That’s one of the windows on the far right of the photo above. I took a flash picture of the pitch black inside and came up with the shot you see when you click on the photo. I had an urge to post a nasty photo after Angel Corpus Christi gave me this shout-out and this blow-up fits the bill.

My brothers and sisters and their families came and went yesterday and eight of us wound up down at Vic & Irv’s for dinner. We tried squeezing in one booth but split up when an adjacent booth opened. My mom and I each had a vanilla shake and split an order of onion rings. Vic & Irv’s changed management over the winter and was closed for a bit but Lynn is still behind the grill and I’m happy to say the food is every bit as good as ever.

Grrrr

Yellow paint on trees near ponds in Durand Eastman Park.

I like graffiti but it certainly has it limits and that’s why they call it graffiti. Some idiot has marked a well traveled path around the ponds and through the park with these yellow markings. The yellow looks like Rust-oleum’s “Sunburst Yellow” and the little rectangles are sort of intriguing. Small touches of color take on monumental proportions in the grey/brown landscape. But this group marked the trail over and over again on straight-aways where there could be no confusion as to which way to go. All this so a bunch of idiots can follow each other through the park in some sort of race on paths that others take every day? Grrrr.

I know County Executive Maggie Brooks has her hands full reigning in the free spending, cigar smoking, strip club going public works employees but I bet somebody knows who did this. We could make a citizen’s arrest.

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October 21, 2009August 23, 2019

Man Improves Nature

Fallen tree in Spring Valley before Mr. Bulldozer Man — Fallen tree in Spring Valley before Bulldozer Man plowed a mud highway through one of the prettiest parts of Durand Eastman Park

When I retire I might just hang around the hall of Justice all day. There are so many interesting characters coming and going, court workers, lawyers, the cops and undercover cops, the gang bangers, the accused and their families, the judges and Bulldozer Man. Today’s proceedings were pretty swift. Two lawyers huddled with Judge Elliot. There was some chuckling involved but we couldn’t quite hear what was being said. Monroe County’s attorney wants restitution and Bulldozer Man’s attorney argued that his client was only doing improvements to the park. A new court date was set for 1:30 on November 10th. The fallen tree above is no longer lying across the path through Durand Eastman Park. The BullDozer Man and his crew removed it before they plowed their new mud highway through one of the prettiest parts of the woods.