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Broadway Sign in Sidewalk Tile | Posted: February 01, 2007

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Time was, the lights on Broadway shown bright, and it was so darn fancy that you needed to embed its name in tile on the sidewalk at the corner of Broadway and Alder. That's pretty darn fancy, you'd have to agree.

You can't quite see it from space on Google Maps.

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Notes in the Margins of the Universal Time Machine

"The river flows into the sea, and yet the sea is not filled."

We live our lives in the distant past of the distant future... if humanity has a distant future.

Right here, right now will be long ago and far away before too long.

How will future generations (should they cast their minds back to the early 21st century) imagine our lives, our choices, our cities, and our reality?

What would we choose to tell the people of the future, and would the messages and images we choose deserve any privillege over those we conveyed accidentally or sought to conceal?

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World of the future, these are the streets of my time, as they passed before my camera, long long ago.

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Behold these traces of memory from a time when the world was younger.

Featuring Old Stuff Before it Gets Old and New Stuff After it Gets Old

Also featuring obscure pithy quips that may make your head spin.

"There's gotta be a song left to sing, 'cause everybody can't have thought of everything. One little note that ain't been used, One little word that ain't been abused a thousand times, In a thousand rhymes" Gillian Welch

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