April 25, 2013

On the street outside of 1487 33rd Street

Brooklyn, NY 11234

One thing you should never do in life is give up the search for single gloves as you traverse the streets of your selected locale that you inhabit. Even when you are having a bad allergy day and your adenoids are swelled up to the size of boulders and they are pressing against those impacted wisdom teeth that  the dentist in 1976 said you should have removed. Even then. Even when you are debating internally inside your keppela whether you can risk taking a real life aspirin for the pain instead of those things that have come after aspirin and because you have a messed up stomach region you are supposed to take while you know that the only thing that will take care of the pain and the swelling is a real life aspirin. Even at those times you need to realize that you will find a single glove. You will. Join hands. Sing with me brothers and sisters.  "The the universe's love will help me find a glove!." 

Beth and I were walking home together from Brooklyn College because we can these days that I am no longer imprisoned at Queens College. Not that I would say a single bad word about the two delightful years I spend in the Office Of Compliance & Diversity Programs. No..not me. I am grateful that they took me on and siphoned me away from the real world into the universe of Academic time and space. Where imprecision is an art and each decision is as permanent as a sand castle.  So we were heading towards Liam's school. We had crossed the corner of Nostrand Avenue and King's Highway. Also known as the location on the planet that keeps body shops and accident lawyers in business. I was not kvetching about the pain. Instead I was mentioning the fact that I wasn't kvetching about the pain. When...holy sweater...there it was lying in the street. A right (or left) handed glove. It reminded me that there are more important things then self centered concentration on physical pain. No...there are projects to be done. 

This is actually a nice glove. Grey pattern against a sort of second rate store brand instant cocoa brown. No interior marking but a nice glove nonetheless. (Is nonethemore a word and should it be? Hands?) 

Nice to have caught up on the blog. I am enjoying this waste of time way too much.

April 16, 2013

On the street outside of  3080 Nostrand Boulevard

This is a very spiffy glove. It is designed seriously. Nothing knit glove lets build a snowman about this glove. Nothing "Oh Susie let's you and I take a stroll in the chilly afternoon down to Coney Island to watch the conie.s"  (Coney - A rabbit, especially the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)). No this is a serious glove with a mission. Well not a mission such as the Spanish built throughout the areas they conquered and then treated the inhabitants like kreplach. Not one of those places Zorro rode into with a shoulder wound begging brother Reinaldo to nurse him back to health. Not that kind of mission. While we're at it not the sort of mission Capt. Kirk embarked upon as the guys in New Men's Dorm at Shimer College gathered on a couch wondering which little speck the Enterprise would spring from in the vast distances of space. Certainly not the following sort of mission.....

 No...this was a mission of repair of some sort. Something that needed to fixed. Or picked up and rested firmly in the palm without fear of slippage. No...friends. This is a glove worthy of respect and admiration. 

I have tried to determine who made it. The name "Safeguard" is one that anyone would want to use on anything. Gloves, fences, locks (not lox . My folks used to buy belly lox. This was not, as I remember, as salty as regular lox. All the cream cheese in the world couldn't get rid of that salty assault on your taste buds.). I so far have not been able to find a page or website devoted to these gloves. The type is very available. Knitted on the back and rubberized where the grip goes down. I am guessing if I found the factory that probably makes all of this sort of glove I could order a few thousand dozen of gloves with my initials on them. TED..Tough-Energetic-Determined. Yeah man. That would be a hell of a glove. Oh wouldn't it be gloverly?

April 17, 2013

On the street outside of 3017 Kings Highway

I was on my way back from the bank after having removed from the bowels of the New York Community Bank forty fun-filled dollars so I could buy various and sundry sundires. Perhaps I thought to buy these sundries on Sunday. On a sunny summer Sunday. Perhaps in the afternoon.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h1oRP7FfBw

Love the Kinks don't you?

This is a very nice right-handed glove  I believe it is an acrylic and wool blend and it has a black inner lining which is a dandy idea for a glove so you can keep warmer than warm. The lining is ripped away from the interior anchoring threads.  There is no brand or identifying marks of any sort on it, near it or inside of it.

The color is very nice. Sort of the color brown of those chocolate rabbits you get on Easter. Or those coins you get on Purim. Or maybe the color of the chocolate St. Nick's you get on Christmas. Or the chocolate trees you get on arbor day. Or maybe the chocolate ballots you get on election day. Or the chocolate covered Dennis you get on Dennis Day. Or the chocolate covered Doris you get on Doris Day. 
It has a heavy cuff to it and, all in all, ( or a chocolate covered box of All detergent you get on Laundry Day), a nice glove.

Friday April 19

Avenue J & East 24th Street

Brooklyn, New York

Pretty Close to Brooklyn College

This is interesting in the sense that I was sure that I wouldn't find a glove on this particular day as I strolled the streets of Brooklyn during my lunch break from Brooklyn College. I had other things on my mind, nothing urgent, just other and I had a backlog of glove to write about so I figured how likely was it that I would find a glove on this stroll? I contemplate every now and again that the chance of finding a single glove, of any sort, has be minimal only it isn't. So far I have found a glove so often that I have a backlog of gloves to write about. 

The one note above is could be q right hand glove or it could be a left hand glove. It is certainly not a center hand glove because we do not have a third arm ending a a third hand. In addition if we did where would thumb be? Would it be a center thumb hand with the fingers on either side? I do not know this at all. I just did a search with previously mentioned terms and the only center finger I got was the one that is used to convey an opinion.

This is an acrylic glove and it is black although it has a lot of dirt and leaf remnants and holds. Lots of holes.  There is not a lot else to write about the glove. I wish there was. I could make things up of course but as it is Sunday afternoon and I am having a mild but annoying early springtime allergy experience I will just let it end here. Right here.

April 18, 2013

Chicago Midway Plaisance 9:00 am

Nice Right (Left?) Handed Knit Blue Glove

 Just off 60th Street between University and 

Kenwood.

This post proves that this idea is out of hand. It has become an entity that is out of control. It also appears to be infectious. The CDC (The Center For Disease Control) has already shown up here in Brooklyn and accused me of spreading a concept/disease whose time has not come and should never come and certainly wasn't invited and even if it was we did not buy enough fruit salasd 

I would like to point out that my friend Maggie who I went to Shimer College with when it was in Mt. Carroll, Illinois many, many years ago. So long ago that a home computer was the same size as your home. When internet was an answer to the question, "Where is the tennis ball Herminone?". Shimer has moved a few times since then due to a lack of funds. It is now in Chicago. As is my friend Maggie. 

I would also like to point out that for reasons grounded in mysterious other-worldliness her "Wellingtons" are the same color as the glove. Hah...doubters of fate and greater beings who drift in and among the cosmos and have nothing better to do then to match lost gloves with wellingtons!

It appears to be a right-handed glove upright or a left handed glove reversed. It has an acrylic like color and look to it. Cotton tends to get messier while synthetics tend to keep shape longer. 

It seems small so it may be a children's glove or one of those stretchy gloves 

that cover your entire hand but not in any way that does any good when the 

wind blows. ( I should add that I am now typing this with one hand because 

Toulouse the tabby has decided that left hand is better occupied with petting

him.

It is also interesting to note that people lose gloves in more places than 

Brooklyn. My son, Oren, has posted from Philadelphia and Maggie is in 

Chicago. I will even go so far as to hazrd a guess that people lose glove in 

Greenland. However that could certainly be a problem in the depth of an ice

storm. Which reminds me to suggest you see the film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t2zWobwh0U

Which is not nearly as good as one of my all time favorite films "The Ice 

Harvest"

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi703856921/

Well thanks for joining me again on this rather odd journey. See you soon. 

Not that I will really see you soon. Its an expression. I may never see you. 

Not that I feel a need to see you. 

April 15 (Tax Day), 2013

1539 Marine Parkway

Brooklyn, NY 11234

This is really interesting. Of course that is a purely subjective judgement. I think it is reasonable to assume that finding single gloves on a street is not necessarilry something that anyone would find interesting. As I think about it I think it is also fair to conclude that, in all honesty, very few people would find this interesting and I don't care at all. Nyahhhhh!  Okay...back to why I found this found glove interesting. Today was my first day working at Brooklyn College. I had the pleasure of walking to and from with my sweetie Beth. The weather is actually quite pleasant. Bright sun. A slight chilly breeze mixing itself in with the sun warmed air. On the way home I turned to Beth and mentioned that I hadn't even looked for any gloves and doubted I would find any. I thought about it internally (I do my best thinking inside my head...don't you?) and was content with out a posting for today because it was a momentous enough day. I did not need a glove sighting and collection to in any way make it better. Then, of course, I found a glove. Right handed. It was only a few houses away from our house. What luck!! The ratio is now two rights to three lefts. As you can tell from the stuff below. Right down there. This is glove manufactured by or for North Face. I worked for Kipling for a few years. Kipling is owned by Vanity Fair which owns North Face also. Like you should care?

WOMEN'S DENA

LI THERMAL GLOVE

WOMEN'S DENALI THERMAL GLOVE

$35.00

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Synthetic gripper palms
Elastic wrists seal out the cold
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April 7, 2013

A Little Later The Same Day

In Front Of Brooklyn Bowl

61 Wythe Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11211

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This singular left hand bike glove was found in the street outside "Brooklyn Bowl" where I had gone to see the 3rd Annual Brooklyn Guitar Show. I would guess it was lost by someone who rode a bike to the show. It wasn't near any particular bike and I had second thoughts about picking it up. I did on my second exit from the show after having gone to a hot dog stand near a soft ball field a few blocks away. I did that  because the food inside "Brooklyn Bowl" seemed high and I just wanted a nosh. The hot dog was just fine and was one a buck and a half and I didn't think anything was a buck and  half any longer except for candy bars and small bags of Fritos. Who ever dropped must miss it and if anyone out there wants to let a biped know about the project I would be delighted to return the glove as long as the biped can show me the right hand glove that matches it. Seems a dandy bike glove though and you can follow the above links to learn more about it. This was the second glove I found on the same day and the collection of it was the event that sealed the creation of the blog. That last few words sound like a second rate horror movie. "The Creation Of The Blog!" Watch as THE BLOG attacks Minneapolis and destroys something or other. See as millions run screaming from THE BLOG!!! It has no mercy. It knows no fear. THE BLOG is out to destroy the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!