I love my metro.

What's the story behind your subway? What's its history? What's it like now? Is your underground best as a night owl or as a morning trooper, stuffed in, doing the sudoku? Did people always do sudoku on the EL? What did people do to occupy themselves when its red carpet was first unfurled or was the mere thing itself enough to fascinate?

Love your public transportation.

Assignment: First Impressions

Tim is now in Paris, and I am finally in London. We both have seen and heard some very strange things. Assignment: Report your initial findings of strange behavior in public, on the radio, inside the television box.

Assignment: 45 minutes in your childhood town.

If you had 45 minutes in your boyhood/girlhood town with a great pal that had never seen your town, where would you take them? What secret spot is most representative of you and the time long past spent there? Pick your spot. Take a picture of your spot. Why this spot?

Assignment: A nice note

Is there something you've been aching to tell a neighbor or business on your block? Sometimes it's so hard to get up the nerve. The assignment: write an anonymous note to a home or business in your neighborhood (nothing negative!) Take a picture of your note, and write why you left it. Maybe you've always admired your landlady's well-behaved poodle. Maybe you've never told the cook at your local diner just how good her french fries are. Here's your chance.

Assignment VI

Simple. Write about what lunch hour looks like in the neighborhood where you work.

assignment V

things that are sad:

-popped balloons

-lost puppies

-the last sandwich on a party platter

assignment five:

take a few photos of things that sadden you for no particular reason. maybe you see a hat on a sidewalk without a person around to wear it. maybe a boat without any water. please post photos with accompanying captions.

assignment IV

The next time you walk into work, the first computer you see, have the employee send you the link he/she is browsing, write down the first fifteen words which will then begin your next short short story. The title of the story is the link.

assignment III

1. find a home-made poster or sign in your neighborhood.
2. take a picture of it.
3. type out the text of the poster.
4. re-arrange the words to find a super secret hidden message.
5. post the photo, text, and hidden message.

Assignment II

Take a picture of the closest river / une Manche of reputable size.  Find a story, anecdote, or exclusive tell-all and share it.

Assignment I

Exchange photos found of strangers on holiday on the English Channel / La Manche and respond with a story.