David Bonowitz

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Buildings. Earthquakes. Public policy. Functional Recovery <--> Community Resilience. Giants baseball. Princeton hoops. contact: djbonowitz (with a 'j') at gmail

L'Absinthe by Edgar Degas
East 42d Street building with buckled columns in the news 7/7/26. Left: Altered building today. Right: Same building before the project showing rough location of the cantilevered addition and suspected location of 2 original columns (now buckled) below the addition.
My guess at where the buckled columns are, based on video posted earlier today and this photo of the north elevation by Dave Sanders of NYT. Left: A cantilevered addition, in progress. Right: The existing columns just below the addition, with two that appear buckled similar to photos posted online by others.
Ralph Steadman's painting of a police chief's convention, from Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson. Buncha jarheads milling around a hotel lobby looking pathetic in sports shirts and plaid Bermuda shorts.
Screen shot of my feed moments later as Cape Verde equalizes Argentina at 2-2 in extra time.
Screenshot of my feed seconds after (Messi-led) Argentina went up 2-1 over (massive underdog) Cape Verde in overtime in the 2026 World Cup.
A still from the movie "The Bad News Bears" showing the ragtag Bears with uniforms sponsored by Chico's Bail Bonds with their logo -- which I just noticed for the first time now! -- of the Liberty Bell and in quotes, "Let Freedom Ring."
A still from the movie A Clockwork Orange, showing the gang of four thugs, in gang uniform, walking along a paved surface with a pool of sorts on their right.
L'Absinthe by Edgar Degas
An image of a rough wooden model of the Trojan Horse from Greek mythology, found on from Etsy.
Screencap of a scene from the movie Downfall (best known for the meme-ified bunker rant) in which Hitler plans a grandiose reconstructed Berlin with his architect Albert Speer -- including a triumphal arch.
Robert Duvall (who died today) as Tom Hagen in The Godfather. He obviously knows that Michael is hiding in Sicily but, as always, is thinking like a consigliere even when talking to Michael's fiancé Kay, played by Diane Keaton (who died last October).
Phil Lewis' photo from earlier in this thread, cropped, with Trump's name redacted by a black rectangle, mimicking the redacted Epstein files released earlier today.
Meme image: Alice in Wonderland and Dorothy Gale (from Wizard of Oz), w/ Alice saying "I've seen some weird shit."
Jon Cusack at Game 3 between the San Diego Padres and Chicago Cubs, 10/2/25. A Cubs fan, Cusack is standing with both hands raised in a "WTF" gesture about an overturned call at 2d base. The pose (though not the attitude) is identical to Cusack's character's pose, holding a boombox over his head, from the movie "Say Anything."
A still from the movie "A Clockwork Orange" showing two police officers arresting the protagonist, a former gang leader. The terrifying irony is that the two officers are his former gang members (his "droogs"), equally comfortable with violence and crime but now happy to be doing it cloaked with the impunity of a police uniform.
A joke "pangram" solution to the 7/12/25 NYT Spelling Bee: TACITULN, instead of TACITURN, in order to use all, and only, the 7 available letters.
screen shot of the 7/12/25 NYT mini crossword, completed, showing BLUESKY as the answer to 7 across: "Left-leaning social media site"
At Azadi Tower in Tehran, December 2012, with Prof Farzin Zareian (UC Irvine), Prof Bill Anderson (NAS), and Eric Fujisaki (PG&E). Photo taken by Prof Yousef Bozorgnia.
A shot of the New York Times "Connections" game board for 6/13/25, showing DOG, POTATO, and POINT OF VIEW selected, on the theory that the category is obviously "Things associated with darth."
Screen shot from the game highlights video of a 4/16/25 baseball game, won by the San Francisco Giants, 11-4, over the Philadelphia Phillies. The shot shows two fans in conversation: on the left, a woman in Philliies gear, including a white pinstripe jersey over a maroon hoodie; on the right, a mustachioed man in Giants black and orange jacket, hat, and mardi gras (?) beads. The man is looking at the woman with a smile and mischievous side eye pose reminiscent of the portraits of Frans Hals.
National League West standings after the games Sunday, April 6, 2025, showing the San Francisco Giants in first place (8 wins, 1 loss) with a 7-game win-streak.
End of the game, Ivy League men's basketball semi-final. Score shows as Yale 59, Princeton 57. The shot clock has expired and the red light is on. But the game clock/score bug shows 0.1 second remaining due to a discrepancy when they started the final play. Princeton's Blake Peters, on the floor after crashing for a rebound, flips the loose ball in desperation toward the hoop. It went in, but they ruled the game over.
Final play of the Ivy League men's basketball semi-final, March 15, 2025. Yale leads Princeton 59-57. Princeton starts its final play. The game clock (or is it just the broadcast score bug?) says 5.4 left, but the shot clock (which should match the game clock) says only 4.7!
A cartoon (drawn by Gary Larson of the Far Side) of the parable about the blind men trying to describe an elephant, each one getting a piece right, but none able to see the whole picture. The overall caption reads, "To resist effectively, we need to understand that Trumpism is ..." and the individual descriptions have been replaced with: Competitive authoritarianism, Patrimonialism, Techno-optimism & privatization, Christian nationalism, a mafia-style protection racket, and re-segregation.
A cartoon (drawn by Gary Larson of the Far Side) depicting the parable about blind men describing different parts of an elephant so that none of them has a complete picture. Here, they are describing different explanations of Trumpism: Competitive authoritarianism, Patrimonialism, Techno-optimism & privatization, Christian Nationalism, Re-segregation, and a mafia-style protection racket.
The April 1989 cover of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, giving the score of a recent basketball game: "[heavily favored #1 seed] Georgetown 50, Princeton 49." The photo shows Princeton's point-center Kit Mueller dribbling and being guarded by Georgetown's Dwayne Bryant.
Kayakers in McCovey Cove in San Francisco celebrate catching a "splash hit" homerun hit by SF Giants catcher Patrick Bailey. Occupants of the bright yellow kayak: a smiling man in a white Giants jersey and black Giants cap, a woman in an orange Giants tanktop holding the ball aloft, and a happy dog between them wearing an orange bandana.
Batman Bonowitz, c.1967