Robb Todd's Blog
October 27, 2015
Two murmurations of starlings swirled over the warehouses along...
Two murmurations of starlings swirled over the warehouses along the river. The sun set behind the island. The city is cold again, wind on the roof scraping my face while watching the city light up. Radiator hissing–inside, downstairs–where for dark months we will wait for the sun to come back, the clocks to change, wait for something else.
September 24, 2015
A Walk Through Washington Square on the First Day of FallA...
A Walk Through Washington Square on the First Day of Fall
A little boy said: “I like to think about things that don’t have answers. What does nothing look like? Who created God?” He licked his vanilla ice cream cone. “What if everybody is in a big, big dream?”
A man wore a black leather jacket with spikes all over it, and across the back from shoulder to shoulder was a lesson in the power of kerning. It was unclear whether the words in white paint said FUCK THEM ALL or FUCK THE MALL. (Either wa...
June 7, 2015
Opera and basketball at Washington Park in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Opera and basketball at Washington Park in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
December 27, 2013
THE MORNING BEFORE THE EVE OF THE NEXT DAYA woman sitting on the...
THE MORNING BEFORE THE EVE OF THE NEXT DAY
A woman sitting on the steps of a church says, “Spare something for food?” Most of her teeth are missing.
"Here, do you want some food?" A man holds out a bag. She looks away from the bag and says, "No thank you, I don’t eat that." She chants her mantra to other passersby: "Spare something for food?"
"Homeless people operate on a bad business model," a man in a suit says as he walks by. "Go back and get an MBA, dummy!"
She asks the next person who pass...
July 14, 2013
TRAYVON MARTIN
Full confidence in the ‘Merican justice...
TRAYVON MARTIN
Full confidence in the ‘Merican justice system. Never set a guilty man free/innocent man to prison. 100% accuracy on the death penalty.
April 18, 2013
A walk through Washington Square Park on the first nice day of...
A walk through Washington Square Park on the first nice day of spring in New York City. The park was busy. People were sitting and eating and walking and talking and feeding animals and kids, and cleaning up after animals and kids, and dancing and playing music and stretching out on the grass. Somewhere and for some reason: bagpipes. At the end of the audio, a few guys have a conversation about women while a grand piano plays in the background and some change hits the bucket. Then birds chirp...
February 20, 2013
MY NAME IN CHALKIt was better when we were stealing from them,...
MY NAME IN CHALK
It was better when we were stealing from them, these things that linger on our skin. Instead, just twisting caps and pulling corks.
He duct-taped huge wine glasses to her hands and said, “Can I be slightly racist? It smells like the bathroom of an Indian restaurant in here.”
“No,” she said. “You talk so much shit you have halitosis.”
She wore silk and denim and leather. He filled the glasses with red to the rim. He wore sneakers and a smirk.
“This’ll make you tough,” he said....
December 22, 2012
LOVE HEIST ACCOMPLICEKittens are overrated. People forget that...
LOVE HEIST ACCOMPLICE
Kittens are overrated. People forget that they become cats. The way people forget that the trash they throw on the ground does not pick itself up. The way people stand in doorways. Motherfuckers standing in doorways!
A dude grabs the sliding subway door. He slips in when the door pops open. As it closes again another guy runs up. He drops a box cutter and it slides into the gap and disappears. He grabs the door and pushes his way through. He stands in the doorway. He yells...
December 4, 2012
THEY'DN’T’VE’D
We all start out as swimmers....
THEY'DN’T’VE’D
We all start out as swimmers. Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey why hey hey look: There are so many drinks in our future that my memory of what has not happened yet is already erased. Swimming in them, in the drink. Glug. Gluglug.
Swim when the sky is gray and snoring. Drink when she wants to be missed even though she is not gone. Her face is a puddle filled with rain drops and I am always happy to still be able to be astonished like when I made a vegetarian watch me eat a liverwurst...
THEY’DN’T’VE’D
We all start out as...
THEY’DN’T’VE’D
We all start out as swimmers. Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey why hey hey look: There are so many drinks in our future that my memory of what has not happened yet is already erased. Swimming in them, in the drink. Glug. Gluglug.
Swim when the sky is gray and snoring. Drink when she wants to be missed even though she is not gone. Her face is a puddle filled with rain drops and I am always happy to still be able to be astonished like when I made a vegetarian watch me eat a liverwurst s...
