My new favorite Post.com video
Hank Stuever had a wonderful sentence in the morning's Post as he reviewed the new WETA Washington in the '70s documentary: "I could watch an entire hour about the 'cut and cover' digs that carved out the gloriously new Metro system through downtown."
Me too. I watched the hour-long film late last night, enjoyed it, wanted so much more from it, and thrilled to the dig shot even thought I knew it was coming. I love the building of Metro. I once realized things would end with a great girl when she declared the construction boring. Either you marvel in journeys closer to the center of the Earth or you don't.
So, I may be in the cut and cover afterglow, but, crossing the Facebook feed recently, this video from friend Whitney about a day on the Metro is my new favorite Post.com video. Not sure on the old one. I saw the article it accompanied days ago, and the words didn't do much for me. The video did — mysterious, exposed, engaged, crushed, and emptied.
February 24th, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Much as I love Metro, I never ride the subway without thinking of that scene in "Volcano." (Cue man sinking into lava. Ohh, I just got the chills.) On a brighter note, you might enjoy this: http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/45384.html
And unrelated, that page links to http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/42448.html, which is awesome on every possible level.
February 25th, 2010 at 9:27 AM
So cool, thanks, had never heard of the early New York one before, but it explains some stuff I ran across a few weeks ago.
Riding the Capitol subway as a little kid may have started my love affair here. It was more open then, no clearance required, but there were definitely no signs leading to it. I remember my mom having to ask a few different security guards for directions as we wound our way lower in the buildings.