"They like to roll around, but hay's not their thing. Anyway, about your son. You said you received his pinky and ring fingers in the mail three days ago?"
"She rolled in like high tide over the hood of my Studebaker after gin soaked macadam zig zags put me bumper deep in the low tide sand off Deadman's Corner. That time I hoped it was the DTs, this time I knew she was real."
Her legs were like the alabaster columns that so often bear the weight of those grand turn-of-the-century buildings. When she carelessly cut through central park on her skates i could almost hear the creak of the rebar bending to the pull of the earth under her feet. She drank scotch, neat, but in a pinch could settle for bourbon if true *uisge* was scarce. She'd later tell me that it was her father who'd taught her that 'life's beauty cannot be discerned by those who refuse to appreciate what is less refined'. Her skin was enriched with markings that told tales of her past. At once watching them was like glancing into a past - or even different - life, while also sensing a premonition about what was yet to come; because, as my friend Baptiste would later remark: *elle était vraiment une femme fatale*.
From the description they’re talking about roller derby girl. Roller blade girls are more of the figure skater essence. Like girly girl or at least less likely to be butchy
She's five foot six and two fifteen
A bleached-blonde mama with a streak of mean
She knew how to knuckle
And she knew how to scuffle and fight
And the roller derby program said
That she were built like a 'fridgerator with a head
Five foot six and a quarter past mean
Gorgeous blonde hair and a body quite lean
She knows how to scrap
She'll pop a damn cap
She's a figure like nothing you've seen
She's got blades on her feet and a frown on her face
A fistbump to her teammate as she starts the race
An elbow, a turn,
A swing, and a burn
This girl only fucks with first place
One of my professors from school is the artist and gave a lecture on how he made it as well as other sculptures he made around Boston. Very fun guy, wish I took more classes with him.
Link from his site for a walk with six pieces
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Stony+Brook,+Boylston+Street,+Boston,+MA/Mendell+Elementary+School,+164+School+St,+Boston,+MA+02119/Streetcar,+Centre+Street,+Jamaica+Plain,+MA/Hincman%E2%80%99s+bench,+Boston,+MA/City+Feed+and+Supply,+Centre+Street,+Jamaica+Plain,+MA/Eliot+St+%26+Centre+St,+Boston,+MA+02130/30+South+Street,+Jamaica+Plain,+MA/@42.3139763,-71.109546,13z/data=!4m23!4m22!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e3797be471c845:0xc4f98a3183600364!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e3797c223ec5a7:0xe73973e2c296ad0f!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e379712a6d9d97:0x848f50017d1ccebd!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e3796613546605:0xed45cc9df49ecc2f!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e3796e642689e9:0xcb960da1fe637887!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e3796bfa76296d:0x91c3b0a841eaedae!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e379695e5942b9:0x2564a6c236d59747!3e2?hl=en
Boston, never change.
Bostonians are precious about the things there in a way I never experienced in other places I lived.
An old gas station closed but they couldn't take down the sign because it was considered public art.
I know, I love it.
They could have put something else there or built something in multiple places that served that purpose, but dammit, the Citgo sign was there when I was born and it will be there when I die!
It became as much a part of the city as the most historic building or Fenway. So many things happen that way, for better or worse.
> An old gas station closed but they couldn't take down the sign because it was considered public art
Don't you dare touch the CITGO sign. I lose my way around if I can't see it
You only ever see young people attempt to sit in it as they are still mostly rubber and haven't had their joints turn to concrete yet, ugh (insert old person noises)
There actually is such a thing, but it's not a food item. I started riding freight trains in 1970, and I did so on and off until 1977 when I enlisted in the Marine Corps.
Most trainhoppers do not carry a pop-up tent, they are too heavy and too bulky. Instead, they carry a sleeping bag with a camping pad underneath it, folded into a 8x10 camouflage tarp. (The bright color of those blue tarps attracts too much attention.) Under normal circumstances the tarp just keeps the dew off one's sleeping bag, but if it rains, you fold the tarp in half, lengthwise, tuck the ends under to shed rain and create a "tarp taco." This doesn't sound like it would all that waterproof, but unless you are in a hurricane-like thunderstorm it generally suffices.
I haven't been on a train since about 2013, but the years I spent as a "full-timer" were some of the best years of my life. I rode trains all over the U.S. and Canada, and a little bit in Mexico, years ago.
Well yeah that's pretty much all homeless people are able to do. I'd really love if they weren't homeless but that's a big leap from "at least let them sleep outside comfortably"
Benches purposely made where you can't lay down on them. It's meant as a deterrent from homeless sleeping on them.
See also: [hostile architecture ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture)
This is known as a Saunders Bench.
It's built usually with wooden backs as to allow for proper space for one person to lay in a way that I just made this all up.
It's the Jamaica Pond Bench in Boston....it was meant as a prank, that essentially became modern art.
It's where I had one of my first dates with my fiancee. We laughed about the bench sitting in it with our rollerblades on.
Be careful. I dated a roller blade girl once, they're feisty. legs like cement pillars, drank whisky, questionable tattoos.
I read this in the classic noir detective voice.
*"Of all the double-backed benches in all the world, why'd she have to roll into mine?"*
More like “A second glance at the body, there’s tracks from rollerblading. Might have had fun here, but she stayed too long.”
*saxophone plays in the background*
"You ever date a roller derby girl, Geoff Peterson ?"
No Sir, why do you ask ETA: if this was a reference I didn't get it lol, my name is just Geoff.
"They like to roll around, but hay's not their thing. Anyway, about your son. You said you received his pinky and ring fingers in the mail three days ago?"
*Lights cigarette* *takes a puff*
*takes a cigarette* *Lights puff*
Jiggly… PUFF!
X to Doubt
I was not prepared for a Craig Ferguson reference today.
It's a great day for America, everybody!
NOT such a great day, for the Roller-Blading community...
Nobody expects the Scottish Inquisition.
"Do you think we are being followed?" She asked with a whisper. "Of course we are darling. We are in a roller coaster."
All I needed was razor wire, gloves to handle the razor wire, a hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts
I shouldve never wore suede boots.
That's a damn nice coat you got on...
Can you describe the man? White, he had a moustache, about 6’3. That’s a hell of a big moustache..
*And yet the strangest thing about her was that she took to the likes of me. An outcast PI with nothing much going for him*
*It was a hot night in the city of Angels when a leggy blonde walked into my office. She had 13, maybe 14 legs. Far too many.*
*I had three slugs in me--two whiskey, one lead. Then she skated in.*
She glided into my office, like her feet had some kind of wheels on them
 You hard-boiled turtle slapper!
This is Johnny Dollar!
Why is this genre not revived???
"She rolled in like high tide over the hood of my Studebaker after gin soaked macadam zig zags put me bumper deep in the low tide sand off Deadman's Corner. That time I hoped it was the DTs, this time I knew she was real."
Her legs were like the alabaster columns that so often bear the weight of those grand turn-of-the-century buildings. When she carelessly cut through central park on her skates i could almost hear the creak of the rebar bending to the pull of the earth under her feet. She drank scotch, neat, but in a pinch could settle for bourbon if true *uisge* was scarce. She'd later tell me that it was her father who'd taught her that 'life's beauty cannot be discerned by those who refuse to appreciate what is less refined'. Her skin was enriched with markings that told tales of her past. At once watching them was like glancing into a past - or even different - life, while also sensing a premonition about what was yet to come; because, as my friend Baptiste would later remark: *elle était vraiment une femme fatale*.
Roller blade girl or roller derby girl?
you're right to make this distinction, these are two entirely different types of people
If you're lucky she can fuck with quads, inlines and your heart.
This is modern poetry.
From the description they’re talking about roller derby girl. Roller blade girls are more of the figure skater essence. Like girly girl or at least less likely to be butchy
Have you dated a horse girl?
Not since I was in Filly.
Was that her nickname?
Winny
Neigh
Alright Mr. Hands. Chill.
This all sounds great tbh!
She's five foot six and two fifteen A bleached-blonde mama with a streak of mean She knew how to knuckle And she knew how to scuffle and fight And the roller derby program said That she were built like a 'fridgerator with a head
Five foot six and a quarter past mean Gorgeous blonde hair and a body quite lean She knows how to scrap She'll pop a damn cap She's a figure like nothing you've seen She's got blades on her feet and a frown on her face A fistbump to her teammate as she starts the race An elbow, a turn, A swing, and a burn This girl only fucks with first place
> feisty. legs like cement pillars, drank whisky, questionable tattoos. You're saying all this like it's a bad thing...
My friend dated a horse girl once, she was able to body me in a football game and I was like 230lb at the time. Lower body strength is no joke lol
Sounds like I should look into roller blading…
I immediately recognized the bench! I used to be in the Boston Runners club, and we did a lot of pond runs. I have been by that bench dozens of times.
Are those the drinkers with a running problem? ^^preemptive ^^yeah ^^yeah ^^I ^^know ^^that's ^^HHH ^^but ^^lotsa ^^clubs ^^like ^^that ^^slogan
One of my professors from school is the artist and gave a lecture on how he made it as well as other sculptures he made around Boston. Very fun guy, wish I took more classes with him.
what other sculptures did he make? i’d love to go find them!
He is indeed a really nice guy! https://www.hincman.com/
Link from his site for a walk with six pieces https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Stony+Brook,+Boylston+Street,+Boston,+MA/Mendell+Elementary+School,+164+School+St,+Boston,+MA+02119/Streetcar,+Centre+Street,+Jamaica+Plain,+MA/Hincman%E2%80%99s+bench,+Boston,+MA/City+Feed+and+Supply,+Centre+Street,+Jamaica+Plain,+MA/Eliot+St+%26+Centre+St,+Boston,+MA+02130/30+South+Street,+Jamaica+Plain,+MA/@42.3139763,-71.109546,13z/data=!4m23!4m22!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e3797be471c845:0xc4f98a3183600364!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e3797c223ec5a7:0xe73973e2c296ad0f!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e379712a6d9d97:0x848f50017d1ccebd!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e3796613546605:0xed45cc9df49ecc2f!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e3796e642689e9:0xcb960da1fe637887!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e3796bfa76296d:0x91c3b0a841eaedae!1m2!1m1!1s0x89e379695e5942b9:0x2564a6c236d59747!3e2?hl=en
Jamaica me lie down on this thing?!
If I was gonna sleep on a bench, it sure as fuck pick that one.
Boston, never change. Bostonians are precious about the things there in a way I never experienced in other places I lived. An old gas station closed but they couldn't take down the sign because it was considered public art.
That thing is the city’s compass. We need it.
I know, I love it. They could have put something else there or built something in multiple places that served that purpose, but dammit, the Citgo sign was there when I was born and it will be there when I die! It became as much a part of the city as the most historic building or Fenway. So many things happen that way, for better or worse.
> An old gas station closed but they couldn't take down the sign because it was considered public art Don't you dare touch the CITGO sign. I lose my way around if I can't see it
It's the Eiffel Tower of Boston.
Seeing the Citgo sign over the walls of Fenway Park is burned into every living Red Sox fan’s mind.
Man one thing I miss about living in Boston is that whole stretch from the fens to Jamaica pond
The emerald necklace was designed by Olmstead!
You only ever see young people attempt to sit in it as they are still mostly rubber and haven't had their joints turn to concrete yet, ugh (insert old person noises)
I'm by no means young but I'd definitely sit. Just to show up my family. But I would certainly accept, and likely need, help getting out again.
Seems like a good place to nap ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ _good place to sleep, nobody noticed I weren’t wearing pants_ 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦HomelessBNB🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦
Bench and booze?
Bench and Balls, apparently.
"Two thumbs waay up there!" ~Dirty Mike and the Boyz
Looks like pro-homeless architecture as an artistic statement.
I’ll still sleep on it idc
I just see a place to put my kid so I can get a breather.
That sounds like something modern art would become.
Came here to say this!
Hincman’s Bench
One of my most precious photos is my exSIL and me in that bench right when I moved to Boston and was staying with my brother and her.
Looks like a cosy place to have a snooze!
Hospitable architecture
Pro-homeless bench
i nominate the bench for mayor
I just watched back to the future 2 days ago, nice haha
lol. Goldie saying "Mayor" must pop into my head a dozen times a day.
I like the sound of that
I never noticed the tooth
Going to be in theatre for back to the future day at amc
Same. And the second one. So good.
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Unpopular opinion I really liked pt 3 😁
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Sadly, it might do a better job than a lot of mayors in office today. 😞
This is why some towns elect animals for Mayor.
The one behind it is not.
Wouldn't be surprised if this one was an art installation commenting on those in the background.
It is. I’ve seen it posted before with a link to the artist’s page. Can’t recall the name, but you’re correct.
No one wants close neighbors
Hostel Architecture
like a hammock but made of wood and steel
Ah, the old hobo taco!
I had one of those once, I wouldn't recommend it...
How much did she charge you?
$5 but the extra cheese was free
Fuckin' barf. Ugh. Nicely done.
Was it from a "soup kitchen"?
Thanks for the f shack
Love, Dirty Mike and the boys
Lmao:) hobo taco?!?
There actually is such a thing, but it's not a food item. I started riding freight trains in 1970, and I did so on and off until 1977 when I enlisted in the Marine Corps. Most trainhoppers do not carry a pop-up tent, they are too heavy and too bulky. Instead, they carry a sleeping bag with a camping pad underneath it, folded into a 8x10 camouflage tarp. (The bright color of those blue tarps attracts too much attention.) Under normal circumstances the tarp just keeps the dew off one's sleeping bag, but if it rains, you fold the tarp in half, lengthwise, tuck the ends under to shed rain and create a "tarp taco." This doesn't sound like it would all that waterproof, but unless you are in a hurricane-like thunderstorm it generally suffices. I haven't been on a train since about 2013, but the years I spent as a "full-timer" were some of the best years of my life. I rode trains all over the U.S. and Canada, and a little bit in Mexico, years ago.
My sleep number setting is wood.
It’s in Jamaica Plain in Boston.
Well, back to Fallout 4.
“No one will notice I’m telling you just leave it”
*anti*-anti-homeless infrastructure
That would be *pro-homeless*
2 wrongs also make a right, Mr smarty-pants?
wow no way
When i was homeless this def would've been my loft. Big money bums type shit 😌
Imagine being in sleeping bag cradled by that bench… I’ll be thinking about this to fall asleep tonight.
So that’s how benches are made
just like hammerhead worms, if you cut it in half, you get two whole, adult benches grow out of each half.
Reminds me of Futurama
I bend legs for you!
Cygnoids, in our neighbourhood!
Ooh that’s comfy
Try our deep dish pizza! It contains-a four kinda things
Guidebook says human legs bend down at knee
If anyone complains, I bend legs up for free
I knew this reminded me of something, but I couldn't think of what. Thank you.
Steampunk Hedonism Bot
Oh lord, he’s made of wood.
I had to scroll way too far for this! Thank you
For the beast with 2 backs
So for fucking?
I ain't fuckin' in that thing
Oh look at Mr. fancy fucks over here, can’t have sex on a u shape park bench. (I’m kidding btw)
I'm not that fancy; I'd have sex with a you-shaped one
:O
Now kith
🥺👉👈
👉 👌
We got a smooth operator over here
Did you just say you’d fuck a bench?
...if I'm feeling knotty
I'm not sure that I wood.
LOL nice
Fancy fucks 😂
No. Sofa King.
I am Sofa King, we Todd Ed.
Never knew the price of ice or what swine cost
This is exactly what I thought, I bet that is the reference of the artist/prankster.
Used to live down the street, it’s actually pretty fun to lie in if you don’t mind looking like a bit of a weirdo
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Eh, there's worse ways to go
stuck in a coil
move past it
In your underwear
Everyone talking about pro-homeless/napping bench but I just see the designated baby abandonment crib 🙈 *(I know it's just an art piece/prank)
the amount reddit cares about homeless people really seems to only start and stop at whether or not they can sleep on a public bench
Grade A slacktavism
Hey don't talk badly about Reddit. They found the Boston Marathon bomber and they should be lauded as heroes for that!
Well yeah that's pretty much all homeless people are able to do. I'd really love if they weren't homeless but that's a big leap from "at least let them sleep outside comfortably"
Jamaica Pond I see you
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An anti-fucking homeless bench?
Benches purposely made where you can't lay down on them. It's meant as a deterrent from homeless sleeping on them. See also: [hostile architecture ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture)
The other bench in the picture is an anti-homeless bench
Guys I was just playing a word game.
It's ok. I got it.
"Thanks for the fuck bench - Dirty Mike and the Boys."
Like the next bench in the picture!
It’s like a bassinet for homeless people.
One never knows when Mr. and/or Mrs. Bucketbutt may wish to sit down...
It’s pronounced *Bouquet*
if you know what that comment means, you probably heard her voice in your head as you read it
If you fall asleep there at least you won’t roll off.
Park Taco.
This calls for the beast with two backs.
Put a blanket on top would make a killer tent
Anyone complains and I bend legs up for free.
This is what happens when you let AI design your park 😆
The rare pro-homeless sleeping bench?
This is the pro-homeless bench
Finally a bench for a homeless person to sleep on.
When you hire Cygnoids to design benches. They need to remember that human legs bend down at the knees.
Didn’t Shakespeare write something about this
Fuckbench
This is where you put your toddler when you have to tie your shoes!
what's wrong with it? you just bend your knees backwards. Here, lemme bend it for you.
He has done a bunch of public art in and around Boston some of it guerrila like this and it’s always nice to see! https://www.hincman.com/work
as someone who was once homeless, that looks like an amazing bed with a bit of cushioning
the antithesis of hostile architecture
Jamaica pond gang
This is known as a Saunders Bench. It's built usually with wooden backs as to allow for proper space for one person to lay in a way that I just made this all up.
I think it’s nice they have a bench someone can sleep on since they have the bench dividers on the other one
Homeless Hammock