A visit from an NYC friend yesterday reminded me how much I prefer the Chicago ‘L’–and Chicago, in general–over New York and its (apparently) increasingly dangerous subway. Click above to view my premiere video blog and I’ll tell you my reasons why.
(Video: On the NYC subway, sitting in pee is the least of your worries….)
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I enjoyed the post! I think I generally agree with your comparative judgements about the L vs. the NY subway.
You might be interested in a recent post I wrote at my blog titled “against those who complain about public transit in Chicago”
http://pink-scare.blogspot.com/2009/06/against-those-who-complain-about-public.html
I mostly love riding on the CTA!
It’s only when people use the platforms and CTA elevators as urinals that I’m not so convinced.
Every day, someone pisses in the Red Line elevator. Every. Single. Day.
*eyeroll*
LOL! What the difference between New Yorkers & Chicagoans? Next videoblog?
Go Chi-City!! Moving up in the world.
Must’ve been another Tony living in NYC, and sounds a bit like an urban legend. Gotham is still the just about the safest big town in Amurka 🙂
So are the video blogs going to become a regular thing like your weekly podcast?
I have the Flip also! Mine’s the older version however (the Flip Ultra I believe). I recently lost it which is a tad troublesome because I have 2 pretty embarassing videos of me sobbing on it the night I turned 30.
Thanks, neighbor!
For the record for anyone interested, I’m using a nifty, teeny Flip Mino camcorder (the sub-$200, non-HD model). I could upload the video from the associated FlipShare software from my Mac directly to YouTube, but the quality penalty is too high.
Instead, I’m compressing the native AVI files with (the now-defunct but still-working) iSquint and uploading manually to (the no self-serving ads allowed) Vimeo, which takes a bit longer but preserves an amazing amount of quality and detail.
What a cool idea to home decor. And “carrying my debit card in my Keds’…priceless.
(now I fully understand your facebook post about the better lighting)