#queens new York

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The world is yours!

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NASIR.

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50 Cent “Power Of The Dollar “ Era

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(via The Birthplace of Scrabble – Queens, New York - Atlas Obscura)

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Dylan Robert Jones ; Document direction

1. Name / location -Dylan Robert Jones / Queens NY

2. What inspires you - I’m going to answer this with a story. A few years ago, I had zero interest in making visual art. I hadn’t made anything since high school and I certainly didn’t see myself as a visual artist, but one day I did this exercise where you write a letter from your inner child to your current self. You use your non-dominant hand so as to more easily tap into your repressed feelings. The writing was an extremely cathartic experience, but what was more interesting was that immediately after I had finished the writing, I created a doodle with my left hand of this distressed robot character and colored it in (see first image). It was evident that that drawing was a reflection of my world at that current moment. I then had the revelation that I didn’t have to try to convey anything with my work, that anything I made would be a symbolic expression of my emotional landscape and would be good in and of itself because of this. So what inspires me really is this nonverbal process of excavating and releasing hidden emotions through art.

3. Favorite song right now -I love u in me by Prince I Love U in Me

4. Medium of choice -Pens and colored pencils

5. Goal with art -My goal is to eventually be able to make enough money through art and music that I don’t have to work full time at a draining job anymore.

6. Who does it right - Bonobos, Norwegians, transition skaters, country singers, old cars, penguins, dancers, lucid dreams, old people, ghouls, state parks, graffiti artists, herbal teas, free online movies, pens, my singing teacher, farmers, friends, sand tray therapists, trees, Neanderthals, William Wonka, the beach boys, glass, blue collar workers, sobriety, turtles, seashells, oats.

7. Is social media evil - No, but it can land anywhere on the spectrum between evil and good depending on the particular situation. Usually it’s pretty shitty but without it my life would have taken a totally different course. For instance, I met my fiance through social media 12 years ago when we were teenagers, so I’m grateful for it.

8. Opinion on time - It’s scary as fuck, but one thing that comforts me is thinking about how all our differences will inevitably be swallowed by the ocean of time. What I mean by this is that in several hundred years time me and the person I hate will be seen as virtually one and the same.

9. Favorite blog - All the blogs that just post photos of Lana Del Rey. Those are chill.

10. Thanks / shout outs -

Thanks Jacob for interviewing me!

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Taken near my favorite borger spot 🍔

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Doing some reading in Queens…

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Horatio Caine Hedacanons (AU-mix) [Part 1]

Horatio Hates driving, being from NY he always hated it and dreads it every time. He got his license at 30 when he moved down to FL.

Grew up with a half black, half Dominican best friend named Carla (OC), Carla Dominguez. she lived in Spanish Harlem. He met at 4 years old at school and been inseparable ever since. She lives in Harlem and Her family owned a Jazz club her grandfather started in the 20s.

Her family to him was like a second family.

He also learned Spanish through her, but couldn't speak it. He could understand it though. He couldn't roll his ‘r’ or some reason. He finally learned when his best friend got him a book and tape set for Spanish when he was moving to Miami . Being surrounded by a lot of Spanish speakers turned him into a pro in a few short years.

Horatio loves music. His favorite genre is Latin music but he loves all of it. No matter what genre, if it’s good he’s listening to it. His best friend Carla (OC) excised h to the genre.

He would spend time with her and his friends playing, jumping rope or sometime hanging out in front of her parents club dancing and learning how to dance.

His son Kyle was surprised at his father’s taste in music. He has great taste and even some genres like Hip Hop, Pop, Latin Music that was really good and popular music. he didn't think someone his age would even like music form his generation.

Horatio doesn’t have causal sex. There is only. A hand full of women he was ever inmate with and those have all been serious committed relationships. He always knew his body and emotions were connected and the intamcy of sex. Which caused some women he was set up on dates to not see him anymore because he would only have sex when he’s good and ready and comfortable. even that mean hiding hands and kissing as well. part f had to due with his abusive childhood as well.

He didn’t lose his virginity until 22 years old with his first girlfriend. Rebecca Rhodes who was a social worker who has a similar past in childhood abuse like him.

Carla family need up adopting him and his brother after that tragic night of his parents dying.

Horatio has never had a one night stand. He always was very connected to is emotions and very aware of how sex is very intimate emotionally and physically. So it never appeared to him to have sex with strangers. having sex with people you don't know or even like, never appealed to him

His first girlfriend he got after college at the age of 22 and they moved in 6 months after dating eachother. They dated for 5 years that turned out to be the most chaotic 5 years of his life. she was beautiful blonde social worker and they bonded over their abusive past and childhood.They trauma bonded with each other and unfortunately. Horatio was on the receiving end of a lot of things flying towards his face and indulged in long passionate fights.

he finally lost his freckles at 20 years old. He hated them growing up because they always made him look young and was relived when they finally left his face.

His father didn't allow him to go to his friend Carol Birthday party at 15 for some reason. He always went , and never had there been a problem before but some reason he couldn't go to her Quincera..

October, 5 1975 On a cool night his parents were fighting again but this time it was bad and more volatile than anything before. Horatio had enough and was steaming the whole night , until his father was beating his mom and throwing her about the room and hoartio was watching the whole thing go down and was stewing an das his mom head the corner of the counter , Hoartio just saw red and attacked his dad. even though his after was 6'7 and a wide tree but the time everything calmed down and police were outside the door they found Horatio, His mother, Father all on the ground bruised cut and bleeding. His mother died from in the initial fall from hitting the counter. His father had deep knife cuts in the back and arms and side and Horatio had bruises and cuts on his body too.

Horatio and his brother were sent to an orphanage because they had no next of kin but his best forms family taught tooth and nail for a year to get custody of them.

Horatio had so many emotions bubbled he up he cried him self to sleep all night for two weeks straight. He also plagued with nightmares about the fight and what happened.

a few months later he was charged with murder but The judge at the time pushed the trail back until he finished school.

Horatio felt so bad and guilty about what happened and thus The whole ordeal inspired him to become a police officer. To help people and do something meaningful with his life.

His brother however was determined to leave New York for good. he worked really hard ins school and applied to Miami University which he got in and majored in criminal justice to become a police officer.

he moved from Queens and moved to the bronx to be as far away from his home as possible by the elevated train and wasn't bothered by it one bit because

He had his first girlfriend ever at at 22 and was the first woman he slept with too. her name was Samantha Hawkins . she was a beautiful blond woman 5’7 with blonde hair and blue eyes, in a bob. They both came firm abusive homes and she was a child social worker in the city. they dated for 5 years but after a while problems became to rise up and both being so emotional they both fought na da rugged, she often threw thing at his head, he never raised a hand towards her at all but he def matched her in an argument.she accused him alot and mis communication and hurt feelings where there didnt need to be any and just alot if tears and crying and yelling and making up but they realized they didn't know what they were doing and weren't right for eachother.

His Best friend Carl got married and he became godfather to all of her kids.

after some therapy Hoartio realized his faults in the relationship and felt so bad , he contacted her and apologized They met years after Horatio moved to Miami, after she was married and had grown children with one grandchild on the way, and gave a Huge bouquet of flowers and took her out o lunch and profusely apologized.

because if this he didn't date for almost a decade. He was so traumatized by his last relationship he didn’t eve bother

But years later, 2 years before he met Julia when he was ready his friend did set him up on blind date.

His life as an police officer was an amazing experience and rough but loved his team mates he worked with. he hate how big his uniform look on him because he was so naturally skinny, but he made alot of lasting friendships as an officer. his favorite time of year was the Parades. Puetorican/Dominican Day. he would get put on crowd control and he would be vigilant but he would enjoy his day as well. he'd be dancing, singing and eating food chatting with people in the street.

All of that changed with the last 5 years with a change in directors of the force and he often bucked heads with for years.

One assignment he has to find a killer Walter Resden he was undercover in Florida and there met Julia. (Actual canon) He knew she was the one from their frist time they met. They ate for two weeks and its as the most intense two weeks ever. He wasn’t scared or guarded like he usually was in relationships, it was amazing. He believed everything she told him and meant everything she told him. But mysteriously weeks during their affair she up and disappeared. He never heard or seen her again. He never felt more heartbroken and confused.

After his failed mission with Walter Reseden, he was Philly and emotionally exhausted and after a heated exchanged with his new chief he got a “transfer” ( aka firing ) . He didn’t fight it, He needed a change of scenery not that he wanted it, but it proved to benefit him later on in life.

After 4 months recovering from his arm injury mostly but still in a sling.

He hated everything about Miami, it wasn’t ugly just unfamiliar and an unwanted move. He was emotionally a mess than he’d ever had been before.he was distant and moody He hardly made friends and had a slight chip on his shoulder.

He was happy he could see his brother and family again but he didn’t feel home in Miami and didn’t think he eve would.

His new Boss Al Humphries noticed this and offers support but somewhat forced Horatio to seek therapy,or else he’d fire him. Horatio relented but it was prob one of the what best things to happen to him. He was able to understand so much of his emotional bag he and trauma from his past and childhood. He never finished it thought, he’d only finish about 60% of the work done needed.

His job on the bomb squad also proved to be helpful Ina sense of you have to be calm and clear about what your doing. A lot less excitable than a detective but he didn’t mind. He need some calm at this point in his life.

Over the years Miami proved to have a lot of healings facts for Horatio. He used to swear a lot back in MY but now he doesn’t anymore. His friends joke the sand and surf just be mellowing him out.

He still had his moments of feeling vulnerable and guarded over himself but it’s less now. One unfortunate event one year as Lt, he was off duty with in his car after trying groceries looking at his phone , so wrapped up what e was doing he and not paying attention to a woman yelling at him from afar about something he doesn’t even remember now but and then she had the gal to come over and open his door , get in his personals space and yell at him , he never felt his rage boil up so fast and had he been a lesser man or even the man his father he would have punched her dead in the face but he didn’t he just cussed her out and closed his door and drove off.

He learned how to handle suprises better, due to abusive childhood, being suprises isn’t always a pleasant experience. One time for his birthday his friends from NY, and the NY crime lab , his brother and his family, all came down to surprise him and he stepped through the door pulled his him out on all of them but thank goodness he process quickly and quickly hid his weapon. Only Mac,Marisol and Ryan knew what happened , everyone else had no clue because it happened so quick and he turned around embarrassed but quickly laughing it off.

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Queen New York, Summer 2018

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Queens New York Nicknames

One of my old Army buddies from Queens NY is always using these neighborhood nicknames for the "guys". Tommy "3 toes" Robustelli, Davide "All thumbs" Bonaccorso, Enzo "The Russian" Eoppolo, I always ask why they have the nickname and it is always some dumb crap they did as a kid or some inside joke they all have because of some physical feature or injury. Today, he calls me with a story from a pub in Queens, as he often does. He always starts the same way, "Hey Richie, I'm sitting here at Maloney's (He always tell me the bars names like it's going to mean something to me in Nevada.) and you'll never guess who walked in, Oisin ((Uh-Sheen) "Six fingers" O’Mahony, like I know who the hell that is. Séan will go into a 5 minuet bought of pleasantries and catching up before getting back to me. At this point I will always ask how did so and so get his nickname, and I'll always guess. Tonight, I guessed that like the six fingered man, he had six fingers. As I said, so very often these "nicknames" have a connection to some physical trait or injury, not tonight. Oisin "Six Fingers" O'Mahony formerly known as Oisin "Six Fingers, Neat" O'Mahony always orders a single glass of Redbreast, 6 fingers deep. The "Neat" was dropped when he started getting it with one cube of ice. Out here we just call people Bubba or Cletus. The other side of these conversations is he'll tell me generations of Queen's history and I have learned so much street level history of Queens. Quite fascinating stuff from who lives on this block or that, when this building was made, it's all cool to me. I'll often be following along doing internet searches and reading more in-depth stuff. Being a history nerd it's cool getting it from a guy who traces his families roots in New York to 1699.

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“Can you believe we still have pictures from the Museum of the Moving Image, Pixie?”

I can, there was a lot to see there, like that theater entrance behind you guys. Inside they were showing little mini documentaries about Jim Henson’s work, the one we popped in for was talking about Labyrinth. The little theatre is pretty well themed inside too, but then again, I’ve always been a sucker for anything Ancient Egypt.

Speaking of Jim Henson, I did manage to find one photo from the exhibition that I took with Zak.

“Oh yeah! I do remember that!”

There was also the giant Freddy Krueger sweater used in Nightmare on Elm Street 4. (Ironically, when we went to see a monster movie marathon at a drive-in theater during this trip, we saw the original Nightmare on Elm Street.)

“That was cool too! It’s so huge!”

It had to be to let actors crawl out of it for the shot they needed. A video popped up on my TikTok feed shortly after we returned home showing the giant Freddy they built for that particular shot wearing that sweater.

They didn’t just have movie props either, they had old cameras and television sets.

And then there was the unexpected highlight of our visit: this note at the gift shop.

My sister and I couldn’t stop laughing when we saw it, we loved it so much.

“Why were you laughing? He was watching! He was upstairs in the exhibit, remember?”

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SHOP: gettothecorner.com

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Finally made it to Tangram Mall in Flushing. Of course I went to the angry bird store.

It's awesome, but a little small. I'm probably going to explore more of flushing before I head out.

I have gone to Flushing several times, but I usually hang around Main Street.