Here's a funny go-round from my Facebook a few weeks back:

Tommy Kirchmeier: My elderly father called me “middle-aged” on Friday. I took offense as "middle-aged" is what I call people who purchase sensible automobiles.

On Saturday, Jessica and I bought a Honda Civic.
March 9 at 11:23am · · Like ·


Leah L: pretty soon, you'll start wanting a lawn too.
March 9 at 11:25am · Like


Karen C: This is funny on so many levels!
March 9 at 11:30am · Like


Tommy Kirchmeier: We got the car so that we could get out of the city in order to buy a place with a lawn. Did not see this coming before I met Jess.
March 9 at 11:41am · Like · 2 people


Leah L: HAH!
March 9 at 11:42am · Like


Diana G. S: Big-City-Joe and I are now living in (very) rural Bucks County, PA. We own a tractor. Isn't marriage something?
March 9 at 11:43am · Like


Karen C: suburban domestic bliss..it's what's up!
March 9 at 11:44am · Like


Leah L: lawnmower, leaf blower, snow blower....yep...get that home depot credit card now...
March 9 at 11:49am · Like


Tommy Kirchmeier: What else is weird is that I’m wearing a tie at work today, which is what the kids do now, but used to be what the middle-aged did.


Things are getting more and more surreal.
March 9 at 12:05pm · Like


Leah L: is it a skinny tie? you may be able to skate by on that. if it's a bow tie, there's no hope.
March 9 at 12:07pm · Like


Barbara S: I'm not sure buying one of the most stolen cars in NY counts as "sensible" hence nothing to worry about.
March 9 at 1:03pm · Like


Lauren C: well i did tell Jessica this on Friday ... "you know honda civics are one the most stolen cars in the city" so she was warned.
But hey your moving to the safety of the suburbs... Nothing happens out there anyways ... So I'm sure you'll be...
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March 9 at 1:30pm · Like


Karen C: That's the older civics, pre-standard issue alarm system... My Civ has never been swiped!
March 9 at 2:16pm · Like


Tommy Kirchmeier: See, not sensible to own in the city = not middle aged... until Karen ruined it.
March 9 at 2:40pm · Like


Karen C: hee hee....
March 9 at 2:56pm · Like


Danielle C: It's not like you bought a Buick, for pete's sake....
March 9 at 4:54pm · Like


Tommy Kirchmeier: I never actually bought a Buick. That car belonged to my dad when he was middle-aged and I took it over in high school/college.
March 9 at 4:59pm · Like


Danielle C: Next thing you know, you'll be moving to Chester, or something.... LOL
March 9 at 5:08pm · Like


Tommy Kirchmeier: We're moving upstate to West-Chester.
March 9 at 5:10pm · Like


Christine G: OMG Tommy has a car?!?!? I smell 2.5 children in your future and a potential picket fence...
March 9 at 6:11pm · Like


Delma-Jean W: Welcome to the club. We own two toyota corollas.
March 9 at 7:48pm · Like


Elderly Father: Who you calling elderly!
March 9 at 8:42pm · Like


Tommy Kirchmeier: What, Dad? I called you middle-aged when you owned the 89 Buick... 22 years ago.
March 10 at 9:38am · Like


Rachel O: Face it Tommy ! We all are middle -aged now ...LOL How's the car ?
March 12 at 8:44am · Like

Wow. Another war. It's just a farce at this point. I'm not speaking as an anti-war dove or a fiscal conservative, just someone who lives in the real world: We can't afford this!

Belvedere Castle in Snow, Central Park

Belvedere Castle in Snow, Central Park, 07
Originally uploaded by TommyKirchmeier

Spent last Wednesday, Snowpocalypse 2: The Revenge that Never Occurred, playing hookie in Central Park. I got some great shots of Belvedere Castle, among other things. It seems many other New Yorkers were playing hookie as well.

Shea Stadium: 1964 - 2008

Shea Stadium: 1964 - 2008
Originally uploaded by TommyKirchmeier

I finally finished my portfolio of best photos from Shea Stadium: A Requiem. This was the longest photo project I've ever completed. I plan to follow it up with a self-published book of photos, soon. It's funny to miss such an eyesore but looking over these photos, it feels muchh more like home than CitiField. See the portfolio at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tommykirchmeier/sets/72157623179958567/show/

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IMGP4082edited
Originally uploaded by TommyKirchmeier

It's effing cold out there. Even for me.

I want to generate some traffic to my blog so: Tiger Woods, Avatar, Michael Jackson, H1N1, Swine Flu, Brittany Murphy, Jersey Shore, Yankees, Senate, 60 votes, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Wall Street bonuses, Joe Lieberman, Jesus.

Creepy Subway Riders (updated)

Creepy Subway Riders (updated)
Originally uploaded by TommyKirchmeier

This is the third time I’ve seen these women on the 1 train. I noticed them about three months ago, dressed almost identically in dirty, old-fashioned skirts and sweaters. They were lying against each other, just as they are here. About a month later, I saw them sitting in either the 18th street or 23rd street station on the 1 line. Very creepy. This morning, on my way in to work, I saw them for the third time and I had to take a picture with my phone’s camera because I had started to think that I had been hallucinating. This is in the top-five weird things I’ve seen in NYC.

Locked out

Locked out
Originally uploaded by TommyKirchmeier

I’ve decided to restart blogging on my blog again. Or maybe I’m going to start blogging as I never really did blog consistently. Wow, it’s amazing how when you say (or type) blog several times, it starts to sound weird again, like it did way back in 2005.

I did get some fair success with one post about a crash and burn job interview. It has made me the number two hit on google when you search for the company World Access Marketing: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=world+access+marketing&aq=0&oq=world+access+m&aqi=g4g-m1. As much as that company sucked, I hope they keep interviewing people so I can stay #2 on google.

Anyway, why the photo to the right? Well, I have thousands and thousands of photos and I plan to transform this from that seems to be about my crappy work life to a blog about the thing I love second-most outside of work: Photography. That’s not to say it will be all about shutter speeds and lighting. I may use photos to illustrate what I’m thinking or where I’m going.

Right now I"m showing one of my favorites. I love the sense of sadness and cold and the feeling that, yes, Shea Stadium may have been a sub-optimal baseball stadium but many summer nights were spent there. It was home, and i'm never going to get back in.

Thanks for reading this far,
-TK