Say, What Chu Looking At?

So some of you don’t know it, but I moved to Harlem.

I have a wonderful studio apartment with two huge windows, one of the spanning from floor to ceiling.  This is great during the day to open up the apartment to the sunlight.  Things get nice and bright, but at night it gets a little iffy.   Everyone can see in so I keep my blinds closed, curtains drawn, and windows slammed shut.   Worse, the windows had these crazy little window guards so I couldn’t open them up past 4 inches.   I got rid of those suckers so I can open the windows nice and wide.  Child safety?  Fuck that, I want my air!

Anyway, on to tonight.  The problem with these windows is there’s no sound buffering.  Unlike my old place, where my windows faced the back of other buildings, my current windows face a street.  All I’ve been hearing over the last 10 minutes are sirens screaming past and lots of yelling.   I think the local kids are getting into a fight — there have been shootouts and everything.   Crazy – I’ve heard tearing sounds too.  WTF — I know its Harlem but what gives?

MAN, I just heard what sounds like fucking gas grenades going off.   What a pain.  Last time I heard this kind of mayhem was last year when the damned Z-Virus kicked into..

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Nah.  Couldn’t possibly be that again.   I still have scars from last year’s outbreak, but they figured it out and eliminated that virus, didn’t they?

BLITEOTW 2009 #2