Comments on: giant televisions installed throughout metro system…

by: Jerry

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 23:13:56 +0000

Screens like that are ridiculously expensive. But I’m so glad the money goes to that since the Metro has absoloutely no problems that could have beem fixed with that money.

by: jer

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:19:27 +0000

(amazing.)

also, I’d like to note that to increase the looking at the screens, the transit folks actually TURNED OFF the older screens in that station (just LED ticker things with only red) that said the time and when the next train was coming.

Yes, they removed a useful, appropriate and pleasant service that cost them nothing to have (though i’m sure they’ll pay hundreds at minimum to have the tickers removed) just in case anyone thought about looking away from the tv for a few seconds to see how much more of this they were going to have to stand through.

I really would like to see the stats on the number of jumpers at any given station before and after jumbotron installation. It will probably go down, which depresses me more than anything.

by: jonathan

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:48:02 +0000

Yeah i think it`s great that they set up these gigantic screens (and wasted millions of dollars in doing so) for us to stare at. I mean, just yesterday i was waiting for the subway car to roll in and take me home, and you know sometimes it can take a while, like when lost and/or desperate folk leap forth onto the tracks, or stab a fellow citizen, and so there i was watching this bit on the mute screen about how the government is planning on some cuts in financing the arts in primary school education, and thinking of cancelling creative programs altogether forever and for good and replacing them with memorization classes, and before i could even give a second thought to it all, and figure how my life sucks or how much i hate my job or how i haven`t been returning calls as of late, and how pointless it all is really, or how half my friends are depressed and scared and going through anxiety attacks mostly all the time, the metro door opened before me. I was quick to rest my ass on the last unnoccupied plastic seat (that old lady really thought she was gonna get it, but i was faster), and someone had left a copy of Metro there so i did some reading, and my horoscope said that my life was gonna change for the better so i am waiting.

by: SArah

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:10:56 +0000

Then they’re all on the train
their attention shifts to the Hour
or free Gazette
Heads are down
aimed at the same yellow-framed pictures.

Careful!
don’t lose that shred of cultural identity!

by: jer

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:06:56 +0000

they were all staring,
looking up at the glow,
careful not to miss anything.

packs of them,
gaping,
at steven tyler’s maw,
entertainment item.