Praxis in the form of text, then pictures with titles and captions.

I drifted from when I woke up around noon to around 4PM. I started by taking the first bus I saw, a 59U, downtown. I got off at Market Square and just started wandering.

I first was drawn by the different construction sites downtown. I saw an Army-Navy Surplus store and bought a new bandanna. I wandered down a dark alley and ended up between the convention center and the river.

Under the convention center I wandered down to the river, and then back up to Penn Ave.

I walked up Penn, stopping at a bar with a sign for Chicken Bacon Panini. I had one, and a Rum and Pineapple. Further up Penn, I browsed a book store, a grocery store, and the Leaf and Bean, a combo cigar shop and coffee house.

Finally, my feet got sore from my new shoes, so I headed over to Liberty to catch a bus back to Oakland and Squirrel Hill.

On the bus back, at a red light, the driver grabbed a loose soda can, got off the bus, and headed towards a trash can to throw it out.

The passenger behind me said pretty loudly to me "Now's our chance! Go! GO!" We didn't, but we did have a good talk after about what we would have done if we had, and the cops had caught us.

"What the hell were you doing with that bus?"

"Sorry officer! I must have gone mad with power!"

When I was listening to my iPod for parts of the drift, this is what was on it:

I Like the Way Jenny Scrubs - DJ Earworm
Stairway to Bootleg Heaven - DJ Earworm
Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
Dona Dona - G String Quartet (now known as Wine in the Morning)
Through The Roof 'n' Underground - Gogol Bordello
Start Wearing Purple - Gogol Bordello
Gypsy Part of Town- Gogol Bordello
So Long, Marianne - John Cale & Suzanne Vega
I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen
My Back Pages - Marshall Crenshaw
Everybody's Talkin' - Patty Larkin
You Still Touch Me - Sting
The Soul Cages - Sting
Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
Summer in the City - Three Dog NIght
Little Drop Of Poison - Tom Waits
Is Everybody In - William S. Burroughs Covering The Doors
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Waltzing Matilda- Tom Waits

It was an amazing little drift. I had never previously wandered the strange space between Downtown and the Strip District. I think I understand a little better how Pittsburgh flows together after making that little trip down Penn. I found a lot of street art, saw a lot of people, and generally enjoyed wandering around on a strangely warm winter day dressed like a badass.