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zer0gee
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No Jaywalking by zer0gee

November 30th, 2008 6:14 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Follow the traffic signals!

Choose a neighborhood with plenty of traffic signals. Walk a path according to their desires, determined using the following rules:

- If there is one walk signal, cross the street in that direction and continue walking straight ahead until the next corner.
- If there is no walk signal, turn the corner without crossing the street, and keep walking straight ahead until the next corner.
- If there is more than one walk signal, retrace your steps to previous corners until the signals take you in a new, clear direction.
- If there are no traffic signals, cross in the direction that you are already facing and keep walking.

Continue on in this way until you either hit a dead end (i.e. you are supposed to walk straight, but there is no more road) or you find yourself back at a corner that you have already visited.

Happy Taskgiving extravaganza! I decided to combine this task with Something Very Good on Thanksgiving. I started out waiting on my chosen corner. After either something fantastic happened or half an hour had passed, I followed the walk signal as indicated in this task. When I came to an intersection with a don't walk signal, I stopped on that corner and waited again. I repeated this pattern until I was finished tasking. There will be links in the praxis below to take you to the related praxis at the appropriate times.

I tend to think of this task as a derive of sorts, so that's how I treated it. The city told me where to go and I looked at interesting things along the way - photos are below.

I started at the corner of Belmont and Clark because this can be a very exciting corner, and I have a lot of history there. Back in the late eighties, all kinds of alternative kids used to hang out there after the teen club closed at four in the morning - the Dunkin' Donuts on that corner is still nicknamed "Punkin' Donuts" because of this. I had some really good times there. Most recently - about two weeks ago - I saw a jaw-dropping brawl among a large group of about thirty transvestites, which included a whole lot of pulling hair and tearing off of clothing, accompanied by screeching and name-calling. You never know what's going to happen at that intersection. As fate would have it, nothing really spectacular did.

detour!

After half an hour, I followed the walk signal one block east to Belmont and Halsted, where the don't walk signal stopped me again.

detour!

From here, the signals sent me one block south to a three-way intersection at Halsted, Clark, and Barry.

detour!

After that, I went four blocks southeast to Clark, Diversey, and Broadway.

detour!

(a man with a long white beard I pass smiles and says, "Gobble gobble gobble!" I laugh back.)

Then I was off to Diversey and Sheffield.

detour!

A weird quirk of slanted crosswalks and a string of walk signals sent me a long way down to Lincoln and Webster.

detour!

(a man on a bike rides by and says, "Happy Turkey Day!")

I consider this a dead end because if I didn't quit at that point, I would be dead - I had to go pick up Molotov from her place of employment so we could get to makin' the Thanksgiving dinner.

one more time!

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Hollywood Mirror
damn bears
I like this thing
It's cold and I need cocoa
home away from home
pretty shadows
Baladoche
Thanksgiving greetings
Century Mall facade
More greetings
this makes no sense
gargoyle!
overhead
passing view
construction site
Wiggly Field
autumn ghosts
lonely Zipcar
Black Wednesday oops?
inside the shop
Campaign headquarters
funny sign
flower shop
I like this fence
Spicy Pickle!
bird prints in cement
front door of John Barleycorn pub
route map

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