Author: THE COAL SPEAKER

Vanishing phone booths in New York City

This weekend, we received a photo of pay phones on 37th St in New York City.

For those who don’t know, we collect these images around here.. those vestiges of the past are actually quite amazing.. 

Well, it just so happens that only hours after receiving this image, news broke in the city that these, and all other pay phones across Gotham, will become a distant memory!

It’s over..

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Frank Staudenmeier, RIP

The death of Schuylkill county commissioner Frank Staudenmeier is starting to sink in..

News began to rumor through mills late Saturday that Staudenmeier passed away while vacationing with family in Florida..

The worst of situations greeting what should have been the most joyful of situations..

Since that moment when the news broke to the local reading area, quiet contemplation and prayer has forced so many who knew and loved the Commissioner to realize that this, really, is real.

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Messages from space during a Super Snow Moon

Some may say this… with the notion that these bursts are coming from 500 million years ago, whomever or whatever sent the signals were not targeting humans.. There were no humans 500 million years ago. 

… imaginations ponder.. what if this 500 million year old message is just a dying planet.. one ravaged by war and pestilence.. one that is at its last days as life is numbered.. and the final forms of life send out a fast radio wave in the hopes that someone comes to save them. 500 million years later, we get their final cry for help.. 

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