I walk through my blindness the way I saunter down streets in Paris: unfettered and alive, ever delighted by the raw material of the senses. Come along with me. Just don’t try to take my arm unless I ask. What’s a flaneur? Read the first post, ![Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/04/isle_royale_fog.jpg "Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]")
"Brendan, this is what the world looks like all the time to me. Just a little fog. It’s a fine day for boating on the Great Lakes.” Without missing a stroke he turned to dart a skeptical glance at me. Brendan the Navigator. When we named him I didn’t tell his mother everything the legendary Irish name implied. But I imagined him taking on the role of navigator for me. Growing up with Coastal Survey charts and tales of Great Lakes shipwrecks, he came to know Superior as another home. He never doubted the wisdom of canoeing there with a father who was half blind. 
If there is an emerging genetic underclass, I could run for class president or class clown. Read more in 
![Charlotte Casiraghi in a red dress. [Source: Stylophile]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/02/charlotte_casiraghi_red_dress.jpg "Charlotte Casiraghi in a red dress. [Source: Stylophile]")
When I figured out who Charlotte Casiraghi was, I realized that I once sent a poem to her mother. 
Poet and street artist Miss Tic isn't exactly a kid in a hoodie with a can of spray paint. Maybe she can still run like hell when the police show up, but can she sprint in high heels? Well-known in international avant-garde circles, her work is exhibited now at the Venice Biennale as well as the alleys of Paris. ![Eugène Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. 1830. Louvre, Paris. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/05/delacroix_liberty_1830_2.jpg "Eugène Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. 1830. Louvre, Paris. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]]")
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Bill Cunningham laughs with the puddle-jumpers on Fifth Avenue in this week’s On the Street photo essay. He muses that this form of water ballet isn’t appreciated in snow-sensible places like Wisconsin and Colorado where people plod in heavy boots, but I think it’s possible wherever there is slush.
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Fashionista Street: Taking the Plunge
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February 2, 2023 at 6:00am
by Mark Willis
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Bill Cunningham Documents A ‘Gospel Miracle’
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January 25, 2023 at 8:37am
by Mark Willis
He didn’t have a ticket to the Inauguration. He didn’t have an official assignment from the Times. Bill Cunningham just got on a train and went to Washington. He stayed on the street, where he had freedom to move and take it all in. At the moment Barack Obama put his hand on Lincoln’s [...]
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Fashionista Street: Stepping Up
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March 24, 2023 at 12:05am
by Mark Willis
This week’s On The Street photo essay includes an audio narration by Bill Cunningham. He talks about some stunning spring shoes that caught his eyes. The photographer sounds almost avuncular. Who wouldn’t want him to snap her picture? And he swears it’s all in a day’s work — no evening wear here. “These women [...]
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Fashionista Street : April Can Wait
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March 16, 2023 at 6:30am
by Mark Willis
[Photo by Bill Cunningham/NYT]
I know this cafe. It’s just a hop, skip, and a jump from the Pont des Beaux Arts foot bridge and the statue of Voltaire. It has a grand view of the Quai de la Seine, where it can feel as windswept as the Russian steppe even in June. Traffic noise on [...]
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Fashionista Street: Selling Short
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February 25, 2023 at 12:15am
by Mark Willis
[Photo by Bill Cunningham/NYT]
Count me among the true believers in Burton Malkiel”s A Random Walk Down Wall Street. That’s a flaneur’s approach to capitalism if ever there were one. I don’t lose sleep at night worrying about leading economic indicators. I’m hunkered down with the bears right now. As the economy sinks deeper into recession, [...]
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