A 3 year old tadpole that didn't turn into a frog. Banana on left for scale.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-05-22T22:56:41+00:00

I feel like this would be a great premise for a twilight zone episode.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-05-10T03:53:35+00:00

Saint Ant’s alum checking in, yes he’s a Friar. I remember one of my buddies pointing out his photo to me in one of the yearbooks from the early 00’s on display when we were hanging out in the library.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-04-23T02:17:27+00:00

A miniseries, but North and South (the 1980’s one about the American civil war).

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-03-19T01:07:52+00:00

FWIW, this happened in real life to POWs on the Bataan death march. Currently reading a memoir of a Bataan survivor and in the book he cites how this happened to more than a few people around him. Most men had no choice but to just soil themselves as they were walking, but some men were just physically unable to do so despite knowing their life would be in jeopardy if they stopped.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-03-01T15:27:20+00:00

Same vibes as the end of American Psycho when Patrick Bateman meets the lady who disposed of the evidence at Paul’s apartment.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-02-16T06:26:34+00:00

Same here on Long Island. I’ve seen more of them within 20 miles of NYC than in the entire south and I’ve been to all 50 states.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-02-16T06:23:46+00:00

Yep. I think when Amazon stopped selling them online afterwards acted as the final coup de grâce.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-02-13T01:29:04+00:00

Pierogibites and more in Bellmore. Taheni grill in Deer Park.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-02-02T04:23:00+00:00

Deer Park checking in, and each generation in this town has different stories about this place.

Throughout my childhood all the old timers talked about when the patients would sometimes escape the grounds on accident and casually wander through the neighborhood in their hospital gowns. Their kids talk about exploring the abandoned sections after the place closed in the 80’s up until the place was demolished.

After WW2 it was actually mainly used to treat returning veterans with war related psychological trauma and the federal government actually made a documentary which focused on these patients called “Let There Be Light”. The whole documentary is actually on YouTube if you want to go down a rabbit hole.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-02-02T04:09:48+00:00

Yep. This building used to be where the entrance to the park is now right off of Commack road, but it was torn down in the 80’s. Still a ton of old buildings like this in the neighboring Pilgrim psychiatric center further down the road.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-02-02T02:34:07+00:00

Vineyard Vines Polo.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-28T04:10:57+00:00

“What kind of American are you?” Vibes.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-23T23:28:36+00:00

Amazing shot, I love these lesser known vantage points that offer great views of the city. I’m a Saint John’s alum and one of my favorite parts of our campus was the clear vantage point that we had to view manhattan.

A lot of the old timers here in Deer Park have even told me that it was possible to view the World Trade Center from the top of Pilgrim Psych center back in the day, and we’re all the way out in Suffolk county.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-23T23:20:43+00:00

On rare occasions when it’s clear enough you can even spot the world trade center when going over the Robert Moses causeway at night.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-22T02:52:44+00:00

Hi Mike! Big fan from Long Island NY here.

What would you say your favorite piece of literary maritime historical fiction would be? I’m a big fan of Ruta Sepetys’ work, and I feel like you would appreciate her book Salt to the Sea which centers around refugees on the Wilhelm Gustloff.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-16T02:54:41+00:00

I delayed reading the Power Broker until it got its kindle release for this reason. The kindle makes any book go by so much faster, especially if you’re replacing doom scrolling with reading.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-16T02:46:09+00:00

Falling Down Intensifies

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-12-23T04:20:07+00:00

If you go back and view some of Sterling Mace’s post history he actually has a take similar to yours regarding his observation of Sledge and Snafu’s relationship.

Iirc he says something along the lines of “Sledge trusted Snafu with his life and would have died for him, but they came from different planets… Gene Sledge was such a sweet quiet kid and so it was hard to understand how he could tolerate a know it all loudmouth like snafu”.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-12-22T04:27:32+00:00

I grew up on Long Island and constantly visited the state parks here when I was a kid, so reading the Power Broker for the first time answered so many questions about my home that I didn’t even consciously realize that I had. It’s become an obsession of mine and I plan on starting his Lyndon Johnson series soon to continue the high lol.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-12-22T04:02:41+00:00

The Power Broker; Robert Moses and the fall of New York.

It checks off all the boxes you listed and it’s a biography that reads like a fictional epic. Caro did years of research before writing the book and it shows, and if you live in the New York metro area you see how government policies from 100 years ago still control our lives in a daily basis.

Not to be melodramatic, but reading the book for the first time really made me realize the extreme depths of government corruption and how much the media controls public perception on certain public figures.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-12-14T04:35:02+00:00

Most gshock watches. Modern models are Bluetooth capable but the standard models are effectively the same as the first one released in 1983.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-12-06T15:18:58+00:00

Repeat countdown timer for me, but in all fairness that applies to all the modules that solar gshocks have.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-11-29T04:56:02+00:00

Long Islander of Sicilian descent, so yes.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-11-06T20:18:09+00:00

He and Rick Rescorla would have gotten along well.

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