I'm sure anyone out there who lives on Long Island has ridden the Long Island Rail Road at least once in his lifetime. Maybe it was to see a Rangers game or a concert or a Broadway show. And maybe the experience wasn't rife with delays, broke-down trains and asshole-y ticket-takers, and I'm sure you thought, "Hey, this is kinda fun." You. Are. Wrong.
Remember that John Carpenter movie They Live, starring 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper? The one where he and Keith David beat the everlasting shit out of each other for six goddamn minutes? There were these sunglasses in that movie, and when a character wore them, he could see things as they really were, which were normally hidden to the human eye. Money and billboards had hidden subliminal messages. Normal looking people turned out to be butt-ugly aliens.
Well this blog is going to be a pair of those "Hofmann lenses", showing the ins and outs of the daily LIRR commute. I'm not sure how regular updates will be, but if it takes me four hours to get home (which it has on several occasions), you can bet there will be a post.
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