This past weekend, my wife, three-year-old daughter and I threw our swim suits and towels into a rental car, cranked the air conditioning and abandoned heat wave-plagued New York City for the northern climes of Vermont, in search of some of the best swimming holes in New England.
Tresor: I've been to Tresor more times than I'm proud of, but this abandoned heating plant epitomizes the city's underground techno scene.
It's just that bodies abandoned in desert heat tend to mummify.
Today, the couple is still waiting on their conversion, which won't be done until September because of a growing backlog of other Northeasterners desperate to abandon costly heating oil.
Here you'll find series of pictures of human aging, decaying Navajo wall drawings, abandoned buildings, heat-and light-damaged desert detritus and even abrupt earthquake wreckage.
When it was really cold, they'd go to her dad's, a longtime squatter in an abandoned house heated by a wood-burning stove. .
Indeed, the impression of the performance as a whole is one of caution and calculation rather than heat and abandon.
As the city grew richer in the 1980's, food courts abandoned the tropical heat for air-conditioned shopping malls.
So while it doesn't feature the Francis trademarks of high-strung horses in high-stakes races, "Dead Heat" doesn't abandon the sport as much as turn it inside out, so we can inspect one of the many small, labor-intensive businesses that operate behind the scenes in this rarefied and utterly exotic world.
After all, if house dwellers wanted to abandon their dishwashers and their central heating and their instant hot baths and join me, they could.
