Y. Balloo

@whyballoo

New Yorker with a MetroCard collection and a camera Banner by @rachelgeorge

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Y. Balloo@whyballoo· 13d

I don't care about the cost of the vet visits. I care about my little friend and how much it stresses her out and wanting her to be happy and comfortable.

Cordy snoozing by the window facing a cloudy sky

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· 23d

I'll take a plain shmear on an everything boob lick, thanks

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jul 8

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jul 6

Got the Haneda airport exclusive pilot and flight attendant Pikachu plushies on my way out 💙🇯🇵🎌

Pilot and Flight Attendant Pikachu holding hands

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jul 4

Ben Stiller reading the Dictionary to break a mental sweat in Dodgeball

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jul 3

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jul 2

I'm so twisted that DarkKrazyMan is just a normal white man to me

Excerpt from Kotaku article about Sony catching hell across the Internet announcing no more physical games:

"Perhaps the funniest place I found someone yelling at Sony about the end of physical games was over on the Sony Pictures official Twitter account. Usually no one engages with it and its most recent post about Talladega Nights leaving theaters after a limited return only features five replies as of July 1. But the most recent response is from a user named DarkKrazyman, who replied: GOOD THING I OWN A PHYSICAL COPY THEN HUH!!??"

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 29

Office hack: I'm bringing gifts back for the folks covering for me while I'm gone not just out of gratitude but also so they don't ask me to cover for them lest they feel obligated to bring me a gift next time they travel

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 29

I've decided I'm bringing this back to NYC with me because it's better than what I currently do which is carry handkerchiefs and I feel like this every time I pull one out to tidy up.

Bobby King of the Hill,

Well, I need a window seat because this flower is wiltin'

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 29

I walked along the Shirakawa River this afternoon and marvelled that a river running through a city could possibly be this clean. Not even litter. Impossible in America.

Kelp and clear glassy water of the Shirakawa

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 29

Also as a person who sweats quite a bit and loves to accessorize, I wish I'd been introduced to the tenugui sooner in life.

Wearing a tenugui I bought from chiojin Temple to manage perspiration in the Kyoto heat

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 27

I'm in Kyoto, Japan for the first time

Two bags of chips, a bottle of suntory water and a bottle of milk tea

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 24

Not one of Tarantino's best but I think it's got charm

NY Post cover with the headline The Hateful Slate because Israel, cop and private property hating Mamdanites win primaries

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 24

A friend just sent me this text:

Text from Tofu Slab

Shoutout to Charlie Kirk for being racism free for 9 months

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 22

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 20

Primary early voting in NYC continues through this weekend and voting concludes on Tuesday June 23. GotV NYC! Local elections matter and this primary has reps for Congress, state Assembly, and city council on the ballot- all instrumental roles for making NY great. Better things are possible!

Selfie in my elevator with an I voted sticker wearing a zabars hat and state comedy's "you know what I'm gonna say" T-shirt

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 18

It's EXTREMELY rare for me to find a bag that I find both handsome AND functional and the feeling of my new camera bag bring both is SUBLIME. It has so many pockets! And they're all placed so well! And there are even HIDDEN POCKETS!!!!

OMG look how well padded and segmented the interior is for my camera and lenses!

But wait do I have to take the bag off every time I want my camera?! NO, THERE'S AN EASY ACCESS SIDE POCKET TO GET THE CAMERA OUT

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 12

A day late A buck short I'm writing The report

[Captain America voice] Bookshelf ASSEMBLED

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 11

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 10

"fuck FIFA, push it to 7"

Adam silver using multiple cellular telephones

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 9

Some neighborhoods were eerily quiet. Washington square park was pretty chill for how busy it usually is- there were a lot of skateboarders taking advantage of the space, and Chinatown felt near empty.

A person in midair doing a jump on a skateboard silhouetted against the left pillar of the Washington square arch

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 9

Couldn't sit still to watch the game at home tonight, so I went out and got photos of NYC locked in. Tough game tonight, Knicks in 5.

A woman watching the game through a window into a car where men gather in various Knicks gear with the game on TV in the far background

4 people play ping pong in herald square while the game is projected on the wall across the sidewalk behind them

People watch the game on a TV in a pizza parlor on bleecker Street

The empire State building lit up in Orange and Blue

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 7

Took some neat photos of an orchard orb weaver spider that found its way into my apartment after confirming it isn't poisonous. I'll reverse the order on that in the future. Maybe.

Orchard orb weaver spider, easily identifiable thanks to Green limbs and a silver abdomen.

This photo is actually vertically flipped the spider is suspended upside down from its web from my ceiling

Black and white photo of the spider against the white ceiling

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 6

OCD thing I started doing years ago for trips to new cities: flag and categorize places I want to see, go, and eat in Google maps. Cannot overstate just how useful it is to be able to pull out my phone and quickly find the next thing to see or eat. Tedious for sure, but it really helps

Google Maps of Tokyo city with various locations flagged either green, as museums, camera stops, museums, restaurants, or shrines

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 6

One of the best video games ever made

Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island SNES box cover

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 5

There is a slice of cake under there

A slice of chocolate brownie cake buried under whipped cream

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 5

b&w

Black and white self portrait in a collared shirt and sweater

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 4

The TROMpet

Y. Balloo@whyballoo· Jun 3

How it feels liking a post, scrolling away, then scrolling back to give it a repost