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today in chronological photorific order! thanks for reading this, by the way. 

new construction by Tivoli Gardens. it reminds me of an abandoned Soviet project from the 80s- in a good way, like ooh how modern! I think they're going to be office buildings. 

the few scraps of litter I've seen in this city appear to be submerged in this canal. this makes me sound like a fucking goddamn socialist (which I totally am), but Copenhagen is proof that if the  government takes care of its people, the people will take care of their city. this seems so fucking obvious, but the U.S. stridently insists on doing the exact opposite. I cut through the train station today on my jaunt and saw exactly two obviously homeless people. two people in a city of 1.2 million? and they were sitting on benches that didn't have the fuck-you-don't-lay-here dividers, and they weren't being hassled during the time I noticed them? when I notice shit like this because suddenly it's a novelty, it speaks volumes about how much fucked-uppery we get jaded to in the States. 

what if the sculpted foliage was actually here first and somebody said "hey, these trees are so cool, we should build something rad over there to be framed by them"? 

citadelica! the girl must be a witch! she's got your mind body and soul hitched... never mind. 

Dansk katten søver!

just a random building on a nondescript side street, taken through a window. 

this sign exists because it happened once and it looked just like this. 

a random snitzy restaurant on the canal. the current exchange is about 7 krone to a U.S. dollar, which means that the monkfish with mushroomsn cost approximately $25. 

this building is kidney-shaped from the front. i love structures that hunker down.

on the bridge constructed solely for pedestrians and bikes. 

and you, brutal-cubist masterpiece, get the Roger Dean filter. 

a random street near my temporary lair, lined with bikes as every street is. so many bikes! most aren't even locked! nearly all of them are single-gear and clunky and equipped with baskets, and no one wears helmets or asshole spandex, and everyone cruises along the bike lanes that line every single main street, often conversing at normal volumes. 

one of the dragons that borders every stairwell here.

and its surreal neighbor.

and at the end of the street. didja know? the Danish meaning of skank is "buffet or sideboard." 

you can tell the well-being of a society by its indulgence of pure aesthetics. 

Vesterbro. 

and then it started to snow! sloppy stingy horizontal snow! I know, selfies are embarrassing and prove that I'm fucking alone, but I was really happy and wanted to capture the moment. this is before my clothes soaked through and my phone died from the cold and I got slightly surly. 

this city is everything I could have hoped for. 

and on another weird street that ended in a massive empty parking lot lit by fluorescent strip-lights, this! oh lord yeah! 

they don't fuck around with their badass tags in these parts. 

it felt like someone was throwing a slurpee at my face. 

...so I ducked into a foofy grocery store. digital price tags! they even blinked back and forth between the regular and "member" prices! this is awesome! I felt like a fucking hick taking this picture. 

so I took a picture of the muesli section too, because fuck it. I was already dripping melted snow and looking sadly bedraggled at this point. 

all the cars on the street below are now covered in a few inches of snow. it's cool to be someplace for a very finite amount of time and be able to witness its complete transformation.