Magic Hour

(All photos taken with Canon S110 Digital Elph)


Crossing the Whitestone Bridge


Unisphere, Flushing Meadow Park, as seen from the Van Wyck


The Kennedy House, Forest Hills

Sorry, I thought this was Yankee Stadium

Some guy from New Jersey might get jail time for running across the field at Shea carrying a Howard Stern poster. Apparently this guy is the first to be prosecuted under the Calvin Klein law. Yes, that Calvin Klein. No, I am not making this up.

Read the story.

Some other handy laws for living in NYC.

Technology gone awry

Further proof that Google, Overture et al REALLY need to work on contextual keyword advertising:

CNN.com - Bowie cancels show after stagehand dies

What to do

I'm contemplating avoiding Manhattan altogether the week of the RNC. Not so much because something might blow up, but because taking the LIRR into Penn will be a nightmare - and possibly not an option at all. In fact taking any sort of public transportation into town will be a nightmare, since my commute takes me through midtown no matter what.

Ugh.

"I wear black on the outside..." Well, you know the rest.

Though not aging as gracefully as say, David Bowie, Morrissey impresses with his new track "Irish Blood, English Heart." You can watch the video here.

Then again he looks alot better than Robert Smith (who guests on "All Of This" on the Blink 182 record...definitely check that out.)

New York, I Love You...Now Change

Browsing through Krukoff's The Other Page, came across this bit, regarding those who lament change...

Everyone stop, this is silly. "There goes the neighborhood" has been thrown around this island since it was bought for 60 guilders worth of Dutch crap. The most obnoxious voices in debates of "sooooul-ruuuuining arrrrrchitecture" and displacement of mom-and-pop stores are almost always the so-called "activists" with no sense of history other than their own. NYC (and its future) is (and will always be) based on the concept of growth and change. It's an endless loop of development, construction and protest where the only differences are the people with short-term memories.

Eric and I were talking recently about what we like most about New York. His answer was that he loves how the city is constantly changing. How it reinvents itself.

Our history is about change, and while we've made mistakes (see Penn Station), the city would not be what it is today without it.