DickandChick

2011-10-07T17:30:00.001-04:00

Beach

2011-08-01T11:00:00.000-04:00

Tiny DC

2011-07-15T11:00:00.000-04:00

One of the best views ever.

Pooh

2011-07-14T13:00:00.000-04:00

In honor of the new Winnie the Pooh movie opening Friday.

Working Inspiration

2011-06-28T18:00:00.001-04:00

My friend took me to
Bare Escentuals.

I think of it as makeup for girlies who do not like makeup.

Anyway, it helped make me more confident in a new freelance job...yay.

Tres Leches Cake

2011-06-24T12:00:00.001-04:00

Maybe I've been watching too much Cooking Channel lately

But this cake is stuck in my head.

I'm not even really a milk person...but damn, that looks so good.

Clarence Clemons, Springsteen’s Soulful Sideman, Dies at 69

2011-06-19T09:00:00.003-04:00

As part of my growing up in Jersey I got to see these guys play countless times & was sad to hear about Clarence dying yesterday:

Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, whose jovial onstage manner, soul-rooted style and brotherly relationship with Mr. Springsteen made him one of rock’s most beloved sidemen, died on Saturday at a hospital in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 69.The cause was complications of a stroke he suffered last Sunday at his home in Singer Island, Fla., a spokeswoman for Mr. Springsteen said.

In a statement released Saturday night, Mr. Springsteen called Mr. Clemons “my great friend, my partner.”

“With Clarence at my side, my band and I were able to tell a story far deeper than those simply contained in our music,” he added. “His life, his memory and his love will live on in that story and in our band.”

Chickalicious

2011-06-07T19:00:00.002-04:00

Sometimes you think they open a place just for you.

Chickalicious, NYC.

This is What I'm Thinking

2011-05-22T18:00:00.000-04:00

I Love It

2011-04-18T17:00:00.000-04:00

This Makes My Heart Smile

2011-04-15T12:00:00.000-04:00

...oh, bother.

You Know

2011-02-11T12:00:00.000-05:00

Eat It

2011-02-01T11:30:00.000-05:00

This dress is made out of asparagus & cabbage.

I'd wear it...then eat it.

Happy New Year

2011-01-02T12:00:00.000-05:00

When was the last time...

2010-12-07T15:30:00.000-05:00

...you noticed a blue brick house with striped window awnings & charm coming at you from down the block?

I got this off some fancy pants home designer's site. I'm guessing this beautiful blue is somewhere villagey in NYC (but the site doesn't say).

He does work for people named bunny & describes his work as having a cozy glamour...a little pretentiously stated...but thanks for the much needed dose of color today.

Do I Feel Like This Today?

2010-12-02T18:00:00.000-05:00

No.

Inspiration

2010-10-31T11:00:00.001-04:00

Yep, I feel this way (& why shouldn't everyone?).

No Butterflies

2010-10-11T14:00:00.003-04:00

A Needed Distration

2010-08-03T13:00:00.001-04:00

Very cool dress, if something needs a video to help you actually wear it

how could it not be awesome?

7 ways to wear this dress.

Quote for the Day

2010-07-15T22:30:00.000-04:00

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

What the?!

2010-06-19T00:00:00.001-04:00

Pulled up to the gas pump with my gas tank facing the wrong way.

I forgot my car keys on the counter in the bank & walked all the way to my car without them.

I left an entire bag of groceries that I payed for in the store & drove home without them.

I drove the the exact opposite way of the destination I wanted to go.

I dialed a number & by the time it started ringing I'd forgotten who I was calling.

Happy Arbor Day

2010-04-30T12:30:00.001-04:00

It's surely a nice bed

But for $15,000 (the price of the bed)

I'd rather not be plagued with

nightmares about being pummeled with bird shit.

2010-04-16T11:00:00.000-04:00

This guy had a photo of a child on his truck & is blatantly using it to make people feel guilty & pay him to test their homes for radon. I damned him then ran him off the road.

So, you want to know about Dick, huh?

He doesn't participate in this blog anymore (like you didn't know that already).

We met at a long ago job.

We were both starting out & sort of bonded over that.

He made me laugh during some long, overworked days.

After I left that job we drifted apart.

I heard that he married a coworker (long story).

We got back in touch when he landed at another job I was working.

He was in the process of leaving that marriage.

Since then he married & divorced again & now is with someone else.

I don't think she likes this blog (she had problems with some

of the LONG AGO writings of Dick). But who knows,

maybe she doesn't read this anymore, especially since he

hasn't contributed here FOR YEARS.

Anyway, that is the only reason I probably won't go into

more detail about Dick.

Suffice it to say that he's a true friend of mine & always will be.

We don't talk much at all lately...but that's ok.

He's pretty non judgmental about my life & I try to do the same for him.

Crap, this turned out boring.

I'll write up a Dick story & post it next, deal?

"Are You Taking a Video?"

2010-04-08T16:30:00.001-04:00

Did I Steal it? Or Did She Just GIVE it to me??

2010-03-22T13:30:00.002-04:00

OK, maybe I'm not going to hell after all.
This woman left all her shit right out there
on her table in a crowded restaurant & took her kid to the bathroom.

It was like she dumped out her purse & scrammed.
Um, I see a purse, an iPhone & what's that?!
her credit card just sitting there unattended on her table.

I looked, & looked, & looked again.
Nope, no owner in site.
I looked at the people around me & they didn't seem to think it was odd at all.

I couldn't figure out if they were all just unobservant or just plain stupid.

How do you think she knew that I really wanted an iPhone?

Reason # 368 Why I Am Going to Hell

2010-03-15T23:30:00.000-04:00

See that car?

There's a real live nun in there.

I took the photo with my phone

after inadvertently flipping her the bird

because she triggered one of those traffic lights

that only go off if someone is on a side street waiting to turn onto

this particular road.

(her light turned green making mine turn red).

I didn't realize it until the fires of hell

were already on me that she was a nun.

I know if she saw what I did

she'd have pulled me over right away

& hit my knuckles with the same ruler

that Sister Beatrice used to smack

my 7 year old hands when she saw I had actually worn nail polish to school.

I can still feel the burn.

OK, maybe I stand by my actions after all.

Fashion for 2010

2010-02-27T11:00:00.002-05:00

For the men we have...penis trousers?!

& if that wasn't bad enough...

What the hell is growing on his head & shoulders?

Why do we need a map to know where his aorta is?

& more odd still...he's got a 3rd arm why?

If you're intrigued enough to see a video...

here you go

Wait...here's some women's fashion for 2010:

Seems we don't need vagina pants...nope, we need bloomers.

I think I'll get a pair to wear under this:

Think they'll show?

I had to end this post with something pretty to try

& wipe the last to things out of our minds.

You're welcome.

I Love This Photo

2010-02-22T11:30:00.001-05:00

This was taken by J (while driving).

I like how it's framed so nicely in the car's mirror.

Snow on the distant mountains in the background

& in the reflection on the car.

It makes me smile.

(LA at its finest.)

Art Exhibit

2010-02-16T16:30:00.000-05:00

Went to the Museum of Modern art to see the Tim Burton exhibit.

More to come...I liked it

What do you think?

Buff

2010-02-05T18:15:00.003-05:00

If there's such a thing as being too buff...um...this is it.

Apropos of nothing...I had déjà vu (did I get the accents right?) moment at the gym today.

I was on one of those stepper machines.

Not sure what they're really called.

You know, the ones where you pump your legs up & down

& also move your arms back & forward like you're cross country skiing.

It's not a ski machine...yeah, ok...I know...who cares.

I was slogging away with my iPod precariously perched in the little cup holder thing on the machine...

One wrong move of my flailing right arm & blammo the iPod goes flying across the room.

I got my hand tangled in the cord & nearly ripped my eardrum out in the process.

I got off the machine with a look of idiocy on my face.

Um...damn...where did it go? No iPod anywhere.

The guy in back of my on the treadmill motioned to my right & I still couldn't find it.

"No, your other right", he said (what? I was flustered & looking left).

There it was under the machine next to me...under, yeah, like I'd see that.

So, I thanked the eagle eyed guy & collected my things & got out of there.

Happy Friday.

Have a nice weekend.

I would wish you a group hug from the guys pictured above

But I'm afraid they might crush you.

Beauty

2010-02-01T12:00:00.003-05:00

I walked by the Municipal Building in lower Manhattan last Friday.

Ever walk by something a million times & never know the amazing story that goes with it?

I'd always wondered what statue was up there.

I finally looked it up & came away with a interesting story.

The statue of Civic Fame on top of the Municipal Building was installed in 1913 & is a gilded figure designed by Adolph Weinman. Standing barefoot on a sphere, she wears a flowing dress & a crown of laurels to signify glory.

Audrey Munson(1891-1996) was an American model & actress, she was the model or inspiration for more than 15 statues in New York City including this one.

The model for "Civic Fame", Audrey Munson, had an even harder & more intense life. At the turn of the century she was a supermodel for sculptors and painters. In some sense that yielded a much more permanent record of her than most of today's supermodels will enjoy as there are literally dozens of important sculptures of her in New York City & around the world bearing her likeness. When the movies came about, she became an actress & entered history books as the first known woman to star in a movie fully naked.

Here's
the Wikipedia article (if you want to know more...like geekhead me).
This woman had the most unusual & tragic life. From the height of fame...through a court case involving a doctor who killed his wife to be with her...to entering a mental asylum at the age of 39 where she died at the age of 104.

Jump Rope?

2010-01-21T13:00:00.000-05:00

They claim it's a jump rope.

But judging by the ad...I'm not so sure.

Seems she likes it so much she needs two.

Ack

2010-01-18T10:00:00.000-05:00

I was fooling around at a red light

& pulled this site up on my phone.

I starting laughing so hard...I don't know...

I just thought it was screwy looking on my phone.

Man Vs. Wild

2010-01-13T22:00:00.000-05:00

I've been away for so long...sorry...weird that it took watching Bear Grylis give himself an enema on the Discovery Channel to bring me back to blog world.

To put it mildly, this guy is insane...don't watch this...you might puke.

Why did I post it then? Shock value? To shock myself into posting again?

No idea...but here it is.

Today - A Saga

2009-12-21T16:00:00.001-05:00

So, here's what happened.

Got up this morning...got dressed...all the normal stuff...

Blah, blah, blah...

Drive to the train...so far...so good...

Park in the parking garage.

Stick my arm (ok, my entire body) out of the car window

to get my parking receipt.

As the gate goes up & lets me in I discover I have no wallet.

Um...no $$$, no credit cards & no Metrocard for the train.

What?! I tell Alamar (the parking garage guy) my dilemma.

He smiles (& I see inside his head to the place he has reserved for retards & children) & raises the gate so I can leave & not pay for the 5 minutes of parking I accrued in his garage.

Crap, I call my boss & tell him the (boneheaded) deal.

He laughs with me...no...at me.

I have no id card to get into the 7 steps of hell (fancy security) if I even got as far as work anyway.

I have no identity (am I really here?).

Do I laugh or cry as I drive back home hoping I don't get stopped on the way without a license?!

Yeah, pretty much both at the same time.

Macy's

2009-12-06T00:00:00.000-05:00

Macy's knows how to do up Christmas.

The Christmas windows glowed as people passed by.

See that store on the right?

Conway's...I'd never ventured in until the other day.

Gotta say...if you're looking for the filthiest store in Midtown...this is it.

& I don't mean that in a good way either.

Annie Little

2009-11-28T00:30:00.002-05:00

I really like this song

& discovered I could download it for free

HERE from Amazon.

Coconuts

2009-11-24T08:30:00.001-05:00

I laughed so hard...enjoy.

Sleep

2009-11-08T16:30:00.000-05:00

If I had an alcove with a bed in it

like these...damn if I'd ever get out of it.

Halloween Orange

2009-11-01T23:00:00.000-05:00

Friday's Empire State Building colors.

The night before in was blue for a certain team in the World Series.

Why is this so riveting?!

2009-10-19T10:00:00.000-04:00

Stevie Nicks singing backstage while getting her makeup done.

I have no clue why I ended up watching this more than a couple times in a row.

Best Dumplings Ever

2009-10-11T23:30:00.000-04:00

The truck comes around once a week.

If you think something from a truck can't be heavenly...you'd be wrong.

Dumplings & a salad.

OK...I got nothing else...

I just wanted to post photos of dumplings.

Why not.

& The Magazine Said:

2009-10-07T00:00:00.002-04:00

What does home mean to you?

One of the readers wrote:

"Home is where I can take off my bra."

(I think I kinda like the non sappy spirit of this reader).

Huntley Hotel

2009-09-27T12:30:00.001-04:00

Just got back from an amazing trip out to the West Coast (L.A. style).

One of the best breakfasts of my life.

Oh, wow.

30 Rock

2009-09-18T00:30:00.000-04:00

A couple of weeks ago
I past filming for 30 Rock.
As I stood on the sidewalk across the street
The Southern woman next to me
asked..."what are they filming?"
"30 Rock", I said.
"Dirty Rock?", she asked.
Idiot, I thought.

Christmas themed show about the interns striking?

Kenneth the intern.

Tracy Morgan.

These 2 big guys play Tracy's bodyguards (& they are huge).

In Memoriam

2009-09-09T23:00:00.003-04:00

Marsh & McLennan, Inc. is a global risk & insurance services firm.

Prior to the September 11 Attacks, the corporation held offices on 8 floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 & 100. When American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the building as part of the attacks, their offices composed the entire impact zone, which was between floors 93 & 99. No one present in the offices at the time survived the attack & the firm lost 295 employees.

In my previous job, MMC was a client (before September 11, 2001). We did some work for them after September 11, 2001…mostly it involved tributes & memorials & it was not easy.

MMC's September 11 memorial is located in the plaza adjacent to the company's headquarters at 1166 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.

It is a beautiful, peaceful, sad & lovely spot & I go there often for a lunch break.

http://memorial.mmc.com/

Tootsies

2009-09-03T23:30:00.000-04:00

It was so nice out today. I sat on a fountain at lunch & enjoyed the day. Some guy walked by & said, "nice toes." I'm still laughing.

Anatomy of a Beach House

2009-08-28T00:00:00.000-04:00

Left Boob

2009-08-25T00:00:00.001-04:00

I thought I lost my phone today.

OK, I kinda sorta thought I left it in my car

But I wasn't perfectly sure.

So I went throughout the day

feeling like my left boob was showing.

(you know, that vulnerable feeling without the exposure).

...ps...found the phone & now both boobs feel fine.

Hell Train

2009-08-13T00:30:00.001-04:00

Want to hear about hell…

…as I know it…

…it’s the train I was just on…

…mysteriously stalled…

…deep underground…

…hot…

…sticky…

…no seat to be had…

…jammed up against a strangers backpack…

…right in my face…

…nowhere to go…

…what’s that touching my leg…

…don’t look you do not want to know…

…I didn’t catch that last thing you said to me…

…do I look like I speak Indian…

…crap…

…yeah…

…that’s what I smell.

WTF

2009-08-08T01:00:00.000-04:00

Hey

Sunday

What the hell is up with you?!

Always Have Your Camera

2009-07-31T23:30:00.001-04:00

A couple of weeks ago
I went for a walk down Wall Street
& who did I see?
The Trumpster & looky here
at who was making a crazy face in the limo.
Trump was being all nicey-nice to the cop.
"Be good to my people", he said.
Nice guy?
Look at the lady in black on the right.
Think she thought much of The Donald?
I love that no one made a big deal about seeing a famous person on the street.
(except the girl with the camera).

2009-07-23T23:30:00.001-04:00

Almost done with the week.

Done.

Do you care?

You don’t, do you?

I’m not going to let it bother me.

Really, I won’t.

I bought an “I love the earth shirt”

the day I spent with my favorite girlie.

That T will remind me of that day now.

Forever.

Very cool.

Do you care now?

It’s a struggle, I know.

Not to worry

I will not cry

No, really, I won’t.

2009-07-16T23:30:00.000-04:00

Coming home today I was compelled to look up as this extremely skinny girl got on the train.

& I mean she was thin.

She had on a maxi dress that showed off her lack of breasts nicely.

Her dress was wrapped up around her waist & she wore skinny jeans on her stick legs.

She looked about 15 but was probably around 22.

She was tall & very pale (she made me feel tan & that just ain't so).

She had the whole Tilda Swinton look going...

you know...red hair, no eye makeup.

She had dirty fingernails & was clutching a shopping bag from Strawberry tightly in her hands.

Either she was a model (but then why the discount shopping?)

Or she was anorexic...or most probably both.

Anyway, I really wanted to take her home & clean her up & make her eat a sandwich.

But I didn't & now she's in my head & I wonder if I'll see her tomorrow.

Great Quote

2009-07-10T00:00:00.000-04:00

"The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn how to do it…by doing it…if a child learns that you can only learn things by doing them, that might be the most important thing you can give them.

History is about life, about change, the mystery of human nature, & it isn’t just about politics & the military & social issues, which is almost always the way it’s taught, it’s about music & poetry & drama & science & medicine & money & love…"

~David McCullough

Lunch

2009-07-04T00:15:00.000-04:00

On my way to lunch the other day

this is what I saw.

So damn cute.

These girlies were having so much fun posing for photos here.

Totally made my day.

Bored in Line

2009-06-20T12:30:00.000-04:00

I had 2 items & the line snaked to the left & was taking FOREVER.

I had to do something with my time on line...

So, out the camera came.

This store has everything from flimsy bikinis to overpowering cologne.

The line still wasn't moving & I didn't even feel a little bit like I was at the beach.

...or in California for that matter.

But I did appreciate the amazing chandeliers & the palm fronds.

This was the image on the shopping bag of the woman in front of me.

Reade Street

2009-06-16T01:00:00.001-04:00

The idea today was to walk down one street randomly

& see what would strike my fancy photography wise.

Langdon's florist got to me first.

I was swept away by all the greenery out front

& the fire escape's shadows overhead.

Something about that sign looked interesting to me.

I liked all the intersecting lines going off into the distance.

Cool reflections on the car.

Another pattern & I always love scrolly designs.

TGIF

2009-06-13T00:45:00.000-04:00

Ever been so in need of sleep that you don’t even realize how tired you re anymore?

See that? I left the ‘a’ out of ‘are’ above.

I seem to be too tired to go back & add it in.

Arousal

2009-06-05T23:00:00.000-04:00

The magazine said:

For men arousal begins with the body & the mind follows...women need an emotional encounter (& the body follows?).

Do you think that's generally true?

What's Not to Love?

2009-05-29T00:40:00.001-04:00

Walking down West 81st Street last Saturday.

If I had a gazillion dollars I'd so live here.

Fleet Week

2009-05-26T23:30:00.002-04:00

Saying goodbye to Fleet Week.

I was on my was to the Noodle place for lunch today.

Seriously, they were everywhere.

Last night’s commute home (inspired by J)

2009-05-20T22:00:00.000-04:00

It’s great when you get out of work with enough time to see the sunset.

If I had to title this it would be…

Racing home to pee.

Ballet

2009-05-18T23:47:00.002-04:00

Red seats at the New York City Ballet

Photo by Kyle Froman.

I stole this from Sheila’s site.

I don’t think she’d care (but I’m giving her credit anyway).

I went to see the ballet this weekend.

A girls only trip.

Most boys think ballet is icky.

I saw Gisele & it was as lovely as this photo.

Golden Gate

2009-05-14T23:00:00.002-04:00

Beautiful, right?

It was taken last weekend by J.

This photo is the perfect example of why I Love photography & art (& J).

They allow you the privilege of seeing through someone else's eyes.

2009-05-10T20:00:00.000-04:00

I gave this card to my mother.

Inside it said, "Do whatever you want on Mother's Day"

...or something like that.

Either you think it's funny

...or you don't.

A Little Topical News

2009-05-02T19:00:00.000-04:00

2009-04-28T00:00:00.000-04:00

Water Lily

2009-04-25T10:00:00.001-04:00

I love all sorts of museums because you can never be sure what's around the next corner.

Nenuphar (French for water lily) was built at Andrew Calder's workshop in France for the 1968 opening of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It is one of the artist's stabiles, or fixed sculptures, and the lyrical shapes cut from sheet steel convey the same gentle, graceful movement as his mobiles. Six silhouettes evoke the dark reflections of the water lily's flowering stalk and curling leaves. In fact, Calder conjured the entire intricate world of a windswept pond, varying the tendrils to suggest the shadowy presence of birds and fish among the lilies.

OK...I sort of get it now.

The cool thing about sculpture to me is how it looks in it's surroundings.

2009-04-21T08:00:00.000-04:00

He makes me feel...

Pretty & girlie & just a little bit naughty.

Anyway...I Thought it was Funny

2009-04-10T09:30:00.002-04:00

“Once I saw a duck walking down the street…so I went into Subway and ordered two pieces of bread, and they informed me that they could not do that, like there was some special rule at Subway that two pieces of bread weren't allowed to touch. So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like…give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck.”

~Mitch Hedberg

Happy Opening Day

2009-04-06T23:00:00.001-04:00

(click it to read it)

My team got rained out.

So my opening day is really tomorrow.

As I watched Baseball Tonight on ESPN

I thought how odd it was that so many of the highlights of the day

involved spitting.

I just want to see some fine baseball being played.

But now in HD clarity...I have to see arcing spit blobs being spewn EVERYWHERE.

I do sort of like the rainbows that can be seen gleaming off the gross saliva

(ok, that was really disgusting)

But that's beside the point.

Why the constant need to spit?!

Photos of the Day

2009-04-02T08:30:00.000-04:00

My lunch was so pretty I had to photograph it,

Avocado & cucumber wrapped in seaweed & rice with rolled in sesame seeds.

So tasty.

Hey, don't make that face, have you tried it?

Lately I've been eating lots of ginger (I love the color too).

An Amazing Place

2009-03-30T23:30:00.000-04:00

The Rock of Cashel (Irish: Carraig Phadraig), also known as Cashel of the Kings and St. Patrick's Rock, is a historic site in Ireland.

The Cathedral, built between 1235 and 1270. The Rock of Cashel served as the traditional seat of the Kings of Munster for several hundred years prior to the Norman invasion, though few remnants if any of the early structures survive. Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century A.D.

The complex has a character of its own, unique and native, and is one of the most remarkable collections of Celtic art and medieval architecture to be found anywhere in Europe.

Can you believe how old this history is?

Spent an afternoon here after it already closed for the day.

We walked around it & it was more like cliff hugging.

These are photos taken by J...damn good job too.

I was too busy trying not to fall off.

2009-03-28T00:30:00.000-04:00

I think I quite possible ate my weight in popcorn tonight.

Flower Obessed Still

2009-03-24T08:30:00.000-04:00

This time-lapse was created by Dave Allen, BBG's Web Manager, from over 3,000 digital photos, one taken every 3 minutes from April 18 to April 26, 2008, of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's famed Cherry Walk.

2009-03-18T22:30:00.001-04:00

(mine were just boring black...these are better)

If anyone out there knows of a brand of tights that do not fall down effectively giving you a webbed crotch in the process as you’re walking down the street, let me know.

I laughed so hard because that’s exactly what happened to me today & we can’t have tights falling down in public, now can we?…so I decided to hike up my dress because I ended up riding up in the elevator alone & I was just covering up what should remain private as the elevator doors opened to my floor & the security guy was none the wiser.

Oh yeah, & as I was paying for some kind of infused water at lunch time, I dropped my phone on the floor & the battery popped out. I picked it up only to discover that the back of the phone was missing.

Crap.

To my horror I had a feeling that it was now somewhere under the counter in filthland. Like I was going to stick my hand into that abominable darkness. I asked for a spoon & fished around for a bit & found it without trying to think too hard about what else could come crawling out from under there.

Flower Show

2009-03-16T12:30:00.000-04:00

I went to the Philly Flower Show last weekend & was inundated with flowers.

Dessert Shots

2009-03-11T15:30:00.001-04:00

I didn't mean to be away from here for so long.

Can you see why I was distracted?

My skinny girliefriend is having a good time fattening me up.

It is just so much fun to sit at a table filled with girlies

Chatting & doing dessert shots.

We made the waitress show us all the flavors

Then we proceeded to make her explain how these culinary orgasms were created.

I got the DOUBLE CHOCOLATE shot of joy.

For the 5 seconds it took me to hoover this baby down

My body nearly burst with ecstasy.

Ever Feel like such a GIRL?

2009-03-02T14:30:00.000-05:00

or ever feel such a girl?

Damn, sometimes someone makes you savor your femininity

in a very beautifully sensuous way.

Haiku for You

2009-02-26T08:00:00.001-05:00

You sing without words

That is called humming, stupid.

No poetry here.

Just a Cool Shot

2009-02-23T22:30:00.000-05:00

Art

2009-02-19T23:30:00.000-05:00

Maira Kalman is an artist that I just discovered online (illustrator, designer, author...all things I lump under the term ARTIST).

She posts on this lovely NYTimes site.

Cornered

2009-02-17T22:00:00.001-05:00

As I was walking from my car in the parking garage this morning

out of the corner of my eye

I saw a maintenance man in the dark corner

He eyed me up & looked at me in a way that made my knees go weak in a bad way.

His eyeballs glowed in the darkness.

I could have sworn they glowed an evil red too.

Thankfully, I was on my cell with my favorite person

So I didn't panic as much as I might have had I been more alone.

Turns out the guy was only waiting for me to pass

Before he turned on his loud power tool to fix the pipe in the corner.

See why I don't watch horror movies ever, ever, ever???

Happy Saint Valentine's Day

2009-02-14T11:00:00.001-05:00

I just got back from the store.

The girl that waited on me was beautiful.

She sort of looked like a younger Denise Richards but without that crazy look.

I asked her what she was doing for Valentine's Day.

I was sure she'd have fabulous plans with her prince of a boyfriend.

She looked very much like what a princess seems like in every Disney story.

She said she was going to have a quiet dinner with her family.

"Any kind of love is good today", my princess said.

I felt her spell taking over me.

I've always had a thing for princesses.

Happy Monday

2009-02-09T22:30:00.000-05:00

My sister sent me this video.

She thought I'd like it & I do.

I saw Coraline this weekend (loved it...so beautifully done & creative) & am now craving stop action videos.

Shooting something like this will teach patience.

Great music too.

2009-02-05T07:30:00.000-05:00

According to the Urban Dictionary...

Fuck me in the ass cold...

...is when, regardless of previous sexual preference, one wishes to be fucked in the ass for no other reason than the warmth it would provide.

It's not yet THAT cold here.

Photo of the Day

2009-02-02T22:00:00.000-05:00

This guy made an art out of peeping at me this morning on my way to catch the train.

So I turned around & took his photo with my cell phone.

What did I have to lose at that point?

Nothing...he was already staring.

He looks sort of sad, doesn't he?

Maybe he could see my blueness too.

Train Story

2009-01-30T20:00:00.000-05:00

I raced to the train just as it was about to leave.

The weight of my day was coming down on me.

No lunch break today...just more deadlines to be met & not enough time to meet them.

The doors of the train snapped shut & then I heard it'

"Praise Jesus"

"I'm Tommy & I'm hungry"

He went into a song & dance about not stealing anymore

About finding the path to righteousness & salvation.

"Got any spare change? Anything will do"

As he came toward me...someone handed him a dollar.

He got to me & I looked away for a sec.

Then he looked right at me & wouldn't look away.

I don't know if I looked kind...or like an easy mark

but because I did nothing for the 2 whole seconds that he looked at me

he felt he had the right to start yelling obscenities my way.

He called me a bitch & a heathen & then moved on to the woman standing next to me.

He called her worse names.

Yeah, that's the way to my generous side.

Now for sure I'd hand over my hard earned cash to this nut.

Brilliant.

Another Day...Another Walk

2009-01-27T22:00:00.006-05:00

So much activity at the WTC site.

See the square building (Deutsche Bank) in the middle?

It's going to cost more to take down (floor by floor)

than it cost to build.

The old next to the new.

My destination for the trip.

I love this store.

I mean look at the place...it just makes me smile.

The color, the freshness...ahhhh, makes me think of spring.

2009-01-24T08:00:00.000-05:00

...& I think the real star of the day

was Sasha Obama

who totally stole the show

in her pink coat & orange scarf.

2009-01-21T08:30:00.000-05:00

I couldn't stand to be inside at work for one more second last Friday afternoon.

But, damn, it was 7 degrees outside without the wind chill.

I bundled up in ohsostylish long underwear under my jeans & sweater(s)

Topped myself off with a hat, coat, scarf & gloves & was off.

The cold air & wind knocked me over & hit me in the face when I finally made it outside.

It felt good for the first few seconds, then I was numb.

I walked down to the ferry terminal where I knew the plane would be.

I saw the comforting sight of the Coast Guard going up the river.

There were gatherers like me wanting to get a glimpse of the plane in the water.

This was as close as I was able to get.

Odd to see an airplane wing sticking up out of the Hudson River.

Beyond the ferry terminal you can see the crane that they eventually used to remove the plane from the river setting up.

This isn't a great representation of the media that was here...but they were starting broadcast for the nightly news.

All the rescuers involved, the fire dept, police, ferry operators, divers, Coast Guard & people riding on the ferries who helped pull passengers out of the river & gave them their coats deserve thanks.

...kinda put my sucky day into perspective.

2009-01-18T10:30:00.002-05:00

"The more I'm with an object -- whether it's a model or a piece of the country -- the more I begin to see what I've been blind to. You start to get what's beneath it. You see deeper within it."

The artist Andrew Wyeth died on Friday.

Wyeth said he painted "basic truths."

"Painting objects that mean a lot to me, that have an emotional feeling, and I have the deepest love for a hill or a tree as I have for a human being, sometimes more,".

My childhood art teacher gave me a huge compliment by saying my watercolors reminded her of his work.

It could have been my ability to sit for 5 Saturdays straight in the same spot in my yard

...painting the same tree...or corner of the yard.

I'd paint blades of grass & tiny veins in leaves.

I used muted colors like he did.

When I finally took a school trip to the

Whitney Museum to actually see his work it blew me away.

My art teacher was nuts...

But she did give me a tremendous love of Andrew Wyeth & for that I am grateful.

Here are some of my favorites:

2009-01-14T09:30:00.000-05:00

So, I have this necklace.

It means a lot to me.

I got it the last time I was in Ireland in a little town in the west called Roundstone.

It’s a pendent with a Celtic design & an amethyst.

As I was riding up in the elevator in my parking garage the other day I was sort of twisting it around under my coat & scarf because the clasp had fallen to the front when it should be in the back (you know what I mean).

It wasn’t twisting smoothly because of all the layers that were on top of it.

So what did I do?

I kept pulling it until it bruised my neck & eventually broke (because I'm like that).

The chain slid off down my top & the pendant dropped to the floor somewhere.

I looked for it in a panic.

I crawled on the floor & eventually found it just as the elevator doors were opening onto my floor.

The pendent was just about to fall down the space between the door & the elevator shaft.

I grabbed it & started to cry.

Damn it, I wasn’t scheduled for a breakdown today.

SNL

2009-01-12T23:00:00.002-05:00

SNL did a funny skit involving (legally blind) NY governor David Patterson.

I thought it was silly fun.

Some people thought it was offensive to blind people.

I think it's an incredible achievement that Governor Patterson is running the state of NY (he was appointed after Elliot Spitzer had sex with a high priced prostitute from NJ, remember?)

& I think the antics of SNL shouldn't be seen as taking anything away from that.

So silly.

2009-01-09T19:30:00.000-05:00

2009-01-05T11:30:00.002-05:00

Happy New Year

2009-01-02T21:00:00.000-05:00

If you want to see some of the most extravagant Christmas light displays, you should make the trip to the Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Many of the Christmas light displays are done professionally, & they tend to evolve each year in an unspoken effort to outdo each other.

My mother grew up in this still very Italian section of Brooklyn.

I got to the the lights with her this year.

Many families collect money for charity when the crowds come to see the lights.

This house belongs to Alfred Polizzotto (1145 84th St.), who had a mechanical designer rig 29-foot-high toy soldiers to stand guard, waving their arms. Polizzotto also has 2,000-pound horses rearing and galloping, & a quartet of dancers almost 10 feet tall pirouetting in a massive ode to "The Nutcracker Suite." Polizzotto, a real estate lawyer & cancer survivor who got seriously involved in the Christmas madness to thank God for his illness' remission, estimates that the block draws 150,000 visitors a year (it's that much of a spectacle...I had to look it up).

I don't know why...but between all the Christmas lights & statues of Mary there seem to be lots of fountains...this one came complete with Koi fish & a closed circuit TV camera so that no one 'bothered' the fish.

This really has to be seen to believed.

Belated Holiday Wishes

2008-12-28T13:30:00.001-05:00

Merry Christmas.

Peace.

Love.

Compassion.

Happiness.

Sweetness.

Grace.

Happy hanukkah.

Peace (it bears repeating).

2008-12-18T07:30:00.000-05:00

Want to know WHY I fell off the treadmill?

You might have done the same thing, you know.

Would you laugh?

I would.

First of all…

I used to think that

cardio cinema was the coolest idea.

They play a movie & you workout while watching in the dark.

So, I watched Big yesterday on the treadmill.

When I tried to do the right thing & clean off the machine when I was done

Here’s the part where I hit the switch on the right

Thinking it was the off switch

But it turned out to be the (stay)on switch

Getting off was no problem

When I tried to get back on & clean off the machine

The problem was that the damn thing was still moving

I went down like a rock

My left elbow skidded nicely along the moving treadmill

& I landed on the gym floor with a splat.

It was only then that I was thinking that the darkness might be a good thing after all.