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Fern 1 hours old.

NAUFRAGE

naufrage - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :
NAUFRAGE, French mar. law. When, by the violent agitation of the waves, the impetuosity of the winds, the storm, or the lightning, a vessel is swallowed up, or so shattered that there remain only the pieces, the accident is called naufrage.
2. It differs from echouement, which is, when the vessel, remains whole, but is grounded; or from bris, which is, when it strikes against a rock or a coast; or from sombrer, which is, the sinking of the vessel in the sea, when it is swallowed up, and which may be caused by any accident whatever. _{Pardes. n. 643, Vide Wreck.}

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feedtheanimals

Bene can you save this

Thanksgiving

Sunset West Side Highway

A dragon named Ramona

Solo Tent

Rock Star at rest

Sunday

The After Party

Wednesday is Banya day

Hissing

Read the sign

Dragon Boat

Banya

Cheers

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She was out of this world, that little girl. Not one of these goddamned tramps like I was always latching onto. You could really go places with a kid like that. You'd do anything in the world for her because you knew she'd do anything in the world for you, and you could just naturally go to town.

Showman's on 125th

Coffee shop 125/Park

Maurizio Cattelan on the Pope

Spring

Hi

Me too

I know what I'm talking about

Lunch

Cuban Sandwich

Weekend

elevator

Dinner

Remington

Mom

Fort Tryon Park

Root canal

Eat The Rich

Buying a new phone

1 train at 215 Street

Bye-Bye Bush Bash

The Last Ever Bye-Bye Bush Bash (Shoe Fest '09)
Saturday January 10, 2009, 9:30 PM to 3:00 AM
At the Russian and Turkish Baths, 268 E. 10 Street between 1st and A
Someone had to do it. All night long at the banya $35 (cheap!) Includes steam towels robes shorts slippers food drink entertainment and the chance to say an improper goodbye to the running-dog imperialist swine who have spent the last eight years in some sort of weird millenarian frenzy of greed and hatred, burning down the economy, raping the environment, denying vaccinations to poor children, alienating the whole world, "normalizing" torture, shoveling trillions of taxpayer dollar into the gaping hellmouth of the military-industrial complex, lying to Congress and the press, bombing Afghan weddings, and generally whoring OUR LAND out to the Texas oil industry. I feel like I'm leaving something out...
This is going to be a hell of a night, complete with illegal immigrants, gymnasts, atheists, gays, jews, blacks, weirdos, Hungarians, perverts, and preppies gone wrong (shudder.) Kept the price as low as I can - please please if you can use one of those big ugly PayPal buttons to pre-pay. I need to a)pay for the rental of the space b)buy vodka and c)build a "Throw-a-Shoe" booth. And for sanity's sake the Banya Boyz (hi Jack & Dima!) are capping the attendance... so get yer tickets now!
Seriously how can we bring the love (Obama!) if we don't cast out the hate? I've been waiting soooo long for this. Y'all come.

Bush Bash Tickets $35/pp

1 person $35.00 2 people $70.00 3 people $105.00

Looks like Christmas Morning

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Pere Ubu, "Waiting for Mary"

I'll give you "Si Se Puede!" Number 17 in a long list of the ways Hal Wilner subtly influenced my life. During the years I knew him through Vicki I never heard that he had been music coordinator for "Michelob Presents, Night Music" so I never got to tell him how the show kept me sane (or, at least, focused) during a weird unhappy 9 months waiting tables in a Bennigan's down by the highway in the great steaming zoning accident that is Macon, GA. Not that we had a TV, but the show came on at 3:00 AM after the last bars closed. By this point we had tired of setting off the fire alarms down at the Mariott in the hopes we could see Baptist Youth Conventioneers in their pajamas. I think I wanted David Sanborn's job. Anyhow I needed to get out so I put a Bauhaus sticker on the bumper of the Chevette and set out for Cambridge and, eventually, New York.
A few years on Hal and Vicki joined us for a picnic in Prospect Park and then a small dinner party on the tiny terrace of an old lesbian couple Burnley knew who were celebrating their fortieth anniversary. Hal's voice was shot and he spoke in a whisper anyhow so I had to lean all the way in to his 'fro to hear him. He had a tape recorder where he had recorded Warner Brothers cartoons off the TV. Later this became the Carl Stalling project. He kept saying "listen to the music" which was funny because a) it was cartoons and b) he and Vicki had passed out on the grass and slept through the whole opera. Of course the above is impossible - no way I could have been in Georgia in '88 - but that's the way I remember it. Anyhow, here's your Christmas wish: That you might do one thing in the next year with the fearless intensity Dave Thomas brought to singing over the credits of a syndicated late-night show twenty years ago...

longest night

Big bronze...

...St. George vs. a perfectly inoffensive dragon in a construction site near U.N.

America: We Love Having You Here

Zoe Strauss is a genius Bruce Silverstein Gallery on 24th Street

Pipilotti Rist at Moma

At the hat shop on Myrtle - Obamamerica

Happy Thanks_Alej_Birthday

Warhol Polaroids at Kasmin

lovely lovely lovely and only $11,000.00 each!

New Haircut for Boris

Jack Ashkenazie knows no fear

Eric Fischl Sculpture at Mary Boone

Jerry without honor in his own land

Marta Drew

Marta Drawing

Jiggers Turner Sings, Dances, and Entertains

Natasha Zubova curates Monday nights at Cafe Anyway

Pickle?

Kate and Dionne

He Joung

Geoff Rawling actually has a secretary

and a vast labor force turning out forged old masters in his Rockaway, Queens atelier

Youssou N'Dour's Great African Ball

1 Train to Heaven

Evening Song

Full moon rising on the waters of my heart,
Lakes and moon and fires,
Cloine tires,
Holding her lips apart.

Promises of slumber leaving shore to charm the moon,
Miracle made vesper-keeps,
Cloine sleeps,
And I'll be sleeping soon.

Cloine, curled like the sleepy waters where the moonwaves start,
Radiant, resplendently she gleams,
Cloine dreams,
Lips pressed against my heart.

-Jean Toomer

Juliane & Little D

Cafe Schmoll

Maziar and Ben somewhere in New Jersey.

Happy Birthday Marta

Momofuku Noodle Bar:
beau soleil oysters
taylor bay scallops
hamachi
some turkey thing
steamed buns - pork
Wölffer Estate Selection Chardonnay
butternuts "porkslap" pale ale
unfiltered sake

and a whole lot of love

Somali Pirates Rock

"We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us
like a coast guard."

Heaven help us

Sunday in Brooklyn - Los Santos vs the Buddha pt 1

Heavy Duty

Padded panties for that big booty look 171 & Broadway

Sky Balls

At the Brooklyn Flea

Good Day, Sunshine

Julian and Kate

But I have always loved my baby sister

Naked Election Night Soda Bar Spencer Tunick

In the Election Booth

Si, Se Puede

Kate Perry!

JCRC Halloween

Q: What are you supposed to be? A: I just don't know any more

Kiki Smith and John Baldessari Election Buttons

Aaron sleepy

9 hours til showtime

still need to shoot the film

Tent lights Fire Island

Day's End Boca del Cielo

Sunset over the Javits

Avenue M

Button

Flip-floss, fatigues,
And a fuzzy.
The roast is resting.
Walking to buy ice.

Purple Sky

sunset. Going to get Clemens at JFK

Di Fara's Pizza with Matt Septimus

Papa

Jack and Chris on the deck

Cheers

More Maziar

Maziar in tie die

Serra at MOMA

Lee Bontecou at MOMA

Jiggers Turner and the fanboys

Nantucket Yacht Club

Basement of the Venetian

hanging with the teamstes

The Golden Nugget

Warning

Synergy Logistics Warehouse Ceiling

Palm tree and warehouse

Jelly ceiling

107 degrees fahrenheit

inside

Shoe show

Shoes

Lap vegas convention center for the world's largest shoe expo

Jiggers' 40th Birthday

John & Kate & Nickey & Jiggers

Potter mania

Aaron's girls made the paper

JC & KP

bottles on tenth street

Black Sky

A homeless artist used to live at Project Renewal nobody can remember his name but I like his painting

TESSA

FW: Tessa

Seriously... I have an interview

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New Year's 2007

Merry Christmas Y'all

Malice in Underland - Halloween at the RAA

Malice Video on youTube, in case you want to link it & stuff

Flaming Pumpkin

Here's what happens when Charles comes over to dinner. No... I mean... here's what happens when you buy the cheap tequila. No... I mean... here's what happens when you go to Fort Greene park in the middle of the night and pour kerosene into a Jack-O-Lantern. The YouTube video quality is sort of, well, you can see it looking marginally prettier here

How It Works

Watch out enemies of freedom

Citizen of orangutanistan

www.orangutanistan.com

the short-lived banana republic of orangutanistan

www.orangutanistan.com

I Love Being Four

Nice Icing

Go Daddy

At Tessa's Fourth Birtdday

Much Better

Summer in Brooklyn

Junior Turns 31 on Friday

In memory of Joel

Thanks for all the freedom, Uncle Bucky

Glass bead

Roof garden

Have you seen this suburban housewife?

Bill and Marisol write in to ask if anyone else has a picture of this fine lady in her fine wig. If you do, let us know via the contact form ( link at right or here). It looks like Mr. Wilking has one of her as well as one of the East Village Sea Monster Marching Band here

Fig 1

U.S. Patent : # 6,523,295

rain

Hey Doug!

How big is that cultural chasm between the place you live now and the place you came from?

Doug, you see...

... is attending his 25th high school reunion in Michigan. In a Mini Cooper with New York Plates and a Kerry bumper sticker. Strangely enough he's feeling a little tense.

Traci, from Yonkers, sends this in:

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Glory to God, who has ordained the triumph of those who obey him and the humiliation of those who resist him!

Paraphernalia

Post-Parade

Kathy from Cadiz

In all Arab music, dance, song or elegy, the arrival of duende is greeted with vigorous cries of ‘Allah! Allah!’ so close to the ‘Olé!’ of the bullfight, and who knows whether they are not the same? And in all the songs of Southern Spain, the appearance of the duende is followed by sincere cries of: ‘Viva Dios!’ deep, human, tender cries of communication with God through the five senses, thanks to the duende that shakes the voice and body of the dancer, a real, poetic escape from this world, as pure as that achieved by that rarest poet of the seventeenth century Pedro Soto de Rojas with his seven gardens, or John Climacus with his trembling ladder of tears. -Lorca, "Theory and Play of the Duende"

Ruby's bar after the Mermaid Parade

Monkey Boy

And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. Daniel 8:9

mermaid parade

Parachute Drop

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. President Eisenhower - Farewell Address to the Nation, Jan.17, 1961:

Mermaid Holding Pen

Mermaid Parade

jigois

Rubys after the Mermaid Parade

orange

Mermaid Parade

Ready

mermaid parade

MoreMaid

Brown and Agile Child Brown and agile child, the sun which forms the fruit And ripens the grain and twists the seaweed Has made your happy body and your luminous eyes And given your mouth the smile of water. A black and anguished sun is entangled in the twigs Of your black mane when you hold out your arms. You play in the sun as in a tidal river And it leaves two dark pools in your eyes. Brown and agile child, nothing draws me to you, Everything pulls away from me here in the noon. You are the delirious youth of bee, The drunkedness of the wave, the power of the heat. My somber heart seeks you always I love your happy body, your rich, soft voice. Dusky butterfly, sweet and sure Like the wheatfiled, the sun, the poppy, and the water. Pablo Neruda (at Ruby's after the Mermaid Parade)

no words

mermaid parading

Dubbya and Rummy

"They will welcome us as liberators with open arms"

Our Mascot

Mermaid Parade 2005 East Village Sea Monster Marching Band Official Mascot

pink

Mermaid Parade

God Bless America

Mermaid Parade

Jolibe

Mermaid Parade

7:25

mermaid parade

Six

Busboy

John

Kathy

Mermaid Parade

Ooooh

A pink thong, a glass of body paint, and a pirate hat. I feel ... complete.

Morning

Martha at Antibalas

Dinner with Albert

KP

Leo

Gibson's Massive Nipples

Doug

Albert

Japanese Cuisine in New York - 21 Recommended Restaurants

FYI: "Daiginjo" sake is brewed from rice polished so no more than 50 percent of the grain remains. Only the white opaque starchy cores are used for brewing. This produces an exquisite, refreshing taste. Very delicate and skilled techniques are required to insure that the grains of rice do not crack.

Disruptive Carnations

Disruptive Pattern Material

DPM: Disruptive Pattern Material; An Encyclopedia of Camouflage 'I well remember at the beginning of the war,’ Gertrude Stein wrote in 1938, ‘being with Picasso on the Boulevard Raspail when the first camouflaged truck passed. It was at night, we had heard of camouflage but we had not seen it and Picasso, amazed, looked at it and then cried out, yes it is we who made it, that is Cubism.’'
Quartermaster General on modern Camo

Papa

Off the bus

F train

Chinatown bus

Mouseketeers, circa 1955

Sleepy