July 25, 2005
This entry was supposed to be posted last week. I did not post it last week because I have an excuse. A most grand excuse. One that would surely incite the reaction, "Oh, that explains it," and then you would understand completely.
Fortunately, I did not miss the power outage l... read moreast week. Nay, [i]three[/i] power outages here in Denver. These California imitations are courtesy of the boiling sky of last week...breaking records from the 1800's. I think it was 5 consecutive 100-106 degree days (in the midst of 20 straight 90+ degree days), thus melting the mountains and leaving the city with a sticky view of Utah. Ah, well. The nighttime neighborhood never looked better in such blackness. Electricity is an obnoxious guest sometimes. With every passing vehicle (when I was 'cooling down' in the night heat) I did my most subtle zombie, hoping to inspire mass zombie invasion panic. I've got to work on it a smidge.
PS.- I was off on another undisclosed adventure this past weekend. That sort of tied me up.
Okay...a few long overdue NYC pics:
(drag...I saved the images as bitmaps...they're much smaller than I anticipated)
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What if all the billboards were paintings? Or, at least, separate scenes in a Calvin & Hobbes comic strip. No no, simply too good of offerings for garish Times Square. (though some pictured here were tolerable)
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Does it look like its pointing at something to you, too?
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Have you ever seen a frog so big?
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Ground Zero had a banner signing for London two days after the bombing.
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I signed it.
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1. A small, blurry molecule floating near One New York Plaza
2. Gum
3. The man who owns my camera
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Lovely wildlife in NYC.
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The people are nice, too. A little strange, but it might just be my imagination.
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Even more reflectier in person.
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So I happened to plop on a bench with a couple of Central Park birdwatchers. The circled area is the nest of Pale Male, a resident red tail hawk since 1994, with a vast white belly. 23 offspring now occupy the park. Hey, buddy, I only asked for the time, not for an extensive local avian history. Some people.
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Instead of surveillance cameras, NYC employs vicious, flesh-eating pygmy attack pigeons for the red light runners.
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It's just a flesh wound.
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Alan Tudyk (was awesome)
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David Hyde Pierce (is totally short)
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My friends at the Stage Deli that night. I left the dark green "pickle" as an unspoken sign to the waitress...that dark green "pickles" taste like heck and back. His pickle buddy was effing scrumptious, however.
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R.I.P. temporary beard
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"Goodbyyyye my Coney Island baaaaabe!"
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Yarrr! 'Tis the finest pirate ship kite I laid me salt-pricked peepers 'pon.
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No coaster is safe with the Daddy in town. (this one was pretty darn good, too)
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Much of the rest of the amusement parks (yes, they had a couple), however, were creepy husks of extinct fun. It was kind of cool, actually.
LATER THAT DAY...
I proceeded to miss my flight. Yay airport stress!
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