We'll bid goodbye to the year with a small bit of text lifted from Fowler’s Modern English Usage courtesy of the Confused of Calcutta blog:
"The colloquial form “quite all right” is an apparent PLEONASM, quite and all being identical in sense; “quite right” is all right, and “all right” is quite right, but “quite all right” is all quite wrong, unless indeed all right is here used in its sense of adequate but no more, and quite is added for reassurance."
In either case, I think it's all going to be quite all right since we all need a bit of reassurance wherever and whenever we can get it. Looking forward to more surprises in 2009. Smile.
December 31, 2008
Paul's Toothbrush Collection
December 30, 2008
Horns Prohibited
Actually this reminds me of all those New Year's Eve horns that appear in the Times Square area. If you happen to be stalking around my neighborhood on Wednesday night, please cool it with the horns this year.
December 24, 2008
Subway Man and the City
New York City looms in the background. You can see the United Nations, the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building if you look hard.
Nothing Illegal
December 23, 2008
December 22, 2008
Christmas Chocolate
Labels:
Chocolate,
Leonidas,
Madison Avenue,
Santa Claus
December 20, 2008
Presidential Portrait
This one guy stood out because he was making tiny clay portraits (sculptures) and they were very lifelike. I watched him make one and then decided to get one of my own. I sat in a little chair on the street while the crowds walked by and he moved the clay around for 20 minutes. And then miraculously he was done. He sprayed and mounted his work of art and I was on my way home.
Unlimited Nights and Weekends
December 19, 2008
Anne Hathaway's Graffiti Truck
I swear I saw Anne Hathaway get out of this bright red truck while making a Christmas delivery in Queens. It's no surprise that she had this song by Martha and the Muffins blaring out the open windows. The coolest thing was that she was singing along, "...I know it's out of fashion/And a trifle uncool/But I can't help it/I'm a romantic fool..." Go Anne!
Labels:
Anne Hathaway,
Echo Beach,
Graffiti Truck
December 18, 2008
December 17, 2008
Little Mitten meet Little Glove
1. Found: One lost glove in 57th Street Subway station
2. Found: One lost mitten in front of Carnegie Hall
Labels:
Carnegie Hall,
Glove,
Mitten,
Subway
December 16, 2008
Last Stand for Newsstand
Cemusa, a Spanish company, has a $1 Billion "street furniture" contract to replace all of the 330 newsstands, 3,500 bus stop shelters and 20 public toilets.
This photographer documented most of the newsstands in the city as part of her NYC Newsstand Project.
Labels:
57th Street,
Newspaper,
Newsstand
December 15, 2008
Ears Like Coke Bottles
According to One Tribe Organics: "Stretching is not an exact science and should not be taken lightly. There is never any guarantee that your ears will shrink back up. If you are going to stretch, please make sure that you will be comfortable at that size as an old wrinkly person, and with having your children and grandchildren ask you why you have huge holes in your ears. "
Labels:
Coca-Cola,
Piercings,
Times Square
The Phone is Tapped
Labels:
57th Street,
Broadway,
Telephone
December 14, 2008
December 12, 2008
Marisa Tomei's Illegally Parked Graffiti Truck
I know she doesn't own a truck like this, but it would be fun if Marisa Tomei drove this around New York City. Philip Seymour Hoffman could ride shotgun. They were both in the movie, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
Blankets at Barneys
December 11, 2008
Seven Pounds Screening with Will Smith
Labels:
Rosario Dawson,
Seven Pounds,
Will Smith
December 10, 2008
The Central Park Zoo
No trip to New York City is complete without a trip to the Zoo, located in lovely Central Park. Since 1908, Central Park has appeared in over 240 feature films, making it the most filmed public park in the world.
Pictured above is the Arsenal decked out with green lights for Christmas. The Arsenal is the second oldest building in Central Park and was build between 1847 and 1851. It was designed by Architect Martin E. Thompson as a munitions depot for New York State’s National Guard and as a strategic position to deploy troops to the city, or to either shoreline. Over the years it has been used as a police precinct, a museum (the precursor to the American Museum of Natural History), a weather bureau and an art gallery. Today it is the office of the Parks Commissioner. It's located right in the middle of the Zoo.
December 9, 2008
5:15PM Graffiti Truck - 3
10AM Graffiti Truck - 2
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