The Things You Do on Your Holidays

The beforeThe interim
The finished product


Anyway..........
am in the middle of two weeks holiday, the first weeks seems to have disappeared already, Christmas demanded attention as usual, would of been happy to of sat the whole thing out as I was so busy workwise in the preceding weeks that I just wanted to stay at home and have a bit of toast but was asked to to a dinner on Christmas night and felt compelled by convention to attend and so I did. It was indeed a jovial evening where traditional Anglo fare was served and various alcoholic bevvies were offered, I stuck with the Aussie red all night, it was a cheeky drop I must say, but I held my own till the end, in good Aussie style. So now Hogmanay's on it's way, I think I'll have to get out there amongst it with the other punters somewhere............

Over on the West Side

Some trivia, this is the pier that had the Titanic crossed the Atlantic, it would of docked at

Some other piers bit the dust

Apartment building with some nice views

Tractor in the Sun

Too Sad

Because I heard the Internet Needs Another Post of The Huckabee Family

Meme

Another meme thing is quite popular at the mo.....

1. When you were born, how much did you weigh?
Was born at 4 in the afternoon and weighed over 8lb

2. What's you're sugar poison?
probably chocolate

3. If you had to choose between meat and cheese for the rest of your life, which would you choose? Then be specific.
I'd be a cheese man, goat and sheep, fetas and manchego

4. What, in your opinion, is the worst song ever?
That is a tough one, I will happily sign along to any old ditty, but there are a lot of songs about at the moment signing praise to deities of some dualistic theology that I have had just about enough of!

5. Who was your favorite teacher growing up and why?
It's all forgotten about, thankfully

6. What personal activity, when performed in public, bothers you the most?
I'm a pretty tolerant fellow

7. Ok, there's a $50 bill lying on the ground. You pick it up. Dumbfounded by your incredible luck, what do you selfishly purchase?
some glossy book from amazon.com

8. Do you have a recurring nightmare? If so, explain.
I don't

9. Name one place on Earth you've never been, but vow to visit at least once.
Barcelona

10. You notice that question #9 wasn't really a question. You feel smart for catching such a small detail. What else can you do really well that reminds you how smart you are?
Hmmmmmmmmmm?
Well, I think I am quite perceptive!

Bridge Traffic

Traffic on the Queensboro bridge was rather thick today, so I took some photos

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Had been to some discount warehouse in Queens, the view from the car park is quite nice.

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud, The Painter's Etchings , now showing at MoMA.
MoMA's Online exhibition here.
Review here,
nytimes article here,
UrbanEye video report of the opening party here.

(self portrait)

(self portrait)

There are some portraits of Leigh Bowery

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Other Lucian Freuds on display in New York
from the Met's permanent collection, a portrait of Leigh Bowery

Central Park, Today

And some seasonal decorations at the Time Warner Centre

More Smoke

Am not obsessed with such events but......
Today there was a very, very loud blast, then lots of smoke, fire trucks duly came and blocked off the street

The fireman watched from afar, (top of the yellow building on the left)

closer view.

Later a Con Edison truck arrived, I guess it must of been one of those steam blasts?

Snow on a Thursday

East River, Today

There's comfort in melancholy
When there's no need to explain
It's just as natural as the weather
In this moody sky today

(from Joni Mitchell's Hejira )

Today was just like that.

Ship

Williamsburg Bridge

Queensboro Bridge

The burgeoning Queens skyline

And completely unrelated, a very phallic looking Christmas decoration on the Upper East Side, shooting star

A Walk on a Sunday

Down the Street.....

Over to the west side, the new Apple Store in the meatpacking district

Some construction over the high line

Some seasonal decoration

Jersey

People queuing at the Mangnolia Bakery, why people queue to buy products made with bleached and bromated flour, refined cane sugar, or perhaps even that American classic, high fructose corn syrup, I have no idea.

Shop window in Chelsea