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31 Days of Oscar - TCM

2012-01-15T12:32:00.012-05:00

Fire Island Sunset

2012-01-02T18:45:00.001-05:00

Sunset on Fire Island at Smith Point, Long Island, New York,

New Year's weekend, 2011, by Donald L. Brooks

Happy New Year!

2011-12-31T03:25:00.002-05:00

Ring in the New

2011-12-30T00:04:00.003-05:00

Christmas 2011

2011-12-25T01:13:00.000-05:00

Journey

2011-12-23T04:46:00.002-05:00

December Rose

2011-12-03T20:15:00.000-05:00

December Rose photograph by Donald L Brooks

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, International Space Station

2011-11-25T19:58:00.002-05:00

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS
from Michael König on Vimeo.

November Refuge

2011-11-16T01:04:00.001-05:00

November at the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge

photograph by Donald L. Brooks

October Butterfly

2011-10-09T01:43:00.003-04:00

Ten Years

2011-09-07T05:25:00.003-04:00

Run!

2011-08-19T13:10:00.000-04:00

The Crevasse

2011-08-01T06:27:00.000-04:00

Bed Intruder

2011-07-16T04:56:00.001-04:00

Independence

2011-07-02T02:29:00.003-04:00

Solstice

2011-06-21T00:56:00.000-04:00

Father's Day

2011-06-19T00:23:00.004-04:00

Windmills of Your Mind

2011-06-12T16:44:00.000-04:00

Off-Off-Broadway

2011-06-09T09:10:00.002-04:00

http://donaldlbrooks.com/index.html

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D-Day 6/6/44

2011-06-06T07:33:00.002-04:00

June Bloom

2011-06-05T13:24:00.003-04:00

SPIN

2011-06-03T08:33:00.002-04:00

Memorial Day

2011-05-30T10:37:00.000-04:00

It's May...!

2011-05-20T03:04:00.000-04:00

My backyard this week in the month of May.

Mother's Day

2011-05-08T12:01:00.000-04:00

Doggone It!

2011-05-08T11:54:00.001-04:00

Pendulum Waves

2011-05-06T02:28:00.002-04:00

7 Billion

2011-04-25T23:17:00.001-04:00

Easter Sunday

2011-04-24T09:40:00.002-04:00

The Resurrectionof Christ by Peter Paul Rubens 1611

Good Friday

2011-04-22T00:56:00.000-04:00

Holy Thursday

2011-04-21T11:22:00.000-04:00

Yo-Yo Ma and Lil' Buck

2011-04-19T03:58:00.003-04:00

Elizabeth

2011-03-24T03:56:00.000-04:00

The New York Times obituary, HERE.

Supermoon

2011-03-20T01:26:00.001-04:00

St Patrick

2011-03-17T03:51:00.000-04:00

Madame Butterfly

2011-03-14T02:43:00.003-04:00

911 Helicopter

2011-03-08T08:23:00.002-05:00

Roadkill

2011-03-05T01:56:00.000-05:00

Jane Russell

2011-03-02T18:19:00.001-05:00

Full Moon in February

2011-02-18T04:10:00.000-05:00

You're A Jerk

2011-02-10T00:45:00.001-05:00

Winter Sunset

2011-02-02T18:39:00.002-05:00

Hammered

2011-01-27T21:25:00.000-05:00

Ruben, Ruben....!

2011-01-24T07:07:00.005-05:00

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Ruben on Fire Island for one last day of freedom!

Fifty years ago today ...

2011-01-20T07:53:00.004-05:00

Ellen Stewart Mass of Christian Burial St. Patrick's Cathedral January 17, 2011

2011-01-18T16:05:00.001-05:00

All Creatures of Our God and King

2011-01-18T14:28:00.003-05:00

"All Creatures of Our God and King" Entrance and Processional at Mass of Christian Burial for Ellen Stewart, St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC, January 17, 2011, photograph by Donald L Brooks

Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91

2011-01-15T03:50:00.001-05:00

The New York Times article, HERE.

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Girl Scout Cookies

2011-01-11T19:52:00.000-05:00

Happy New Year!

2010-12-31T21:14:00.002-05:00

My Icycles

2010-12-29T19:16:00.000-05:00

Snow and Stars

2010-12-26T01:20:00.001-05:00

Pitch black in night

Glitter glimmers on the snow

A thousand prisms above below

Refracting in unearthly glow.
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Christmas

2010-12-24T15:45:00.000-05:00

Spiderman Accident on Broadway

2010-12-21T19:12:00.000-05:00

The Eclipse

2010-12-21T09:27:00.000-05:00

Lunar Eclipse Falls on Winter Solstice for First Time in Centuries

2010-12-19T17:20:00.005-05:00

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Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory inspected a list of eclipses going back 2000 years for NASA. "Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is 1638 DEC 21," Chester said, according to NASA. "Fortunately we won't have to wait 372 years for the next one ... that will be on 2094 DEC 21." Article, HERE.

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270 Movies From This Year in 6 Minutes

2010-12-14T22:17:00.000-05:00

Books and Whiskey

2010-12-13T21:50:00.000-05:00

Forbidden Images

2010-12-08T01:55:00.001-05:00

I Drink Alone

2010-12-06T03:05:00.000-05:00

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

2010-11-29T00:23:00.003-05:00

Thanksgiving

2010-11-25T02:58:00.000-05:00

Blue Moon 2010

2010-11-23T02:07:00.001-05:00

So You Think You Can Dance

2010-11-16T09:40:00.004-05:00

A Rosebud in November

2010-11-14T00:47:00.000-05:00

A November Sunset on Fire Island

2010-11-14T00:40:00.000-05:00

A November Sunset on Fire Island, Smith Point, Long Island, New York

Autumn on Lake Arthur

2010-11-12T18:20:00.000-05:00

Lake Arthur, Long Island, New York, November 1, 2010

Times Square 1970

2010-11-12T13:25:00.008-05:00

Donald in Times Square Photo Booth 1970

You sport a very nice body that surely will get you places, as long as they aren't looking for someone to talk to. Everyone flocks to you and wants you in their bed, too bad you can't figure out how to hold a fork.

Whoring on Times Square in New York City -- back against the wall watching the zipper sign on the Times Building -- not looking at anyone. If someone looks, look away. It's important to not take any interest. That macho thing -- “butch” it’s called. Broke? Queers look for guys and will pay to go down on something young and dirty, a cheap Times Square whore!

Comet Hartley 2

2010-11-04T21:31:00.001-04:00

NASA / JPL-Caltech / UMD

This close-up view of Comet Hartley 2 was taken by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft during its flyby of the comet Thursday. It was captured by the spacecraft's medium-resolution instrument.

Article HERE.

All Souls' Day

2010-11-02T18:19:00.000-04:00

The Day of the Dead - All Souls' Day by William Bouguereau

Halloween at Theater for the New City

2010-10-29T13:43:00.000-04:00

For information, HERE.

Prince of the South

2010-10-24T06:37:00.001-04:00

Whip My Hair

2010-10-19T02:39:00.003-04:00

Jackson Pollack meet Willow Smith

Trainspotting

2010-10-14T03:11:00.000-04:00

Clinging to the top of one of the last passenger trains across South Dakota, I wondered if I would survive. Of course, I did, as you are reading this. My father broke my ribs and my mother broke my heart. Why did I run away from home? Why did I risk life and limb? Screaming in the night, the wind streaking, soul abandoned, the chase, the howl, the night with the dogs and then the day, the walk down Main Street into the first jail cell of my life, thanks everyone, I feel free at last and my life is down the toilet.

Joan Sutherland

2010-10-12T19:12:00.002-04:00

Joan Sutherland 1926 - 2010

New York Times obituary, HERE.

Yes, I saw that performance!

Wound Upon a Broken Heart

2010-10-10T04:43:00.001-04:00

Crawling through the shattered glass

Tears comingled with the trash

Wailing, moaning, noon and night

Giving shout in hopeless sight

I bleed a blood that’s not my own

I weep all night to the unknown

You laugh and smile in new good fortune

Remembering not, and so soon?

I live, I breath, I gasp in sorrow,

No pain enough today, tomorrow,

Eros’ arrow, wicked dart!

Wound upon a broken heart!

Train Wreck

2010-10-05T02:22:00.001-04:00

Stairway to Heaven

2010-10-03T19:04:00.002-04:00

Goodbye Tony

2010-09-30T10:38:00.003-04:00

Tony Curtis, Hollywood Leading Man, Dies at 85, The New York Times, HERE.
Clip from his best film, "Some Like It Hot"...

More on moviefone, Tony Curtis Dead at 85: Remembering His Best Movies, HERE.

I Wait

2010-09-27T03:43:00.007-04:00

I Wait

I wait. You are gone, yet you are yet in my heart and I love you.

I wait for that time that you return for a forgotten hair from the barren floor having fled to the next station on the rail of life. Oh, it isn’t that far from here. I wait, that that train may return not reaching its destination. I wait, its tracks disappear upon the horizon, its crossings a step in time upon a journey into nowhere.

I wait, there is no schedule, there is no wail of the distant locomotive. I wait, it shrieks in my mind even from afar, yet so close it shatters the lifeless mementos, now so cherished, left to torment a hope that is dead.

I wait, haplessly hoping fortune smiles upon you and still I wait. I wait. Do not return, bruised and broken, crying once again upon my bloodied shoulder, crying once again the words you cried before...

“I just want to be loved!”

Do you feel it, did you feel it? Does the silent love of one abandoned for another reach the soul of the unforgotten? Unknown to know, there is no light or sound upon the rail, there is but the rail itself as I listen for a single sound pressing my ear upon the ground.

I wait.

~ Donald L. Brooks

Beach Bubbles

2010-09-26T18:21:00.001-04:00

White Knuckles

2010-09-26T17:21:00.001-04:00

Full Moon and Jupiter

2010-09-24T02:52:00.002-04:00

Full Moon and Jupiter, September 23, 2010 photograph by Donald L. Brooks

When You Wish Upon a Star

Writer: Leigh Harline; Lyrics: Ned Washington

When you wish upon a star

Makes no difference who you are

Anything your heart desires

Will come to you

If your heart is in your dream

No request is too extreme

When you wish upon a star

As dreamers do

Fate is kind

She brings to those who love

The sweet fulfillment of

Their secret longing

Like a bolt out of the blue

Fate steps in and sees you through

When you wish upon a star

Your dreams come true

Harvest Moon

2010-09-23T03:12:00.000-04:00

The Full Moon-Lick Observatory

The Harvest Moon is the full moon that occurs nearest to the autumnal equinox. The equinox took place at 11:09 pm yesterday, and the moon will be officially full at this Thursday morning at 5:17am -- this is about as close as you can get! The name "harvest moon" comes from the days before we had electricity. Farmers used the bright light of the full moon around the equinox to continue harvesting their crops.

Pop Ups

2010-09-22T01:43:00.001-04:00

Only...

2010-09-16T12:13:00.002-04:00

Footprints of a Nude Septuagenarian

2010-09-16T03:22:00.000-04:00

2010-09-11T10:22:00.001-04:00

On the Beach

2010-08-30T13:06:00.000-04:00

The Spiderman of Baseball

2010-08-27T09:02:00.003-04:00

Soichiro Amaya, outfielder with the Hiroshima Carp of the Nippon Professional Baseball league, climbs the wal to rob a home run.

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Fishing at Smith Point

2010-08-17T02:16:00.001-04:00

Parkour

2010-08-11T01:30:00.002-04:00

'Tis so appalling...

2010-08-07T02:03:00.002-04:00

'Tis so appalling — it exhilarates

by Emily Dickinson

'Tis so appalling -- it exhilarates —

So over Horror, it half Captivates —

The Soul stares after it, secure —

A Sepulchre, fears frost, no more —

To scan a Ghost, is faint —

But grappling, conquers it —

How easy, Torment, now —

Suspense kept sawing so —

The Truth, is Bald, and Cold —

But that will hold —

If any are not sure —

We show them — prayer —

But we, who know,

Stop hoping, now —

Looking at Death, is Dying —

Just let go the Breath —

And not the pillow at your Cheek

So Slumbereth —

Others, Can wrestle —

Yours, is done --

And so of Woe, bleak dreaded — come,

It sets the Fright at liberty —

And Terror's free —

Gay, Ghastly, Holiday!

August Sunset

2010-08-06T03:16:00.000-04:00

Alphaville

2010-07-31T22:23:00.001-04:00

Ladies of the Silent Screen

2010-07-27T06:00:00.001-04:00

20 Parrot Tricks in 2 Minutes

2010-07-26T04:29:00.001-04:00

Take on Me

2010-07-24T09:04:00.001-04:00

Rats on Cocaine

2010-07-21T10:10:00.000-04:00

Tar Boy

2010-07-18T23:52:00.003-04:00

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