Supermoon

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St Patrick

Madame Butterfly

911 Helicopter

Roadkill

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Jane Russell

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Full Moon in February

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You're A Jerk

Winter Sunset

Hammered

Ruben, Ruben....!

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Ruben on Fire Island for one last day of freedom!

Fifty years ago today ...

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

All Creatures of Our God and King

"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

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The New York Times article, HERE.

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Girl Scout Cookies

Happy New Year!

My Icycles

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Snow and Stars

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Pitch black in night

Glitter glimmers on the snow

A thousand prisms above below

Refracting in unearthly glow.
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Christmas

Spiderman Accident on Broadway

The Eclipse

Lunar Eclipse Falls on Winter Solstice for First Time in Centuries

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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

Books and Whiskey

Forbidden Images

I Drink Alone

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

Thanksgiving

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Blue Moon 2010

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So You Think You Can Dance

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A Rosebud in November

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A November Sunset on Fire Island

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

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Autumn on Lake Arthur

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

Times Square 1970

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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.

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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!

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Comet Hartley 2

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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

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

Halloween at Theater for the New City

For information, HERE.

Prince of the South

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Whip My Hair

Jackson Pollack meet Willow Smith

Trainspotting

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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.

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Joan Sutherland

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Joan Sutherland 1926 - 2010

New York Times obituary, HERE.

Yes, I saw that performance!

Wound Upon a Broken Heart

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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

Stairway to Heaven

Goodbye Tony

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

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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

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White Knuckles

Full Moon and Jupiter

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

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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

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Harvest Moon

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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.

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Pop Ups

Only...

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Footprints of a Nude Septuagenarian

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On the Beach

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The Spiderman of Baseball

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

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Parkour

'Tis so appalling...

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'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

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Alphaville

Ladies of the Silent Screen

20 Parrot Tricks in 2 Minutes

Take on Me

Rats on Cocaine

Tar Boy

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Yogi on George

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George and I had our differences, but who didn’t?"

— Yogi Berra, on the death of George Steinbrenner.

Stripping Lads

Candy Shop

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Independence Day

Smith Point Sunset

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Jerkin'

Black Tears

Priceless

bp

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Summertime

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Fire at Sea

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Save the Gulf

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Flag Day

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

"Here’s to Jacques-Yves Cousteau." The New York Times, June 11, 2010 on his 100th birthday — Read HERE.

Wildlife Apocalypse

Video of Gulf birds, fish caught in BP oil spill



Wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf of Mexico coast is fast becoming a reality. Pelicans are becoming trapped by the oil and dead birds and dolphins have been washing ashore, coated in the sludge. Government officials estimate that roughly 83 to 182 million litres of oil have leaked into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion

Oil, Oil, Everywhere

 

New York Times Photographs, click HERE.

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Memorial Day

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05.31.10

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On the Beach

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You're a Jerk