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NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn Marches with Pride with NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo & other delightful signs of life!

NYC LGBT Pride March on Sunday, June 26, 2011 © Frank H. Jump

NYC LGBT Pride March 2011 © Frank H. Jump

NYC LGBT Pride March 2011 © Frank H. Jump

NYC LGBT Pride March 2011 © Frank H. Jump

NYC LGBT Pride March 2011 © Frank H. Jump

NYC LGBT Pride March 2011 - Not the best slogan Google but a fun graphic © Frank H. Jump

NYC LGBT Pride March 2011 - Enzo seizing the moment - Carpe diem baby! © Frank H. Jump

My old friend Rollerena @ NYC LGBT Pride March 2011 © Frank H. Jump

NYC Pride 2003

NYC Pride 2003

NYC Pride 2003
© Frank H. Jump

A Series of Vertically Oriented Cylindrical Objects – Happy Earth Day!

Earth Day Campbell's Soup Can
Vintage Schaefer Can
Rubin's Delicatessen
Nails
Sorb-it Can
Earth Day Campbell's Soup Can
© Frank H. Jump

Happy Earth Day!

Vincenzo (my partner in life and love) has the tendency to uncover interesting ephemera while doing demolition on the apartments he renovates. Here are two bits dating back to the early 1960’s- Rubin’s Delicatessen with the GRamercy-3 telephone exchange (Gramercy Park got its name from a corruption of the Dutch “krom mesje” or crooked little knife) and the Schaefer Beer Can, which brings back fond memories of the 1969 World Series and my father watching television. I remember watching the men landing on the Moon and wondering how they had already gotten there to set up cameras.

My first Earth Day – which was THE FIRST EARTH DAY – was in April 1970. I had done a report in fifth grade about the Food of the Future: Soy. I predicted that soy burgers would one day become popular with the American public. I also predicted that the United States would be slow to convert to metric – which was supposed to occur that year. If only my prescience could have extended to future Lotto Numbers…

Read more about Campbell’s Soup’s attempt to be green.

Chicago Tribune

“For here am I floating ’round my tin-can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do”

David Bowie – Space Oddity

Mikva-Tikva and other holy rollers – Marine Park & Flatbush, Brooklyn

Mikva Tikva

Mikva Tikva

Another Holy Roller
© Frank H. Jump

All within a few blocks from one another in Brooklyn are moving vans as prostheletizing vehicles – literally. My Vincenzo has a great contractor’s joke: “The Lord is coming – REPAINT!”

Third Millennium Remodeling, Inc

Other holy rollers