Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Events from July & August, Part 5
People confronting an anti-gay protester, Jersey City Pride festival
Jersey City Pride festival
Bryant Park before a film
In Washington Square Park (this was the first time I'd been in the park since the renovations, which are still underway)
Art on the High Line, Chelsea
Wildflowers, on the High Line
The Empire State Building, from the High Line
Artwork on the High Line
Events from July & August, Part 4
At Printed Matter, Chelsea, for the book launch of Tan Lin's Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (Wesleyan, 2010), and its related texts
Tan Lin and a colleague, at Printed Matter
Tan Lin's mother, Gordon Tapper (center), and a friend, at the Printed Matter book launch
Writers David Ebershoff and Gary Shteyngart at a midday reading, Bryant Park
Paulus Hook landing commemoration, Jersey City
Jersey City Puerto Rican Day festival
Jersey City Puerto Rican Day festival
Events from July, Part 3 (Harlem Book Fair)
Artist signing his work
Women being interviewed
"Black Nobel" at the Harlem Book Fair
Author Freddie Simmons
Bookstalls
Women checking out the music at the Sexy Soul Oldies booth
A patron checking out books
New York Black Librarian Caucus's booth, Harlem Book Fair
Events from July, Part 2
Graffiti show at the Benrimon Gallery, Chelsea
One of the pieces at the Benrimon Gallery
Artist DIL (in the black cap), event organizers and friends at the Benrimon Gallery
One of the large painting-sculptures at the Benrimon Gallery
Grafitti artists posing, Benrimon Gallery
Two attendees offering me "keys to the City"
More of the artwork at Benrimon Gallery
More artwork at the Benrimon Gallery
Graffiti show, Soapstone Gallery
Artwork at the Soapstone Gallery
Artwork at the Soapstone Gallery
Artlovers at the Soapstone Gallery
Artist Fumero, at the Soapstone Gallery
Artlovers at the Soapstone Gallery
It's Spelled M-O-S-Q-U-E
I read somewhere on the Internets that getting a glimmer of how people on Facebook feel about the mosque that may be built by Ground Zero is an amusing way to pass some time. Simply type "mosk" into the search box on Openbook and read the results that come up. So I did. I also searched for variations on that them. That is, the misspelling of mosque. Let's look at the results, shall we? You're probably going to have to click on the images to make them bigger. Blogger has it's limits and apparently making screen captures from Openbook able to be read is one of them.
You tell 'em, Brad! Good points bringing up heroshema and auswitz, too! Hard to argue with that (but that's only because I don't know what the heck he's talking about). Next up is Landis who says: "Ground zero might be at risk cuz they want to build a mossque thats a memerial for those who died if u care about those ppl who lost there lives respost this".
She's awfully confused in several aspects. Spelling and punctuation being only a couple of them. How is Ground Zero at risk if the mossque gets built? Does that mean that the World Trade Center buildings will magically reappear? I don't think that's what it means. Then again, I don't know that she is really all that sure what it means either. (The scary part was that it sounded like she was actually trying to explain it to people) But maybe Nancy knows what she means. Let's see...hmm...it reads: "jonmanncnn jonathan mann developing story from irak war their legancy is islam and the builing of moske on ground zero. Anna coren reporting".
Then again, maybe she doesn't. Really? We've been in Iraq for years now. You still don't know how to spell it? And what in the world is a legancy? Never mind. I don't want to know. Kind of in the same way I don't want to know much more about Peggy's point of view, expressed as "their building a mosk for arabs over ground 0...ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!!?!?"
I'd like to know why she had all of the time for the abundance of exclamation points and question marks, but couldn't find the time to type out the word zero. I wonder if she would express the same disbelief if someone told her that it's they're, mosque and Arabs. Perhaps. Actually, I'm guessing she would. But she's not alone in thinking that the mosque would go right on top of Ground Zero. Russ thinks the same thing and says, "I vote to kick our current president out of office solely on the basis of him wanting to put a moske right where the twin towers used to be.! I mean... WHAT AN IGNORAMIS!!!"
Yes. What an ignoramus, indeed. Speaking of those who might be an ignoramus, Stephen enlightens all of us with this nugget of knowledge: "Oh, you Angelenos with your Emmys and your Glees, what about the MOSK?"
Typing that out made my head hurt. I'm going to look into who this alkida person is. Sounds like one of Superman's enemies. Alkida from the planet Mossk. Keep your eye out for 'em. And keep your eye out for these folks, too. They're clearly not well.