We saw Miss USA on The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum

Believe it or not but today was the first time I visited the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. I have been on the pier, or the next one but that was in 1982, the see The Clash, but that was in a previous life.

Today was Veterans Day and I figured we would go. My tour guide head told me it would either be over crowded with special events or an empty museum because it was a mid-week, non school trip day in November. It was neither. Not to crowded and some extra stuff going on.

Both my kids spontaneously said they had a great time, they wanna make it a Veterans Day Tradition. I am honestly surprised that they said they had such a good time. It was their fist realistic exposure to the consequences of war. They might have even seen me a little upset. Looking at so many machines that were made just to kill people made me think that we have to stop this war stuff. Not just in the abstract, but the reality for me is that in 9 years my kids will be 18 years old. If we keep fighting we are going to run out of volunteers and there will be a draft again. I was not happy.

Anyway we had a strange celebrity sighting . Miss USA, Krsiten Dalton, was promoting Service Nation. We had a fun 15 minutes waiting for her. I told my kids we would recognize her from her crown. My son picked her out of the crowd right away. Who else wears a sash? But look at those shoes. Those are shoes!

A Picture of the Sun at 3PM.

This is the afternoon sun from the 9th Street Playground in Prospect Park on November 10. Each picture is taken with a different setting on my Kodak EasyShare C913. I am not really sure what the difference is between Backlight, Hight ISO, Sunset, Night Landscape and Night Portrait. But here they are in an unknown order

I wanted an easy run, so I took the camera.

It is not always pretty.




I did not have to go far to find something worthy of a photo. Around the corner from my house there is a small parking lot. The sidewalk in front of it is usually pretty dirty. Maybe because nobody "lives" behind that 30 foot stretch of sidewalk, but probably because nobody sweeps it. There are two giant planters on either side of the entrance to the small parking lot.




Here is a closer look at one of the planters. (notice the abundant litter). But a fish!There is a fish on it.

Someone went to the effort of bringing this fish to Union Street and placing it upon his planter. They may have bought in a pet shop or from a fish monger. They may have caught it in the Gowanus Canal, Prospect Lake or the Atlantic Ocean.

They could have put it in the trash, ate it or fed it to another animal. But the placed it on top of a concrete planter.

Go figure......

I wound not trust these guys with my car

These signs were all over Park Slope. The map shows 406 15th Street, but the words say E 15th Street. Big difference. I am not gonna give you my car if you do not know where you are.



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Not the same

An interesting little street

There is a lot going on on Prospect Place between 6th Ave and Flatbush Ave. I was actually inspired to check it out by another blog, Save the Slope. That blogger is currently blogging about murals in the Slope. As the street he mentioned is near my polling place I figured I would check it out on Election Day.



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So I took my own photo of the mural at 92 Prospect Place. It musta looked much better when the paint was fresh.






I also found some interesting architecture on the other side of the street. It is hard to tell but they are building something new, but left a significant chunk of old wall just leaning on the building next door!








And then there was this house that is really unique in the neighborhood. You can see clear through to the other side. Unlike most see-through houses, it is totally not abandoned.

Xmas is coming....

It is on this truck!

It's election day?

Three times in the past 2 days I was handed a "Vote for Blooomberg flier". I asked all these nice people the same question. "Is Bloomberg paying you?" They first two said no and told me why they support him. The first gave him credit for making the city safe. I told him that I did not feel any safer than I did 8 years ago. The second said he improved NYC schools. I told her how I felt about data driven education. Test prep, test prep, test prep, test prep, test prep does not make smarter students.

But, today the volunteer told me he has absolutely no opinion of his own about Bloomberg. He just wanted to be involved in the political process. But I insisted that this 17 year old (I asked) must have a reason to campaign for Bloomberg and not Thompson. He actually did have an opinion, he said in this time of economic turmoil we need a person with business skills running this city. I told him that the fact that business people have been running the government is why we are in the economic mess we are in now.

10 years ago I voted against term limits, but I accepted that election. I don't recall voting to repeal term limits. I promise that in 4 years when Bloomberg suspends elections altogether that I will kiss his ring.