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yay, more pics!
That´s looks like an excellent restaurant. I hope the food tasted as good as it looked!
I love the chandelears, especially hanging from that rustic looking roof. I find the contrast really cool.
Alphabet city? I think that was the area what I warned not to visit when I was there in 2003. But I guess the area has changed for the better then?
I think I read it in a guide book actually. I guess that only goes to prove that you should never trust everything you read :)
By 2003, I think your friend was very--cautiously conservative or conservatively cautious, I think! ::)
Monika, my sweet Swedish rose!!Hey, not a bad idea at all. We could visit Heath´s restaurant and everything. I LOVED those pics that Jmmgalagher posted from it a week or two ago.
We COULD save for a trip to New York together...... :D......maybe a mini-gathering.......
Just an idea..... :D
Hope you had a beatiful birthday!!
Merci jmmgallagher,
The two guys, one in blue and the other in red, looks like my brother (blue) and his partner/lover!!
Maybe is was them, since they were there?
Was it in Deux Amis?
As they are arriving now from England for lastest trip for Christmas, may
you will reply before their arrival, so I can maybe ask them if they were in that
restaurant?
Or maybe you know those two in that restaurant?
I had my art studio in New York City for many years, but I do not remember a Deux Amis!
How long has it been there? Whom are the owners? Maybe gay guy(s) ??
Au revoir,
hugs!
Heckuva job, John! These photos I recognized and remember from childhood.
wow!!
I love your photo reportages John. You always capture the mood perfectly. :)
New York looks beautiful.
T've always wanted to see New York in the fall but now I also want to see New York at Christmastime......Well, I want to see New York before I die and by God, I will do that...... >:( :o 8) :) :) :)I´m sure you will, Berit!
Thanks for more pics, John :).
Loved the contrast between the Rockefeller tree and the beggarly one :laugh:.
And I saw my sculpture, Prometheus! :D
Oviously, it's not mine - but I view it as "mine". Although the tree and the ice skating rink are well-known to me, I hadn't heard of the statue in the forty years of my life, until Chuckie sent me a postcard with it. A few weeks later, I saw it/read about it again on BetterMost. We talked about it on Chuckie's blog.
I added Prometheus to my "must see" places of NYC (whenever I will get to see it).
Gosh, Fabienne--do you think I can get a job doing this?
(I want to be Jimmy Olsen! :laugh:)
Dank u Merci!
You're doing a great job already John. :) The New York tourist authority should hire you. :)
*googles 'Jimmy Olson'*
Sorry, the name Jimmy Olson didn't ring any bells. Mmmm, you have a thing for bow ties? ;)
And I saw my sculpture, Prometheus! :D
And John, you would make a marvelous Jimmy Olsen. But you would make a marvelous great many people. You could be a whole Algonquin Round Table. :-*
"My favorite Richard E. Grant role, in The Player (I love that movie too):
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My favorite Richard E. Grant role, in The Player (I love that movie too):
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So, WHY is Christmas on December 25, can someone enlighten me?
And now another question: Will you be celebrating Epiphany? If so, how??
Thanks for the information about Epiphany, Jeff, it helps a lot!
I am planning to celebrate somehow. I will be going to a women's rock climbing class that nite.
In church last Sunday I learned that the wise men were Zoroastrian priests who came from the Near East, perhaps Persia/Iran area, and arrived when Jesus was a little less than 2 years old. Interesting, because I've always thought that when he disappeared for a few years, he may have gone to the Near East and learned about those religions.
In church last Sunday I learned that the wise men were Zoroastrian priests who came from the Near East, perhaps Persia/Iran area, and arrived when Jesus was a little less than 2 years old.
:o Be careful you don't fall off!
If I ever make it to the class! It's blizzarding in Denver right now!
Christmas is celebrated on December 25 because Julius Caesar's astronomers goofed when they calculated the date of the Winter Solstice. They calculated it as December 25 when, as we all know, it's usually more like December 21. The Romans celebrated the Saturnalia on December 25, and later in the Empire period December 25 was made the celebration Natalis Solis Invictus (not sure I've got the spelling right on that Latin!)--the Birth of the Unconquered Sun. Christianity preempted--or usurped--the date for the Birth of the Son of God to compete with the non-Christian festival, and to keep all those new Christians from backsliding because all those non-Christians were having a good time on December 25. It gave the Christians something to celebrate.