03.17.10
St. Patrick’s Day NYC
You know, hanging around blowing our bagpipes and stuff.
Replicants are like any other machine; they're either a benefit or a hazard.

Feb 5th, 2010 – Detail from Cleopatra’s Needle description plaque in Central Park, NYC
Inexplicably, I take a LOT of self-pics while in the bathrooms at restaurants and hotels. Something about the decor and really, really good lighting. Kind of Guyswithiphones but with less junk hanging out.
Odd detail from the front of a building down on Bond St on the Lower East Side.
With my schedule full of decidedly non-NYC things to do over the next few weeks, I seized the opportunity to go see the Tim Burton exhibition now featured at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, NYC. The special showing is sponsored by the SyFy channel and is a collection of Tim Burton’s art including drawings, sketches, paintings, sculptures, and other related items from his movies and animated shorts he’s directed and produced over the course of several decades.
I missed last night’s spontaneous rally at Times Square after the defeat of the Marriage Equality bill by the NY State Senate yesterday afternoon. When I heard more than a thousand people showed up to voice their outrage over the defeat my first thought was, “I’m not sure counting unaware tourists trying to get their theater groove on at TKTS necessarily constitutes a pro-gay marriage stance or organized outrage at the New York State Senate.” But whatever, I let it go.
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