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Museum Impressions
Yesterday at the Brooklyn Museum with an unwitting special focus on the feminine
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged brooklyn, Female form, feminine, feminism, mirrors, museum, nudes, photography, reflections
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These Roses are Ready for their Close-Up, Mr. DeMille!
Another year… another June… This year the rose garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden had received a “hard cut”, as we heard a passerby explain. Which made it still lovely but less lush than in years past. So I’ll focus … Continue reading
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Tagged A Rose by any Name, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Beth Ditto, Bette Midler, Blondie, botanic garden, brooklyn, Debbie Harry, Ethel Merman, For the Boys, Imelda Staunton, James Horner, June, Kate Winslet, Linda Lavin, Makin' Whoopee, Patti LuPone, Rosalind Russell, Rose, Roses, The Rose, Titanic, Tyne Daly
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The Views from THE VIEW
Ed and I were treated to dinner at The View restaurant on the top of the Marriott Hotel in Times Square. 48 stories high, the whole restaurant is perched on a circular platform that, like a very slowly rotating record, … Continue reading
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Tagged ABBA, Billy Idol, Billy Joel, Charlie Chaplin, Chrysler Building, City Lights, City of Stars, Cole Porter, Down in the Depths (in the 90th floor), Hot in the City, Hudson River, I am the City, Kate Bush, La La Land, Manhattan, Marriott, Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway), Portia Nelson, restaurant, Ryan Gosling, skyscraper, The Lion King, The View, Times Square, Top of the City
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GETTING KINKY WITH JAKE AND WAYNE
Ed and I originally saw “Kinky Boots” when it was still in previews. We had treated each other with reciprocal Broadway tickets for Xmas, because we had high hopes for a Harvey Fierstein / Cyndi Lauper musical collaboration. The performance … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Al Hirschfeld, Armistead Maupin, Boys Keep Swinging, Broadway, Bye Bye Birdie, Chita Rivera, Cyndi Lauper, Dick van Dyke, drag queen, Gesamtkunstwerk, Harvey Fierstein, House of David, Jake Shears, Kinky Boots, Lea DeLaria, LGBTQ, musical, Wayne Brady, Whose Line is it Anyway
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The Map Room of Madison, Wisconsin
On the second floor of a hundred year old house near Vilas Park in Madison, Wisconsin, is a guest bedroom known as the Map Room. Three of its four walls have been wall papered by huge maps … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Austria, Berchtesgaden, Churchill, Darkest Hour, East Germany, Ed Elder, Freiberg, funeral, General, Hitler, Island, Kitzbühel, LaFollette, Madison, Map Room, maps, National Guard, North Pole, Pforzheim, Ralph Immel, Vilas Park, War Room, Wisconsin, World War 2
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NIGHT and SNOW in CENTRAL PARK
Secret Snow Song #1 (Can’t guess the song titles and artists? They can be found alphabetically tagged at the bottom of post, which should help.) Secret Night Song #1 Secret Night Song #2 … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged 50 Words for Snow, A Single Man Soundtrack, Abel Korzeniowski, All Night, All Through the Night, Beyoncé, Billy Joel, Brokeback Mountain Soundtrack, Central Park, Cyndi Lauper, Ella Fitzgerald, Gustavo Santaolalla, horse drawn carriage, Kate Bush, music, night, night scene, photography, Snow, street lamp, Tchaikovsky, Through the Long Night, Waltz of the Snowflakes, winter
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NAZI LEGACY ALIVE AND WELL IN AN AUSTRIAN CEMETERY
I came upon a plaque on the church wall in the cemetery at the edge of the Austrian ski resort town of Kitzbühel that profoundly disturbed me. The chiseled marble commemorates a soldier who died in World War II. There … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Adah Gleich, Austria, Berlin, cemetery, churchyard, Confederate, Fatherland, Germany, grave, Heimat, Heldentod, Holocaust, Homeland, Karl Prieler, Kitzbühel, memorials, Monika Skowronski, Nazi, Propaganda, Schindler's List, Stahnsdorf, Stolpersteine, Tirol, Vaterland, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, World War 1, World War 2
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MONARCH BUTTERFLIES’ BROOKLYN STOPOVER
In which Ed and I become Monarch Butterfly Paparazzi Ed and I returned from the gym to find a flock of Monarch butterflies flapping about outside our window. It appears that a particular vine wrapped around our garden fence was … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged brooklyn, Butterfly, Humming Chorus, Madame Butterfly, migration, Monarch, North America, Park Slope, Puccini
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THE COW BELL CANTATA – and a Splatterrific Intermezzo
Wild Emperors, Coxcombs and Horny Mountains in Tirol Plus Heidi-centric Encores! COW BELL CANTATA – CANTATA DA CAMPANA MUCCA registrato da maestro Daniello Ashkenasi 1. Movimento – Allegro con Forte Subito Encountered some musical cows on the slopes … Continue reading
Posted in Chamber Works, Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Alps, Austria, brass band, Cantata, Cow, Cow Bell, Frl. Menke, Hahnenkamm, Heidi, Hohe Berge, Intermezzo, Kitzbühel, Kitzbüheler Horn, Lebenberg, mastication, music, Neue Deutsche Welle, Platzkonzert, subito, Tirol, Wilde Kaiser
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AIDS Memorial, Greenwich Village, NYC
Breaths – The Flirtations Jesus to a Child – George Michael Smalltown Boy – Bronski Beat Boy Blue – Cyndi Lauper
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Tagged Aids, Being Boring, Boy Bue, Breaths, Bronksi Beat, Bruce Springsteen, Chains of Love, Cyndi Lauper, Elton John, Erasure, George Michael, GMHC, Greenwich Village, Jenny Holzer, Jesus to a Child, John Grant, Joseph Sonnabend, LGBT, LGBTQ, memorial, Neil Young, New York City, Pet Shop Boys, Philadelphia, Return to Oz, Scissor Sisters, Smalltown Boy, Song of Myself, Streets of Philadelphia, TC and Honeybear, The Flirtations, The Last Song, Walt Whitman
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TOTAL ECLIPSE in PAINTED HILLS, OREGON
The Total Eclipse of August 21, 2017 As Seen from the Magnificent Painted Hills, Oregon With Eclipstastic Music! We left Redmond, Oregon, at 7:15am. Madras, just north of Redmond, would be smack in the path of totality, but we decided … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, A-Ha, Another Day of Sun, August 21, Black Hole Sun, Blondie, Bonnie Tyler, C Moon, David Bowie, desert, Eclipse, Elton John, Fiddler on the Roof, George Michael, Good Day Sunshine, Good Morning Sarshine, Hair, Here Comes the Sun, In the Sun, Invisible Sun, Kate Bush, La La Land, Lea DeLaria, Let the Sunshine In, Man on the Moon, Moonage Daydream, occlusion, Oregon, Painted Hills, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, REM, Shoe Tree, Sole Tree, Soundgarden, Sun King, sunflowers, sunrise, sunset, The Beatles, The Dark Side of the Moon, The Great Gig in the Sky, The Police, The Sun Always Shines On TV, Total Eclipse of the Heart
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WATER LILIES (Pics and Tunes)
Testing out the new camera at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Lily #1 (for details on the “Lily” songs, check on the “tags” at the bottom of the post) Lily #2
CHERRY BLOSSOMS GALORE!
Back in the BBG You don’t know just what you’ll see, boy! Back in the BB Back in the BB Back in the BBG (with apologies to The Beatles:) It’s peek cherry blossom blooming season this weekend at the Brooklyn … Continue reading
