Posts that I never got around to posting: What could have been!

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EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition

An East Village resident's apartment proved to be a prized asset when she went to Craigslist in search of a swap near Washington, D.C., for the inauguration. (Daily News)

Jeremiah and Jill both pay their respects to the Old Devil Moon.

WTF at the under-plywood McNally eatery on the Bowery? (BoweryBoogie)

Times Square photo circa 1976. Anyone for Lipstick? (Stupefaction)

About that snowboard ramp in East River Park (City Room)

Humble beginnings for the new year (NYC Taxi Photo)

Good news on the Beacon Theatre renovation (Gothamist)

Meanwhile, in London: Check out some storefronts of various mom-and-pop shops (London Shop Fronts, via BoingBoing)

On new newly appointed New York state chief judge Jonathan Lippman: "Mr. Lippman's childhood friend Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the state Assembly, recounted his boyhood with Justice Lippman their families on Grand Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Mr. Silver recalled that he and Mr. Lippman were bar mitzvahed in the same synagogue and both worked as law secretaries in state Supreme Court early in their legal careers.

"He's now in New York's top judicial post and I am usually on the top pages of the New York Post," Mr. Silver, D-Manhattan, quipped.

When it came time for him to speak, Mr. Lippman looked at Mr. Silver and said, "Two kids from the Lower East Side -- not too shabby." (New York Law Journal)

This post doesn't really need a headline

Before Election Day on Avenue C near Sixth Street.



After Election day.

Nightmares

Outside Ace Bar, Election Night. Fifth Street near Avenue B.

Everyone wanted to help make a difference

At 8th Street and Avenue B.

Yes!: We won't have to move to, say, Greenland

See you in 2012, bitches

Democracy in action!

Yes, just successfully voted! Hello Maverick penis sleeve!

P.S.
No line...went by this morning just after 6, and there were some 300 people waiting. For voting.

C'MON PEOPLE! THERE'S STILL TIME TO KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE! WE CAN DO IT! NINE HOURS TILL THE POLLS CLOSE

Memories of Election 2008

Oh, my apologies: That headline should have read Bad memories of Election 2008!

Remembering Giuliani's "Countdown to Victory" calendar

236.com: Rudy's Countdown to Victory @ Yahoo! Video

Heh.

Exclusive: Today is Election Day

Heh. Just taking a quick look back at the political landscape in the neighborhood (and beyond) from this election year...

Noted

A statement from Mickey Leigh:

"It has been brought to my attention that Linda Cummings, using the name 'Ramone,' has recently been in the media joining with the Palin family and the McCains to attempt to aid their campaign for the Presidency. As a President of Ramones Productions, and brother of Joey Ramone, I just want it to be clear that Linda Cummings does not represent the political views of the Ramones. Surely, as for Joey Ramone, the only Ramones song he would sing at a Republican campaign event would be 'Glad To See You Go!'" (Brooklyn Vegan)

Ohh..."Glad to See You Go." Yes!

An erection year cover up?

The McCain/Erection '08 poster I saw this past weekend on Seventh Street and Avenue C...



...has been replaced...



Conspiracy theories anyone?

Erection '08 and other political fliers

Much as already been made about NYC artist Ron English's Obama/Lincoln fusion portraits...(this one on Avenue C near Seventh Street).



Meanwhile, more and more of Jenny's Palin creations are now popping up in the neighborhood...(this one at 13th Street and Second Avenue)



And this is my first sighting of Ron English's McCain/Viagra ad (this one on Seventh Street and Avenue C)...They appeared in Los Angeles in the spring.

Decision 2008

Who will I go as this Halloween? And where the hell are the Sarah Palin masks? I asked a nice woman working at Duane Reade. She said "Who?" When I said she is the Republican vice presidential candidate, the worker threw up and her hands and said "all the masks that we have are out."

Posts that I never got around to posting: What could have been!

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