A slideshow of houses in my neighborhood.
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2009-12-26
2009-12-21
Standing Still, Looking Ahead
Illumination of Earth by Sun at the southern solstice.
This season's Solstice (Winter in the Northern hemisphere, Summer in the Southern), occurs at 17:47pm UTC on December 21, 2008. That's 12:47 PM where I am, in the Eastern Time zone.
This season's Solstice (Winter in the Northern hemisphere, Summer in the Southern), occurs at 17:47pm UTC on December 21, 2008. That's 12:47 PM where I am, in the Eastern Time zone.
The name is derived from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), because at the solstices, the Sun stands still in declination; that is, its apparent movement north or south comes to a standstill.We got about 10" of snow over the weekend, and it's not going anywhere soon. So it's definitely wintery here. Here's another of my neighbors' illuminary displays.
- Solstice, Wikipedia
2009-12-05
It Begins
Update, 2009-12-26: Holiday Lights 2009
The Wizard of Slocum Place does it again, with help from his next-door neighbor.
For best effect, view this photo on a black background.
I took this snapshot last night with my little Nikon P&S while walking home from dinner at Mimi's Hummus on Cortelyou Road with Blog Widow. Tonight's snow will create an ideal wintery photo-op.
The Wizard of Slocum Place does it again, with help from his next-door neighbor.
For best effect, view this photo on a black background.
I took this snapshot last night with my little Nikon P&S while walking home from dinner at Mimi's Hummus on Cortelyou Road with Blog Widow. Tonight's snow will create an ideal wintery photo-op.
2009-12-01
Names, World AIDS Day (Off-Topic)
2021-12-01: See Names, 2021-12-01
In observance of World AIDS Day, I thought I would re-publish this list of names from my old (neglected and needing to be retired) Web site. These are some of the people, all men, I lost, nearly all to AIDS. I stopped actively maintaining this list in 1994. In alphabetical order.
In observance of World AIDS Day, I thought I would re-publish this list of names from my old (neglected and needing to be retired) Web site. These are some of the people, all men, I lost, nearly all to AIDS. I stopped actively maintaining this list in 1994. In alphabetical order.
- William "Wolf" Agress, a lover, died in 1990
- Andre, a bartender at the Tunnel Bar in the East Village, now defunct
- Vincent Barnes
- Jerry Bihm
- Bobby
- Colin Curran
- Erez Dror, co-owner and -founder of the Black Hound Bakery in the East Village, New York City, now defunct
- Jeff Glidden, a lover
- Paul "Griff" Griffin
- Martin Noel Jorda
- David Kirschenbaum, community organizer with the New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
- Art Kohn, founder of the BackRoom BBS in New York City, now defunct
- Jim Lewis
- Luis
- John Mangano
- Jeffrey Martin
- Morris Matthews
- Karl Michalak
- Mark Melvin
- Norm
- Tony Panico, my first lover in New York City
- Charles Pope, barfly extraordinaire
- Gordon Provencher, 1955-1992
- Tom Raleigh
- Craig Rodwell, founder of the Oscar Wilde Bookstore in Greenwich Village, NYC
- Tony Rostron
- Jurgen Schmitt
- Giulio Sorrentino
- Buddy Volani
- Jeremy Wells
- David Joseph Wilcox, 1957-1996