Thunder Snowstorm in NYC ....

Talk About the Weather,

HUH?

 

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Just too weird...

September Again

Heightened Security....

It took us one hour and twenty minutes exactly to go 3.9 miles from Astoria to touching the pavement on Manhattan Island....


Just one more Monkey for Wally.

Anyone Want to Move to NYC????

Leave a comment if you toy with the fact!

Battery Park is in the Harbor....

Another Queens' Queen...

We are reposting this as our dearest Cyndi has once again not forgotten herself & who she is.  She has opened up True Colors Residence in Harlem, for homeless LGBT youth....

An amazing woman.

Read more about it HERE, from WonderMan.

Now the Repost-

Cyndi Lauper

An Ozone Park Queen

Go figure...

What can we tell you that you don't already know?

She is from Queens 

Before her career took off -

Three different doctors told her she would never sing again....

We chose this video because you can feel Queens NYC in it; We should know, we live here & know those girls that just want to have fun....
One was over last night...

qw

Oooo! and the diversity of the girls back in what? '83?.....
Welcome to Queens!

Living in NYC....

We often feel like keying peoples' shit, but we don't.  If you live in the city, parking is often more important than driving...


We did, however, tear down some caution tape today that blocked our way to the bodega to buy beer...


We are quite proud of ourselves.

Another Trip to the Art Squirrel's Warehouse Today....

Traffic, Traffic, Traffic....

When we arrived at the squirrel's lair she had already gathered herself, thank God, so it only took an hour to load the van.  This time it was almost exclusivly large antique museum grade frames, a very nice load! While we were loading the dolly things were shifting (the place is packed with the grooviest stuff), and as a large framed piece started to fall, we reached out and grabbed it just in time....

Yes,
It was an original Keith Haring, covered in dust....
(One just shakes one's head in dismay...)

Then off to Manhattan! 
With our full load, and more,
Traffic, traffic, traffic...

We are home now and everything is better.  We have beer, a dozen baked pork buns from Mai le Wah's and a very special package of imported lace & a lovely card from Princess all the way from Oz....

(More on that later)!

What a Perfectly Charming Evening...

Dinner with Maddie & Mame

After a lovely balmy walk through the streets of Queens we arrived at Aliada, a very good Greek-Cypriot restaurant.  David had told us to dress casually, so we did. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that he & Maddie were already there, dressed casually too! 

They shoved in the back corner table by the open French doors with its lovely breeze (almost as if they knew where to seat the likes of us). 

And immediately it was if we have all known each other very well for many years...

So remarkable in fact that we had the waitress capture this moment on film:

Can't you just feel the love???

Well let us tell you, what a lovely dinner & what a lovely time....

A couple of really great guys, and we three, not being the types that talk, didn't discuss any of you other bloggers and your proclivities.....

But after the third bottle of wine we decided,

with mascara running in the tears down our faces,

 that we love you All, 

desperately....

Then

walking home we decided to do a little store-front voguing:

As we said:
 What a great couple of gals when they're loaded;
 or when we're loaded, or.....

Day Trip !

We wish it was like this....

But more likely, it'll be like this.

That Seemed to Go Very Well...

We Offer Our Sincerest Thanks to All of You That Wished Us Well

& 

Kept Our Employment Issues on Their Minds.

The Interviewer said that he would check my references and talk to the owner tonight.

Now It's Up To You New York!

Sunset View From Astoria

In Answer To Your Question...

Deep Purple,

(thanks for the loving input Stephen & MJ).

Watch it soon, my loves,,,
,,, as this will be pulled.

qw

Ppssst! - Being nebulous has an purpose.

UPDATE: You should have watched it when we told you to....

Love Walk? Hate Talk? Or Perhaps, Something Yummy ???

Ahhh...
New York (City)....

It's a little after eight PM in NYC,  and we have had ourselves quite the day,  but we don't want to talk about that, except to say that we drove in three of the five boroughs today; Queens, New York and The Bronx..
Anyway, some of you may know, that there were three events in NYC today worth note: The 26th annual AIDS WALK,  The Senator; Reverend: Rueben: Diaz:  Rally-To-Protect-Marriage and The Ninth Avenue International Food Festival.

Now, we have provided the links so that you may know what we have had time to gather at this time:

#1  Forty-thousand people went to the AIDS WALK in the rain,  (We guess that people that love don't melt in the rain)...

#2  Maybe Two-thousand people went to The Bronx for the Rally-To-Protect-Marriage, (it seems that a great deal of them are worried about melting under nature's cleansing rain)....

#3  And One person at least went to The Ninth Avenue International Food Festival , (we didn't research it, but we imagine that one receives generous portions & cheap prices in the rain)....

David Dust is most definitely one of our heros!


Perhaps we will post this and go do a graph???

9:35 EDT

We Did a Graph....

So
Which way is this going in New York?
(norma! peenee!... I need the name of the H-O-R-S-E?)...

And now the GOP in the city  (including bloombbastic-$$$ and, Oh! Hai! Cunnyeatacut!), are footing the bill for full equality???

We guess they are sending a message to the GOP, At large (and we mean, "large"),  but I'm not drunk enough to figure out what the message is.....
We'll get back to ya, later....

Commuting....

If you didn't see it earlier..

HERE it is...

We knew it would get pulled, so we waited....

When we first got here in NYC, there was a whole lot of crazy people....

Perhaps,
We just stopped noticing...

OR,

Maybe,
They are making a comeback.

qw

We Hadn't Known....

That This Was Joe

Anyway,  you should check out Christwire's article...

It's a hoot!

Let There Be More LIght

The air is thick...
Tension fills the air...
It has been one long and interesting day, trust us....

Then.
At the supposed end of it, we bought a couple of forties at the Korean bodega, and, as we were paying we heard a loud motorcycle pull up & stop....
Bikes bore us now, mostly; we really don't have to deal with them in this tiny, little town.........
(We own our colors).
We must point out that we really are a gentleman & the closest thing to Emily Post you'll ever meet....  And it is proper, though seldom realized,  one that is exiting an entrance possesses precedence over one that wishes to enter.... (clue).
Then.
So, now,  here is this "All That",  biker chick in our way (sweet!),  she looks at us, we at her, she stood down & we departed.  Out of the corner of our eye we saw that they had pulled up on the side-WALK,  but we really didn't look at the bike, of which, by the sound was fucking fantastic (we don't give a shit anymore, really).  Waiting to cross the avenue, we realized that she was not alone, as we heard a loud, masculine, american voice salute the Korean shop-keep with the greeting:

"Heil Hitler!"

...

Then.

We thought: "Enough of that."....

Went home and searched for something on the youtubes.......

And found one...

Now,  we have always loved this song, although we know it is not for everyone, but this vid is of such good quality, and the Young, French, Dancers did totally wash the bigotry away....

At least for this moment....

Smoke a Joint

&

Try to Imagine a Groovy World...

Peenee is excused from class.....

qw

One For The Birds....

Thirteen and a half years ago when we realized that we would be living in NYC, our chief lament to ourselves was: "How can a barefoot scantly clothed Florida boy survive in a place that is dedicated only to humanity?".   Becoming Grizzly Adams was by far a more palatable situation for us, sure, we spent a good portion of our lives in northern Ohio (which means beautiful, and it was, when it came to flora & fauna),  but New York City???

Well,

This Post is for

Our Fine Feathered Friends

That Live in The City, Against The Odds...

Yesterday we saw a very handsome Ring-Necked Pheasant walking over the Cross Island Parkway on the 160th. street bridge....

And that started us thinking that life will go on in spite of us monkeys.

The American Goldfinch seems to like to visit Queens in the late summer when the thistles are seeding .....

In about two more weeks the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird will be back, and they, being tired from their flight, actually perch here in the city, of which, we understand is a rare thing for a human to witness (We've lost count).....

Then there is the plump Red Tailed Hawk that lives in our neighborhood....

And sixty seconds after crossing the George Washington Bridge, immediate right onto the Palisades Parkway.....

Wild Turkeys in full regalia....

And who could forget the day that we heard that awe full scream of the Pileated Woodpecker, here in NYC???

Honestly, look at that face, don't you just want to do him?

Please understand...

&

Don't even get us started about the Whitestone parrots....

Cause they are the ones that give all the other birds the bird....

qw

Manhattan Can Still Be Groovy......

Sometimes....

What a day...
We left the house today at a quarter to seven to drive to Gramercy to pick up some antiques for delivery on the Upper West Side.  Getting to Gramercy took sixty-five minutes, normally it would take about an half an hour & one time we made it in fifteen minutes, door to door (we cruise, never speed, obey laws).
This trip on the subway or the bus/subway combo takes an average of forty minutes, door to door. It really is not that far a distance.

Once there we loaded up the minivan and we were on our way.  We chose seventeenth street to get to the West Side Highway (lunatics take the Thru streets (two-way streets)), got the red light at Broadway, lit a cigarette & looked over and there saw the new chrome statue of Andy with his Bloomies bag filled with copies of Interview magazine that he would regularly pass out on that corner.

It was honestly touching, a very nice & real NYC treat....

You can read a little more about it at:
EXILE ON MOAN STREET

The delivery went well, the client was very pleased with the repairs and restorations, he tipped well too.
Nice Guy. We left there at nine-thirty and didn't get across the East River till ten-thirty, from whence we went directly to our next client's for a bout of heavy spring gardening, which actually was good for our psyche....

We don't know why, but this song kept playing in one of our heads while we were typing this...

Whatever...

QUEENS...

WHATEVER.