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Dance Floors For People Like Me With Day Jobs / Remembering P.S.1

From the Arts Section of the NY Times, reported here from Daily Radar.  It's an idea I've thought about for a long time and it's happening, since I have a job that often requires me to get up as early as 6 AM!

LAST Sunday, under a slowly revolving disco ball, a dance floor in Brooklyn was jumping. The German D.J. Losoul spun techno and house, and the crowd — many in it wearing sunglasses — moved, two-stepping and twirling with arms raised. Toward the end of the party, when he let a single beat crescendo for several minutes before abruptly cutting it off, the crowd cheered — and then booed. The fun was nearly over, and it was barely 9 p.m.In this case they were doing it along a riverbank in the afternoon, with lights strung on the trees, til moonrise.  

Aficionados of dance music are used to waiting until the wee hours to catch top-of-the-line talent. But especially in summer an array of early parties, some outdoors, offer a respite from late nights and expensive clubs, allowing people with day jobs the opportunity to hear the latest in experimental beats and still be at the office on time in the morning.

Then they have a bunch of quotes from people my age (50s) and I actually got the article from a friend in group of  "Geriatric Ravers."  One afternoon venue they mentioned is the  P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens.   Come to think of it, I actually went to one of those things when I was in NYC and I have the pictures!

Ruth Madoff Had to Leave Her Fur Behind

she had to leave her fur behind

Feds seize Madoff penthouse, wife leaves

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million Manhattan penthouse on Thursday and forced his wife to move out and leave her possessions behind, including a fur coat she had asked to take with her, an official told The Associated Press.

Ruth Madoff walked out of the apartment carrying just a straw bag after she was told she couldn't take her coat, the official said.

Andy Borowitz - Madoff's Soul Turns Up on Craigslist

New York Subway Stations Named for Banks

The MTA officially has sold naming rights to one of its busiest subway stations in Brooklyn.   It's a London-based bank and the deal was for $4 million. All of the subway stations at the Brooklyn hub will have Barclays Center added to their names.  

One person interviewed in the article said:

"To rename the 59th and Lex stop the McDonald’s stop — it ain’t going to work. I don’t think it will stick.” 

There is all kinds of creepy stuff in this article: New York Subway Stations Named for Banks

Full Figured Fashion Show in New York

Daily Beast Story - Fat-shionistas Unite

Fatshionistas will also cite Audrey Hepburn and Kate Moss as fashion icons alongside Beth Ditto and Velvet D’Amour, a 300-pound model and photographer who rocked the Parisian runways of John Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier in 2006 wearing exquisite body-conscious fare.

I would guess the thin girls sell more magazines and the fat ones more clothes.

Calvin Klein Threesome Billboard

I saw it in a magazine and raised one eyebrow, but I think the Guess ads with Brazilians are sexier. Some like it, some don't and Calvin Klein has been a little controversial at times ever since the first Brooks Shields jeans ads.

Comic Relief Video: Andy Warhol Eats A Hamburger

World Naked Bicyclist Day

NY City  .. though the riders shown aren't nude, they have nice body paint.

Fremont Solstice parade coming up next weekend in Seattle!!!

Tim Burton Art Show

Career retrospective at MOMA

It will run from Nov. 22 through April 26. The exhibition will contain more than 700 drawings, paintings, puppets, costumes and other artifacts from Mr. Burton’s film career, as well as displays of his early nonprofessional and student films, artwork from his Web animation series.

Big Government Plane & NYC - The Real Deal Not Photoshop

Yes it's an expensive scary scandal that caused a resignation but it's a kinda cool photo that would have been much easier to PhotoShop - oh well - not the same.   I guess it's kinda like when Bush did his stunt on the aircraft carrier.  

By the way, it's been years since 9/11/01 and the Twin Towers site still only has a skimpy structure on it after remaining a pit for quite awhile. (There are lots of pits around Seattle too .. unfinished projects that have come to a standstill) 

Sound of Music Flash Mob - NYC

Sound of Music Train Station @ Yahoo! Video