I took some photos today but my heart is not in it, perhaps because I met people on the path who had their dog wearing snow boots. ►►►read more
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Some of the photos I took at the post-election party in and around Park Plaza Hotel today. ►►►read more
So I am trying to enjoy the playoff football here in Boston and every timeout there is a carpet bombing of the senatorial commercials from Martha Coakley and Scott Brown. The sequence of the ads is rather amusing, first there would be a Coakley ad saying that Brown is George Bush’s prodigal son, he lives on Walls Street where he shares his bed with the bankers. Then there would be a Brown ad where he is shown in his kitchen or riding his truck, saying I am just a regular shmo, a National Guard officer, I don’t work on Wall St. Pretty funny actually.
In the old country there was a steady political scapegoat, the Jews. In the post crash America there is a new euphemism for that called “the bankers”. It has somewhat similar undertones, scheming, got all the money (especially our money). And because it hits people in their empty pockets, the response is visceral (so they hope). Too bad that both Coakley and Brown are lawyers, so the lawyer bashing is not available for this campaign. For all we know Bernie Frank might be as culpable in the housing crash as Fannie and Freddie combined. Alas just like with the lawyers, you can’t blame politicians in this campaign either. So for sure, must be the bankers.
WBUR reports on the rumor that MFA is negotiating to acquire Leonardo’s self-portrait discovered last year in Basilicata, Italy (although it was never confirmed officially that it’s a Leonardo). The painting was discovered during a research into the history archives of the Tempeleers, Ordre Souverain et Militaire du Temple de Jérusalem. I guess something good came out of the Da Vinci Code after all (Times).
MFA is undergoing a massive renovation and it would be a fitting cherry on top of the new museum structure.
Although the portrait might beat all time records in an auction, it really makes sense that a painting of this significance finds a home in an established, properly curated collection. (photo via 2baci)
I noticed kids playing hockey on the Chandler pond in Brighton and I decided to come back to take some photographs of the hockey in the snow. But twenty minutes later they were gone, they couldn’t play anymore in the heavy snow. So I took some photos anyway. Nothing better than a snow. ►►►read more
My friend Tom, AKA @bostontweet posted this photo, he tweeted: “I don’t know who “Push Play” is but apparently the girls camping out at the Paradise do”. I am fascinated with the camping fanatics. The notion of camping for anything seems so utterly bizarre. But I find it amusing that you can tell just by looking at this Paradise club camp that “Push Play” must be some boy band, and it surely is.
This is at the event in New York on October 26, 2009 titled “Generation Birthright Israel: The Impact of an Israel Experience on Jewish Identity and Choices”. Barry Shrage presented the Brandeis University’s Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies “independent” survey on the impact of Birthright and intermarriage. Here is what the Birthright’s angel investor, billionaire Michael Steinhardt had to say. ►►►read more
The unplanned intersection. When Bolt Bus parachutes you at the corner, full force of New York energy swirls around. You can’t design it, you can’t predict it, you can’t understand it. It’s a stage or a theater where everyone is looking at your next step, a dance of an unrehearsed unison [click to enlarge].
Here is New York, E. B. White, 1949:
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last—the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.”
Photo via flickr/paul-g, the quote via Cdixon Tumblog
- Israeli Kitchen – Poussins Stuffed With Rice and Pine Nuts
- Baroness Tapuzina – Italian Soufganyiot – Frittole
- Food Bridge- Greek Meatballs
- Cooking Manager – Do You Admit To Guests That the Food Isn’t Great?
- אין מױל ארײן – Uppåkra – Swedish Potato Cookies for Passover
- Kosher Camembert – Sunday Morning any Time
via a Mother in Israel – Blogger’s Night Out in Petach Tikva
As I watched thousands of bright colored revelers I was asking myself, where are they hiding during the week? And then of course the fringes always appear numerous when they come out to dance. Everything important is always at the fringes. ►►►read more
This is a year old video from a software conference in Boston. For many of us, who follow Seth Godin, there is a familiar core of his ideas. Still you always learn somehting new. ►►►read more
The tall ships are in town. I went to see the Argentinean Libertad, a truly beautiful and gracious ship. I spent few hours on board and I took the photos. ►►►read more
