Happy Bastille Day~!

Happy 4th of July~!

Up on the rooftop of my friend Mark's apartment building in Times Square. Here is a short film I took of the ending fireworks and cheers from the crowds below on the street. The fireworks went off on six barges out in the Hudson River this year. We could only see part of the show as we were looking between the buildings ha. All the best; great dinner, fun friends and fireworks.

Birthday wish...

OK, so I can dream, can't I?

Springtime in Toronto

I did take a long weekend and visitited Toronto. This was my first trip to Canada and I quite enjoyed myself. I saw most every museum, district of the city, and with the assistance of my "Fun Map", I enjoyed Toronto's Gay Village most every night.

Happy Chinese New Year

From Chinatown NYC. I walked up into the middle of all of the celebration and noise and noticed everyone running to catch this little 'prize' that was parachuting down with all of this confetti into the cheering crowd. fun colorful time...Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy New Year

A new feature on my Macintosh allows me to select a moving background and "step into" the scene... below is a movie I made of me swimming in the ocean with the fishies.

I Love Fireworks...

...I really do.. and this year, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage to New York, the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks took place over the Hudson River. Lucky for me as I live on the central/west/lower part of Manhattan island and I've never liked going to the east side to watch the fireworks.

I really feel fireworks "work" better on the Hudson River. Easier access for more people, I hope they continue to celebrate the 4th of July on the Hudson river in the future.

To avoid the huge crowds gathering in midtown, I walked down Chambers Street here in Tribeca to Rockefeller park in Battery Park City. It's actually the best local location to watch the fireworks because you can see both the Macy's fireworks upriver and the New Jersey fireworks at Liberty State Park across the river. It's great.

I noticed this year how many foreigners there were viewing the fireworks, I heard many languages being spoken and the language of "ooohs" and "aaahs" were understood by all.

Happy 4th - Hotdogs for All

If it's the 4th of July, it's Nathans Hot Dog Eating Contest. Real American Stories tells how this tradition began. This year, an even stranger contest, Elephants versus humans in Coney Islands contest where three elephants ate 505 hot dog buns while three people ate 143 hot dogs. OK, pass the ketchup please.

Lights for Gay Pride 2009

Every year our Art Deco icon The Empire State Building lights up in "Lavender" for gay pride day. Happy Pride to all~!

Open Cuba

I just love the "lost in time" aspect of Cuba, especially the vintage American cars that are just driving around Cuba like it's 'yesterday' once again. I want so much for this country to be open again and the decades old 'silliness' of our gov't to stop. so PLEEEEZE,,, can't we just get over this once and for all? Sign the petition here at OpenCuba.org

Paris

Happy Easter