.you can run to the Coney Island roller coaster.

This is a Giant Chinese Salamander:

Look at it's little "hands"!
(I think it's name is Gerald)

and this is a very, very tiny one:

(a yet unnamed species - I'll name it Nototriton Maxillium)

.but if you run.

Here are a few things on my mind:

1. There was a girl who looked like Janeane Garofalo circa Reality Bites reading Nietzsche on the subway this morning. Make of that what you will.
2. Who remembers this music video? I do!
3. Jesse Eisenberg now officially meets my Jew-crush quota. It's the hair really.
4. On my way to work I saw this man. I bet he does this every day.

Okay, bye
(I'm gonna go watch Zombieland again)

.i know it isn't dignified to run.

The Touro Synagogue was built
in 1763
in Rhode Island,
a state that was founded by people who
were thought
to be too radical
for the Massachusetts Bay Colony
(even though the Jews came over because they heard that those crazy Rhode Islanders were taking all sorts of people in the 1650s).

Moses Seixas, the head of the synagogue
wrote to George Washington
(my favorite president)
and this was part of the first president's response

The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

Pretty cool, right?
Especially because in 2010
France banned the wearing of burqas in public
(technically anything that covers the face but it was a direct reaction to the massive amount of Muslims coming to Europe)

.kick the heels into the Brooklyn dirt.

I use old National Geographics a lot in
my artwork.
And hand to Jesus,
I found this ad the other day
from an April 1989 issue.

Ouch.

(click to enlarge)

.eleanor put those boots back on.

These were two mice

(who are probably already snake food by now)

at the Petco

last week.

Awwww.

Or are these rats....?

(flip record to side 5A)

Martin Luther King Jr said:

"I love you. I would rather die than hate you"

Terry Jones and the like should be asking themselves,
How do we rebuild instead of destroy?

.and if so, is there?.

Guess where in New York?

Answer: The courtyards of St. John the Divine

(the prettiest place I've ever been in the city and hate myself for not going before)

.and just maybe she's wrong.

Governors Island is
no longer
that semi-hidden secret place that you
go to
when you want to get away from the city.

I went yesterday
to the Food Truck Festival
thinking it would be
the sort of thing where you could try
a little of this
a little of that
of New York's (mostly) awesome food trucks.

But no.
After waiting forever to get on the ferry,
a friend and I waiting in line for a food truck
any food truck
(we sort of weren't sure which)
and after moving two spots in 20 minutes
we bailed
and went to Picnic Point
and chowed on the two
staples there
Blue Marble Ice Cream
and
the über-fantastic
Fauzia's Multi-Ethnic Heavenly Delights
(if you're on Governors Island or in the Bronx, totally check them out).

And then waiting in line to
get off the island.

It was more waiting then eating.
But if you're talking with a friend
it's not so bad.
Still, no more sorta empty Governors Island to
play in
anymore.

.and maybe I'm right.

Saw a kid today on the train
who looked
just like
Rick Astley.
(FYI: this link has over 25 million hits)

Not like, Rick Astley now
but Rick Astley plus total 80s gear on.
Pants, tee, blazer, shoes and
messy semi-mullet.

And not hipster 80s
like, teenager out of time machine 80s.
Weird Science 80s.

I loved him and
cursed
the fact that my camera battery had
just died.

If you're reading this Rick Astley kid
call me.
Your portrait artist is waiting.

.but maybe she's wrong.

Since I've been so
awful
about posting, here's a collection of my
Facebook status updates since August 8th (my last post):

• August 8th: Just gave a guy at the green market a bag of kitty litter 'cause he made fun of me.
• August 10th: Steven Slayer is my hero
• August 11th: Angry Egyptian cheese panda. Cheeeeese panda. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olLp8Cssh_M
• August 13th:  Now a employed member of society (bless this well oiled capitalist machine)
• August 16th: Anyone who's a student want to go splitsy on Adobe's Creative Design Suite CS5 with me? - you can use one serial number for up to two computers. Getting a new laptop and am really sick of my crappy hacked version of CS. Plllleeeaaassseeee?
• August 19th:  Another PS related status: So, I'm using CS3 at my job and when I use the pen tool I can't see the curved path I'm creating which makes using the pen tool, well, really hard. Help.
• August 23:  Dorkfest: First status update from my brand new laptop. His name is Sir Winesap Newton.

So really, sans the job, you
haven't been missing much.

Well, that and getting so
angry at a stranger
I gave them kitty litter.
Sometimes you have to do things
that feel good
to save your soul.