Wednesday, December 31, 2008
JERKS ARE EVERYWHERE
Photo: Nedward "Ned Flanders". Jerks at Vesey Street. 9/11 2008. Manhattan. NYC
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
HERE'S TO YOU
Photo: Nedward "Ned Flanders". September of 2008. A rainy afternoon in Times Square. ;Manahatta. NYC
Friday, December 12, 2008
I'll be back tomorrow
Many's the time I've been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and I've often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
But I'm all right, I'm all right
I'm just weary to my bones
Still, you don't expect to be
Bright and bon vivant
So far away from home
So far away from home
Friday, December 05, 2008
CONEY ISLAND. -Oh, please, stand by me-
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we see
No I won't be afraid
No I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
So darling, darling stand by me
Oh, now, now, stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me
If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountain should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry
No I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
And darling, darling stand by me
Oh, stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me
Photo:Nedward "Ned" Flanders. April of 2007. Coney Island Boardwalk. Brooklyn. NYC
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
UNA VERDAD MUY INCÓMODA
¿Acaso no han oído hablar de Al Gore?
http://www.elconfidencial.com/cache/2007/10/17/50_gobierno_gasta_dinero_comprar_euros_siete_corte_ingles.html
PD: No vendré a cenar. Me quedo en Wisconsin.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
SING US A SONG, -you're the Piano Man-
Paul es un agente inmobiliario que nunca ha pensado en casarse y habla con Davy, que todavía está en la Marina, donde probablemente seguirá de por vida. La camarera habla con el político mientras el hombre de negocios se emborracha lentamente. Comparten una bebida que se llama soledad. Es mejor que beber a solas...
Buen público para un sábado. El dueño me sonríe. Sabe que es a mí a quien a quien han venido a ver para olvidarse de la vida por un momento. El piano suena a carnaval y el micrófono huele a cerveza. La gente se sienta en la barra, echan monedas en mi bote y dicen : ¿Hombre, qué tal? Cántanos una canción, pianista. Tenemos ganas de escuchar tus melodías. Nos haces sentir tan bien...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY -and happy thanksgiving day-
Santayana, Ippolito -sing us a song, you're thatguitarman- , Sinatra, Kitty, Travis, Jimmy Conway, Alvy Singer and Annie Hall, Feltman and Handwerker -bringing the menu- , Paul and Art, Brooklyn Bridge and Bleecker Street, Virginia -of course there is a Santa Claus!!!-,Crosby, Stills -and Nash too- , NBC, Street Lamps of Central Park, Hearnshead -the place where I belong-, Old Yankee Stadium and DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, Ruth,... Gehrig, Hell's Kitchen, Nelson, Obama -you're not Jack Kennedy- and McCain -never give up!!!- , Ellis Island, and Emma Lazarus with the Statue of Liberty -lift your lamp, please-, Holden Cauldfield -what about the ducks this winter?- , Takeru -take off your hands from the dogs!!- , Great State of Wisconsin.... What a party!!! Thanks for coming.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
A TIMELESS SONG
You who are on the road, Must have a code that you can live by
So become yourself, Because the past is just a good bye.
Teach your children well,Their father's hell did slowly go by,
Feed them on your dreams, The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, If they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh, And know they love you.
You, of tender years, Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
So please help them with your youth, They seek the truth before they can die.
Teach your parents well, Their children's hell will slowly go by,
Feed them on your dreams, The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
Tú ya estás en el camino y debes seguir un código de vida
Así que se tú mismo, porque el pasado es sólo un adiós.
Enseña bien a tus hijos, el infierno del padre debe alejarse lentamente
Aliméntales con tus sueños, aquél que ellos elijan, lo reconocerás
Nunca les preguntes por qué, llorarías si te lo dijeran.
Sólo mírales y suspira, - ellos te aman ...-
Y Tú, joven de tierna edad,
que desconoces los miedos con los que crecieron tus padres,
Ayúdales desde tu juventud, Ellos buscan la verdad antes de morir.
Enseña bien a tus padres, el infierno de sus hijos pasará rápidamente,
y aliméntales con tus sueños, aquél que ellos elijan, lo reconocerás
Nunca les preguntes por qué, si te lo dijeran llorarías,
así que simplemente míralos, y suspira, -ellos te aman...-
Thursday, November 20, 2008
RICHMOND
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No se cuánto tiempo pasé recorriendo Wall Street en busca de una escuela de la que nadie nunca había oido hablar. Acabé preguntándole a un policía , que contestó mientras negaba con la cabeza: “No hay escuelas en Wall Street”
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“¿St. Mark’s Place ? No debe estar por aquí”
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No. Lo iba a intentar ¿Cómo renunciar a aquel viaje diario, a aquel horizonte, a la Estatua de la Libertad y a Ellis Island y al recuerdo de los millones de personas que por allí habían pasado?...
Monday, November 17, 2008
ONE YEAR OF LOVE
Flanders Never Quit, Flanders Never Surrender, Flanders Never Hide From History, Flanders Make History. Thanks, and God Bless You.
Sincerely Yours: Nedward "Ned" Flanders.
Friday, November 07, 2008
HUDSON RIVER
"A lo largo del río hay un gran tráfico de pieles de castores, nutrias, zorros, osos, visones, pumas y otros animales por el estilo. El territorio es excelente y agradable, lleno de bosques de maderas nobles y de vides, y sólo requiere del trabajo del hombre y de la industria para convertirlo en una de las mejores y más fructuosas tierras a este lado del mundo". -Johan de Laet. New World, 1625-
Photo: Ned Flanders. August of 2006. Pier 45 at Hudson River Park. Manhattan. NYC.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
TU QUOQUE, WISCONSIN?
"Today is obviously one of the most difficult days in the history of Wisconsin. The tragedy that we're all undergoing right now is something that we've had nightmares about. My heart goes out to all of the innocent people of this State". (Joseph Fitzpatrick Fitzgerald Fitzhenry "Joe" Quimby , Mayor of Springfield)
Sunday, November 02, 2008
EAST RIVER
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Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!
Frolic on, crested and scallop-edg’d waves!
Gorgeous clouds of the sun-set! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me;
Cross from shore to shore, countless crowds of passengers!
Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta!—stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn!
¡Sigue fluyendo, río! ¡Avanza con la pleamar y retrocede con la bajamar!
¡Retozad, olas festoneadas!
Nubes suntuosas del ocaso, ¡rociadme con vuestro esplendor,
rociad a los hombres y mujeres de generaciones venideras!
¡Cruzad de una a otra orilla, incontables pasajeros!
¡En pie, altos mástiles de Mannahatta!- ¡En pie, bellas colinas de Brooklyn!
(Walt Whitman. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry)
Photo: Ned Flanders. September 2008. Williamsburg Bridge from East River Park. NYC
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
How you dare?
Sunday, October 12, 2008
An amazing trip. Maybe next year...
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.
Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans
Thursday, October 09, 2008
SO LONG NELSON
Thursday, October 02, 2008
QUICKLY, I WANT MY OWN BAILOUT
Where's the integrity?
Where's the love...
And, where's that money going?
Where is our common sense?
Lord, I miss intelligence!!!
We kinda made a mockery
of the word'democracy'!
Where's the love...
And, where's that money going???
Lyrics: That Guitarman from Central Park
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
YOU WILL BE MISSED
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Does everythin' still remains the same ?
A) Not at all. Coming soon: The end of Coney Island. Ask Thor Equities and Michael Bloomberg why. Don't be lazy. Everything's on Google. Everything.
Photo. Ned Flanders. Stielwell Avenue. Coney Island, Brooklyn, NYC. September of 2008
Photo : Ned Flanders. Subway Station 161 St. Bronx. NYC. September of 2008
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
But in the mean while you can do lots of things: Olympic Games, wash your car, read this book, love that girl, buy a gun, quit smoking, write your long long memories , waste your summer praying in vain...running away?
Photo: Ned Flanders. Summer of 2006. Somewhere in NYC Subway
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
REALLY?
Here's to you, Ehud and Eldad.
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom, for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
I see skies of blue, and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces, of people going by
I see friends shaking hands, sayin', "How do you do?"
They're really sayin', "I love you"
I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow
They'll learn much more, than I'll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world ???
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Photo: Flanders, May 2007.Slow traffic at Central Park West, NYC
Friday, July 04, 2008
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit oh Happiness
Thursday, July 03, 2008
IN THE EVE...
....
And I dreamed I was dying
I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high up above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying
We come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age's most uncertain hours
and sing an American tune
Oh, and it's alright, it's all right, it's all right
You can't be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day
And I'm trying to get some rest
That's all I'm trying to get, some rest
American Tune. Paul Simon 1973.
Complet Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/simon+and+garfunkel/american+tune_20124677.html
Monday, June 23, 2008
summer in the city
Thursday, June 12, 2008
EAST SIDE STORY
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
that's gonna be the end ... of everything
Thursday, May 29, 2008
I’ll be sittin' when the evenin' comes...
Look like nothing's gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same, yes
Sittin' here resting my bones
And this loneliness won't leave me alone
It's two thousand miles I roamed
Just to make this dock my home
Now, I'm just gonna sit at the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
Photo: Flanders. Coney Island Boardwalk. August 2006
Monday, May 26, 2008
From California to the New York Island
As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me
As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!
In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
E PLURIBUS HOT DOG
Se estima que hasta los años 50 Nathan's llegó a vender más de 100 millones de perros calientes cada verano. Incluso ahora, cuando Coney Island ya no es ni la sombra de lo que fue, el establecimiento de Nathan's en Surf Avenue vende más de dos millones de hot dogs al año. A nivel de la ciudad, y a pesar de las incursiones del falafel, el kebab y el gyro, los carros de venta de hot dog suponen más de un 70 % de los 4.000 autorizados por el Departamento de Salud Pública.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
THE EMPEROR OF THE CITY
Saturday, May 03, 2008
YOU KNOW WHY...
Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion - er, no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. - Yes. - To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. - Er, tsch, no, missed out something. - Chapter One. He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles. - No, no, corny, too corny for a man of my taste. Can we ... can we try and make it more profound? - Chapter One. He adored New York City. To him, it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. The same lack of individual integrity that caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning the town of his dreams in ... - no, that's a little bit too preachy. I mean, you know, let's face it, I want to sell some books here. - Chapter One. He adored New York City, although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. How hard it was to exist in a society desensitized by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage ... - Too angry. I don't want to be angry. - Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. - I love this. - New York was his town, and it always would be ...
Monday, April 28, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE ON THE EARTH
El 21 de junio de 1939 los Yankees anunciaron oficialmente su retirada. Conscientes del cariño que el público neoyorquino sentía hacia Gehrig, se decidió prepararle la mejor de las despedidas posibles. La fecha elegida fue el 4 de julio de 1939 y el lugar, el Yankee Stadium. Allí se le realizó un homenaje al que acudieron más de 60.000 personas. Tras recibir numerosos regalos, que a duras penas podía ya sostener en sus debilitados brazos y de ser retirado definitivamente su uniforme con el número 4 , Lou tomó el micrófono y, con el tono y las palabras de quien siente la proximidad de la muerte pronunció entre sollozos uno de esos discursos improvisados que erizan el vello y que es considerado el momento más emotivo en la historia del deporte de los Estados Unidos:
"Queridos fans: Durante las dos últimas semanas habréis estado leyendo sobre lo que me pasa. A pesar de ello, hoy me considero el hombre más afortunado sobre la faz de la tierra. Después de diecisiete años sobre los campos de baseball, no he recibido de vosotros más que comprensión y apoyo... Hasta los New York Giants, a los que siempre he deseado romperles el brazo –y viceversa- me han entregado una placa ..., y eso significa algo. Todos los trabajadores del estadio y los cuidadores del césped me han entregado un trofeo,... y eso es algo grande. Tengo una suegra maravillosa que se pone de mi parte incluso cuando discuto con su propia hija, y eso significa mucho, y un padre y una madre que se han esforzado toda su vida para darme una educación,... eso es una bendición. ...Y tengo una esposa fuerte como una torre y que muestra más corage del que jamás soñé que existía ...y eso es lo mejor que me ha pasado..... Así que me despido... tal vez me hayan dado un duro golpe, pero todavía me quedan un montón de cosas por vivir. Gracias" .
Cuentan que ni uno solo de los asistentes al acto pudo contener las lágrimas y que hasta su enemigo irreconciliable, el gran Babe Ruth, con el que no se hablaba desde hacía diez años, le abrazó y le dijo: "I Love You, Truly".
El 2 de junio de 1941, dieciséis años después de reemplazar a Wally Pip como primera base, Henry Louis Gehrig murió en su casa del Bronx. Tenía 37 años. El entonces Alcalde , Fiorello LaGuardia, ordenó que todas las banderas de la ciudad de Nueva York ondearan a media asta. That's the Lou Gehrig's History. No hablaré más de los Yankees. I promise. Well, in fact, I'll just try...
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=7vya1NrHyXE