24 August 2004 Grafiiti in the Village: "Osama Bin Bush" with the 'bush' scribbled out.
25 August 2004 The Journalism School at Columbia and Jess' old dorm on the left.
24 August 2004 Jess says, "look at the cute old short buildings! oh my god! they're so short!" in Chelsea
25 August 2004 Free flyers. One for "The Republican Sex Party." Yikes. Keep it on the down low. I wonder if David Brock ever went to one of these? What about Huffington?
25 August 2004 There's a disco ball hanging from thr ceiling of the Big Cup coffee house in Chelsea. It has free wifi.
25 August 2004 How did Bruno get to be the King of Ravioli? It looks distrubingly like the blob. Raviolo should not be anthropomorphized, especially not with a crown.
25 August 2004 The post office across the street from Madison Square gardens has police motor homes all next to it on one side and trailers in front of it.
25 August 2004 The Republicans are coming! Trailers on the left. Pedestrian ramp on blue corssing the street right ahead.
25 August 2004 Police barricades line the sidewalks in the areas near Madison Square Gardens. There's a news van on the left.
25 August 2004 What's in all those trailers?
25 August 2004 Republican signage.
25 August 2004 Blue tarps over the pedestrian bridge means they never even have to /see/ the unwashed masses.
25 August 2004 News cans all down the next block. Police vans on this one.
25 August 2004 Police barricades, trailers. I'm walking around the perimeter of Madison Square Gardens.
25 August 2004 I asked a cop where the "free speech zone" was. He said, "gee I dunno. why don't you ask your congressman?" It's down the street.
25 August 2004 Gopconvention.com: not a particularly exciting website.
25 August 2004 So Jess and I ducked out of the narrow blockaded streets and, um, went to Macy's. It was mobbed.
25 August 2004 Wall to wall people. I've never seen such a crouded store.
25 August 2004 Yo! Brooklyn!
25 August 2004 Aaron on the way to rehersal. Energized from having Jess and I over for dinner.
25 August 2004 Weird looking tain coming down the tracks. Funny things move along the subway late at night.
25 August 2004 All of the Fox News ads had grafitti on them. this one featured devil-markings on O'Reilley, a cross on the head of Hannity (or is it Colmes? who is who?) and "Liar" scribbled around in varios spots. Other defaced ads call into question the "fair and balanced" slogan and call the pundits "fascists."
26 August 2004 There is an important time frame after her shower in which Jess MUST apply makeup to her nose or else it will be too late. Yvette and I gathered to watch.
26 August 2004 The specially timed makeup is applied.
26 August 2004 Yvette told me to take this picture, so I'm posting it despite it's out-of-focusness. She is fully clothed. The lid is down.
26 August 2004 As seen in Seinfeld. The Ruben isn't very good.
26 August 2004 There was a farmar along broadway right next to the gate to Columbia.
26 August 2004 It was NOT tamater heaven. It was late in the day. But still... Could I really live in a place without tamater heaven?
26 August 2004 Liz and Dora made dinner.
26 August 2004 We drank wine out of jars and dipper bread into olive oil with garlic.