“And finally: How a public display of affection became very, very public”
tune of “It’s In His Kiss (Shoop Shoop Song)” - a short version
Where’s that kiss from? I wanna know!
How did they find them to start the show?
Is he a V-I-P?
- Oh, no, he;s no celeb!
Does she work in TV?
- Oh no, just for the web.
Photogs from S-N- L [shoot, shoot, shoot!]
Thought it’s really swell.
They used that kiss! (It couldn’t miss)
Was the photo staged?
- Oh, no, it’a real and how!
Hey, are they engaged?
- Oh no, well not for now.
So we yell hooray.
For their P-D-A
They used that kiss! (Kiss Is pure bliss!)
Oh oh, they used that kiss! (Kiss looks like this)
DON'T SOCK IT TO HIM
I know a foot fetishist
Whose porn collection's neat:
A thousand and one pictures
Of famous naked feet.
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Geez, that makes me feel absolutely ancient. In 1954 I was exploring the far reaches of Oakland wearing my coon skin hat and packing my Fanner Fifty. Can you still find caps?
AGES AGO
Asked what he wanted on his 90th birthday,
Harry Shapiro pondered,
Lighting the candles that stood at attention,
Smiling as his memory wandered.
"To be 75," he replied at long last,
Eyes all ablaze with rascality,
Possibly thinking of rollicking times
In many an imaginary locality.
"What did he wish for at 75?"
Asked a guest who considered him nifty.
Harry's wife couldn't help but guffaw:
"He said that he wanted to be 50.
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The “kissing story” brought back a sweet memory from the Winter of either 1963 or 1964. My boyfriend st the time, Paul, and I were on a bench in front of the New York Public Library on 5th Avenue. We were kissing and a photographer from the Daily News saw us and took a picture. It was published in the Daily News with the caption “Dreaming of a Wife Christmas?”
We were thrilled!
I have never to able to find the photo from from the Daily News archives.
And I never married Paul
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The Charles White exhibit at MOMA is outstanding and should be seen -- but only if you can stand the crowds.
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Just another example of the deleterious effects of machine run Democratic politics in New York City and Queens specifically.
Even if Mr. Brown upheld his position with the utmost competence and honor, no public servant should serve in such an important position for over two decades. And no public servant would - if the system was fair and accessible to all voters.
How can we, as progressives, rail against the injustice of voter suppression by Republicans in other states when voter suppression and disenfranchisement has been, and continues to be practiced in our own back yard.
There should be an investigation into how DAs are elected in Queens and elsewhere in the 5 boroughs.
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Great piece on DA Brown, but you missed the news of La Marina suing the city for $2M in damages.
To recap, a Parks concession owned by people who are literally on record for trying to bribe city officials, is now suing the city for lost business. Because after six years the bribes are no longer effective and they have to actually follow rules like not seizing city streets for off-the-books cash valet parking or running massive illegal ticketed concerts on parkland? You can't make this stuff up.
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I remain appalled that Mr. de Blasio believes that my hard-earned money, such as it is, does not belong in my hands. And that's because I am very certain that it will be my middle-class money, meant for my retirement, that he'd like to redistribute, and not that of his wealthy developer friends who will bankroll his political aspirations as well as his own eventual retirement.
On the other hand, the Metropolitan Diary entry was charming. Born in 1954, I nevertheless remember my family watching both footage of the assassination and the funeral of JFK, and the moon walk, on our black-and-white television set. Despite the later horrors of the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, despite Kent State in 1970, and -- always -- the Vietnam War, there was still hope. Or maybe it was because I was young. Looking at our country under Donald Trump, looking at our city under Bill de Blasio, I do not, nowadays, feel much hope.
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@B. - about that Diary item. Stop me if I've told this here before, or maybe stop reading if if you've read me telling it before. (I did hear Pat Kiernan on NY1 in the papers not long ago report than by a certain age, we start to morph or embellish our own life experiences into fake-news versions, so I may tell it differently than last time. :)
When I was in law school, a dorm neighbor and I realized we were the same age, and he asked when I was born. I said May 1960. He said he was born in November 1959, then added, "You missed the 50s, man. They were great!"
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Hah! Thank you for telling this (to me, anyway) new story.
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I am also an Archbishop Molloy graduate, but well before 1991. Class of 1969 - way before it became co-ed. I remember the first time I saw pictures in a fund raising newsletter that showed female students. It brought a smile to my face - a welcome change. Go Stanners!
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1991. the year I moved to Queens and have been living here happily ever since.
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"He also promised to seize buildings owned by scofflaw landlords, a plan that will almost certainly meet legislative and legal hurdles."
This was the howler, and I was surprised no one there even giggled at the thought that these would be handed over to NYCHA.
Something had to have happened since the last election. I actually did vote for him for another term. It feels like a bait and switch of some sort. (At least with the Governor, I sense he's not adding new bad traits, just figuring since we didn't have a problem overall taking the bad with the good before the election, there's a logic that he'd figure no particular need to change.). I am wondering if the press has just gotten more observant in general, but the Mayor does seem different.
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@Freddie
To me, Freddie, he seems the much the same. He's the guy who protested the closing of Long Island College Hospital and then enthusiastically supported its demise -- and the building of condos in its stead -- who vowed he'd protect our libraries and then fervently supported the razing of the Cadmon Plaza Library and the building of a tower and an inferior library in its stead; who got Maimonides Hospital to create a six-figure job out of thin air for his wife.
The man is money-hungry and amoral. He is the bizarro-Trump.
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