Musings from the God of Cities

boy howdy did i have a busy weekend! i went to a mets/yankees game, moma, and the new york gay pride parade. having just gotten a new way-big memory stick for my camera and photoshop i took a ton of pictures. i apologize if the colors of my pictures have funny colors and sizes, but i'm totally new to the program. some of these pictures aren't completely work safe, depending on what kind of office you work in.

on saturday, patty katherine gallagher and i went to see a baseball game at yankee stadium


my boyfriends

mike piazza


and derek jeter were in attendance,


as was yankee manager joe torre.

not being a sports-fan, i spent most of the game combating the hot, hot heat with cold, expensive beer, and really only paid attention to what was going on on the field when the cleanup crew came out to do the YMCA


also at the game were

a handlicker


these folks,


and a handful of dudes whose wardrobe choices were a preview of what i would be seeing a lot of the following day.

saturday found patty and i basking in air conditioning at the museum of modern art


where even the terlets are modern.

wanting to save my camera's battery, i didn't really take any pictures of the art at the museum, but i did snap this picture of one of the museum-goers at patty's request:


since moma directly overlooks where some of the floats were waiting join the parade, i was able to snap some pictures from the windows including this picture of

greased up dudes

and

kyan and carson from "queer eye for the straight guy"

patty and i decided to go try to get some pictures of the queer eye guys up close when we left moma, so we figured out where they were hanging out and i took a picture with

food guru ted allen!


and arbiter of style carson kressley! both of whom were totally nice, and totally friendly. thom and kyan were nowhere to be seen, and jai was busy chatting up some hunky dancer-type. not wanting to intrude on his hook up, i didn't ask him for a picture.

in the parade were the usual assortment of leather dudes and fetishists like these dudes from the new york eagle:










these gay male s/m activists:






the husky hunks of metrobear new york




and the members of the eulenspiegel society


there were drag queens
















as well as other (literally and figuratively) colorful peeps...






including the cast from the waaaaay awesome donkey show


the lads and lasses of cheerNY




these mummers








and er... "michael jackson"


and what gay parade is complete without loads of shaved-down gym dudes?




my favorite parade participant, though, was this schmuck from yale university's gay student group who left his co-paraders to go talk on his cell phone


watching the parade was the usual assortment of fags folks







apparently manskirts are big this year... who knew?

after about 20 minutes of parade-watching, patty and i went back to my place. we grabbed some lunch, and then patty left for home. the day was still young, so i decided to head back downtown to see what was going on in the west village.

i walked through washington square park


and headed west towards the west side piers. along the way, i saw some very adorable capitalists cashing in on the queer dollar


at the pier i saw girls










guys




and everything in between






by this point my legs were aching from walking around all weekend, and my brain was sizzling from the heat and my lack of hair (even though i did generously apply sunscreen!) so i decided to head home and celebrate gay pride in my own special way: watching television, smoking a bowl and downloading porn. HAPPY PRIDE, Y'ALL!!!