Musings from the God of Cities

well, sort of...

walking around the u.e.s. today, i saw a crew of folks taping some future episode of the sopranos


apparently next season robert iler's character a.j. soprano goes to the puerto rican day parade with his girlfriend and her kid...





...presumably with sexy results.

you could really tell that the (cute) production crew

made sure that the set was as close to the real puerto rican day parade experience as possible by including:

puerto rican flags draped on cars,


white dudes with beach towels hanging out in front of the kosher pizzeria,


and mustachioed dudes harassing pretty girls.


since i'm nice, here's a video i took of the fake parade.

since people rarely find this site by googling anything naughtily interesting (unless you find "cupcake costume" and kate jackson titillating) i figured i'd post up my most viewed flickr pictures. on flickr, you can see how many people have looked at any one picture, and which pictures have been viewed the most. most of my most viewed pictures are of the somewhat naughty variety. since that seems to be what the people like, please enjoy these pictures of HARDCORE NUDITY:


taken at the soho dietch art parade, this is my most viewed picture, with 1,397 views as of right now. there's a bunch of other pictures just like this in my top ten most viewed, so i'm only showing this one so as not to be redundant.


this picture from last year's howl festival was the most viewed picture for the longest time until the above picture usurped and utterly trounced its standing. 881 views so far. (again, there are a few other shots of this body-painting couple that have placed high on my most viewed list.)

other popular (and by popular, i mean "people have spanked it to them") pictures from the art parade are the picture of this busty cop (536 views):


and her sexy cop friends (287 views):


you can't go wrong with greased-up muscle dudes (from the 2004 new york gay pride parade. 689 views).


other popular gay pride parade pictures include this sexy tattooed homothug (238 views):


and this guy's hairy coin-slot (335 views):


and finally, bringing up the (sexy) rear are this painting of a shirtless dude from the philadelphia museum of art (259 views):


cosplay supergirl from the new york comic book convention (312 views)


and this picture of chewing-gum nipples, which were viewed 257 times.


now to sit back, relax, and see how many people find this site by searching for "chewing-gum nipples".

i recently went to see a joseph cornell exhibit in katonah, new york, at the katonah museum of art. katonah is a lot like many other towns in westchester county. the "business district" where i got off the train consisted of a handful of useless crap stores. there were no supermarkets, or stores where you would buy stuff you'd ever need, but there was an antique cameo store, a native american tchotchkes store, and a hardware store that only sold lawn decorations. also, there's no sidewalks in suburbia, so you can't actually walk anywhere. like a sucker, i had to take a $5 cab ride to the museum which was only half a mile away. lame.

i get to the museum


and ask for a map. the dude behind the counter chuckles, and informs me that the museum is nowhere near big enough to require a map. he points to the three rooms of the museum, and tells me what exhibits are in which. that said, all of the exhibits at the museum were really well done, and very interesting. it's kinda great that such a small town had any museum at all, and i shouldn't fault it for not being MET-sized. and most importantly, they had a bunch of pieces by joseph cornell. what more could i ask for? besides the fact that i find cornell's art asthetically appealing, i like it because it seems very hopeful. cornell takes pieces of detritus, works his magic, and what was essentially garbage becomes beautiful art. he also infuses his art with the things he likes, because he likes them. i love when artists create art that they love, with mediums they love. it just seems more honest.

anywho, my pictures don't really do the cornell dioramas, boxes and collages justice, and i couldn't really get great details because of the light in the museum, but hopefully you can see joseph cornell is totally my secret dead artist boyfriend.
















there was a cornell piece in the adjacent exhibit about briefcases-as-art. (don't ask.)



the piece, "the crystal cage, (portrait of berenice)" was described thusly:
"joseph cornell produced a number of dossier or archive boxes devoted to individuals... One of Cornell's rare valise boxes, the crystal cage (portrait of berenice), was dedicated to a fictional character whose imaginary life he fleshed out with an array of photos and documents. the collection of materials is marked by an element of reverie and longing for travel and escape, themes that infused Cornell's other works."

that's some pretty cool shit, if you ask me.

fuck snakes on a plane. today i bring you maggots on the street. 'mandy, andy' and i were walking around chelsea when we came across what seemed like a whole lot of spilled white rice on the street. i think it was 'mandy who pointed out that it wasn't rice, it was maggots. i wanted to get a whole bunch of pictures, and maybe some video of the little buggers squirming around, but the whole scene was so nauseating (the smell generated by enough old garbage to feed all those maggots was unpleasant at best) that i had to vamoose after the quick video i took below. and then i trew up a little. anyways, enjoy the video!

sometimes i hate my neighborhood

and the douchbaggery that goes on there.

sometimes i love my neighborhood

and the folks who try to make it more lovely.

a few weeks ago i went to MOMA to check out and take pictures of the dada exhibit they had going on there. once i got there, i realized it might be behoovey of me to take pictures of the loads of attractive european tourist lads who were visiting the museum. alas, like so many of the plans of mice and men often do, mine went awry. first off, the dada exhibit wasn't as exciting as i'd hoped. this is most likely because everything i know about dada i learned in comic books. also the pictures of foreign sexy people didn't really come out 'cause the lighting conditions in the museum aren't conducive to my sneaky picture-taking ways. ah well, i got over my problems pretty quickly for two reasons: i didn't have to pay to get into the museum 'cause i'd gone in on a friday afternoon when it's free, and i love moma gift-shop. in fact, i love most museum gift-shops. when i was little, my dad used to take me to the museum of natural history pretty often. the highlight of each visit was going to the gift-shop for some silly toy or book. these early adventures cemented in me a love of both museums and their gift-shops. it also doesn't hurt that the moma store is full of funny shapes, bright colors and shiny, shiny objects that my racoon-like mind is instantly attracted to. objects like these:


farm animal toys


plastic bowl


pitcher


plates


basket-box


trivet


metal bowl

oh, and bee-tea-double-you, all this stuff is available on the moma store website, obvs.

this year i returned to the deitch art parade in soho to see what was going on in the world of art parades. apparently this is what's going on:

body-paint is big this year




as is semi-naked bike riding




people are confusing


and confused


cops are sexy


and parades are fun for everybody, except the dude who has to clean up the confetti and hispter dung


more pictures from the deitch soho art parade available on my flickr site here.

careful readers will have noticed that it's been a while since i've posted. what was i doing? visiting the greater new england area, doye. dw has some family up in maine, and i have some friends up in boston, so took a little vay-cay up there to visit err'body. this is what i saw while i was up there:

fun art at the museum of fine arts in boston:










in brookline (MA), i saw keeper, the demonic,


at times cross-eyed,


and altogether totes adorbs pup of my friends d&c


after taxachussets, we headed up to scarborough, maine where we hung out with dw's family and friends




and generally took in scenic vistas




and other pretty things


the highlight, stragely enough for my child-hating self, was hanging out with lil' dyl, the 20 month old son on dw's best friend K. i took a video of him playing with a balloon. i was hoping he'd accidentally burst the balloon and i could get his reaction on video, but it didn't happen. therefore, there's no real point to the video, other than the fact that dyl's very, very cute and charming, if you're into that kind of thing.