Musings from the God of Cities

UPDATE: for pictures from the 2007 east village halloween dog parade in tompkins square, (as well as pictures from last week's halloween dog parade at carl schurz park) go here.

today was the 16th annual halloween dog parade in tompkins square park, in new york city's east village.

and yet again, i went to check it out and take pictures of the dogs in costumes. within a few minutes of having gotten there, i became overwhelmed with joy over what i saw. here are some reasons why:

dogs dressed as superheroes:

wonder woman dog


spider-man dog


bat-man dog

dogs dressed like famous people:

willie nelson


mr. t.


flavor flav!

people and dogs who both got dressed up:

lobster dog


degas and his ballerinas


biker dog

dogs dressed as food:

jelly belly dog


banana split dog

...and drink:

horizon milk dog

dogs who weren't being cooperative:

chinese food dog


fall leaves dog


bulldog who refused to wear his wrestling singlet while throwing shade

asian dogs:

chinese pug


sumo pug


sumo pug and his mom

dogs dressed as other animals:

seal dog


pig dog


pegasus dog


bee dog


bee bulldog


lion dog

and every possible other thing under the sun:

dog dressed up as a little girl


dog dressed up as a little boy dressed up as a giraffe


yoda dog


(p)unk dog


conjoined twin dogs


pumpkin corgi


poop factory


baby dog


fire hydrant


native american dog


cowgirl dog

after a few hours checking out the dogs in all their halloween costume glory, i was dizzy with dog love, and covered in dog slobber. all in all, this year's halloween dog parade was a devilishly good time


for more pictures i took at the dog parade, check out my flickr page.

happy halloween, y'all!

Labels: dawgsz

i know i was supposed to post pictures of dogs in costumes today, but the dog parade got rescheduled due to crappy weather. it'll be on the 28th, so expect pictures then. in the meantime, try to console yourselves with these pictures from my company's pumpkin-decorating party:

i work for an educational company, so my team's pumpkin had an educational theme:




other teams went with more cinematic themes

like this pumokin, depicting the scene from "the wizard of oz" where the wicked witch of the west melts after getting water on her.

other folks went for grossitating,


and some went for just plain awesome.

this pumpkin was created by the art department. the eyes are videos of the eyes of members of the department played on video ipods. the brain was supposed to pulse (and did, initially) but wound up not really working. still, the whole thing was a pretty awesome multi-media experience. check out the video for the full effect


the guy seen walking behind it is dave, the mastermind behind this e-jack o'lantern, and my new hero.

i was playing around with pictures from my recent trip to d.c. and noticed that some of the pictures i took in the hirshhorn museum's sculpture garden looked as if they could tell some kind of narrative story. i tried thinking up some sharp dialog for the statues, or some clever narration to explain what was going on. but then i realized i am neither sharp nor clever. perhaps some of you are? if so, please enter what you think would be some good (witty, ridiculous, tragically ludicrous, ludicrously tragic) dialog or narration to go with the stories in the comments section. the best entry. the winner wins... uhm... a vague sense of satisfaction?


1. "____________________________"



2. "____________________________"



3. "____________________________"



4. "____________________________"

p.s. yes, i do realize that i only have about 2 readers, and that no one will probably participate, but one never knows until one tries, n'est pas?

i know it's been a while since i rapped at ya, but i've been busy looking busy at my new job(!) and before that, soaking up fun before starting my new job. i took about a jillion pictures during over the past couple weeks, and i'm just now getting around to posting them up. sorry for the delay. i should be posting pretty regularly for the near future. let's pop a cork in the chatter and groove on what i saw at the (10th annual!) D.U.M.B.O. art festival. i saw some odd fauna:




pretty views of dead bodies


pretty ladies






bright colors


uhm, a lightbulb


and gay guys




the show itself was a totally killer, but my most favoritest thing i saw wasn't at the festival at all, but on the way to it. specifically, this dude walking across the manhattan bridge, being all, "it's not a pick it's scratch!"

i guess that means boogers are kosher?

as per the... youjh? yoozh? ewejz? i posted these pictures and others i took at the d.u.m.b.o. art festival on flickr.