Chronicles Continued

Does this fascinate anyone else?  This link is to the news about the process of righting the Costa Concordia which was begun today.  I am enthralled by the time consumed from the accident to today, to the future.  Once it is upright, it apparently has to sit there through the winter. One human error is costing the cruise line an inordinate amount of time and money; to say nothing of the effect on the small village that has had this in their view for 20 months and counting.  One idea in one captain’s head = lives lost, untold pain and suffering, ecological damage, profit and loss and the disruption to thousands of lives.  The power of one thought executed!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2421734/Costa-Concordia-Cruise-liner-pulled-upright-lengthy-500m-operation-raise-stricken-liner-coast-Italy.html

 This hand-painted sign is on 14th Street, near 8th Avenue.  It stops me every time I see it, it doesn’t get more ‘down home country’ than this.

The City never ceases to amaze me;  the neighborhoods contained within its boundaries.  Sunday on Court St in Brooklyn.  Only Italian was spoken, the crowd was dressed in black and the procession, as previously advertised, was waiting to happen.  Men, women, children, the street was packed.

Across from each other, at the tops of many lower buildings in the Village and elsewhere, are flags flying where normally one does not see a flag.  11th remembering and statement.

The City has spoken:  No Weiner, No Spitzer.  [I’m curious to see if their marriages last]

The beams may also be sporadically switched off during the planned illumination, in order to accommodate passing flocks of birds that could be confused by the light.

Via Gothamist

They are on again this year.  There is apparently a question each year if there will be a sponsor to pay for the twin beams of light from ground zero.  I noticed them on Sunday night for this year, 2013.  It is a wonderful tribute to see and the second little picture, shows the end of the beam caught in the clouds.  It is more difficult to see the straight beams up.

More often I should report on plays attended but I figure if you wanted to know you would read a professional reviewer.  However, this evening is to be mentioned.  The playbill at the top of the picture is the typical playbill look and size, a standardized size.  The checkered square below is the playbill for “The Machine”.  So well done, exciting, illuminating and to top it off, it was produced, not at a theatre, but at the Park Avenue Armory.  An Armory.  This was a re-enacting – by a London playwright and cast- the chess games – one a day for six days- between the IBM computer Deep Blue and the Russian Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997.
Upon leaving the Armory, I was surprised to see the line up of homeless persons, outside  on Park Avenue.  It had never occurred to me that of course this is rich territory and panhandling after such a full house is astute.

 

sighting of a Mclaren.  http://www.caricos.com/cars/m/mclaren/2011_mclaren_mp4-12c/

Wow.  It was night and not enough light to give it justice, although the white certainly made it stand out.  I don’t recall having seen a ‘working-real-live-speciman’ previously.