I stole this dude's soul by taking this picture. ;) They ain't kidding when they say NY's the capital of cultural diversity.
Well...I must admit I've had to take a bit of slack over the last year for slagging the US as much as I do. But take a GOOD HARD LOOK at what's hanging on this clothesline in the Bronx. I sure do hope those colours DON'T run...
Okay, so maybe THIS was just supposed to be a picture of the Empire State Building. But it got overexposed and ended up looking like a scene out of Ghostbusters. Not really New York at it's weirdest, but I kinda like it anyway.
Two snapshots from the infamous Hugh Grant Circle in my cousins' own PAAAHHHKCHESTAHHHH! It IS a different Hugh Grant, but we don't have to tell anyone that. It's hard enough to get them to believe these signs aren't doctored...
The signature New York attitude at work on 5th avenue.
Heh...and people call ME a foreigner. Lookee here at what I found on the Ellis Island Ferry.
The homeless problem is exceedingly bad, despite the tireless efforts of Mayor Giuliani. Here, a woman who shall remain nameless sifts through the rubbish in the Bronx's 46th precinct house for scraps to eat.
Too bad she didn't know about the Jello at Times Square. Even comes with it's own colossal spoon...
The universal language : MacDonalds.
No doubt about it, New York's a politically-charged city. Everybody's got an opinion and they've each got their own, distinctly N.Y. way of expressing it.
"Simon says make an ass of yourself in Battery Park..."
I've heard of monkeys that dance and do sign language, but this...this is ridiculous. But Sr Patricia said I needed all the prayers I can get, so...
It was probably America's need to compete with the Germans in the car making department after the wild success of the new Beetle that let to this masterpiece I spied down at the Seaport. Wiiiicked!
In Chinatown, Confucius say : live in housing project!
Who says a little town like Kenmare has to remain unknown to a big city like New York? Chinatown residents know it about as well as any of us.
...And if you want to REALLY get ironic...how's this? HENRY STREET also in Chinatown?
Talk about embarrassing. Imagine being immortalised in Woodlawn cemetery like THIS. There's nothin' sadder than a dead schmuck.
Speaking of dead....I SEE DEAD PEOPLE!...or a dead person, rather. Jekyll & Hyde's on 6th avenue in the city boasts the worlds oldest doorman.
And if you think he's something, check out his cousins on the company jeep....
Back up to the Bronx we go...to see the exhibit they had to get rid of in order to build the Congo gorilla forest. Just as well, anyway, I think the gorillas are smarter.
Also in the Bronx Zoo I found THIS brilliant sign. Unfortunately they say NOTHING about what will keep them from shitting on your head. I suppose SOME things have to be learnt the hard way...
And while we're at the zoo...this isn't actually WEIRD, either, but it's about as ironic as those Kenmare signs. (The disembodied hand belongs to Trixie)
New York might be a war zone of sorts, but you don't exactly see THIS sorta thing every day. This, if you did not already know, is a Stealth bomber. (No, no...New York and the rest of the US haven't one to war just yet, it was part of the spectacle at OpSail 2000. More pix from OpSail are right here.)
To most people, this just looks like the very overdecorated back of a van. To the Figginins, however, it is a huge, flashing message... *grins wickedly and dodges the bullets*
Daragh gets apprehended by the police. This isn't weird; in fact it's almost expected. But I still couldn't resist posting it here.
Yet another specimen from the wild and wacky world of Woodlawn. To answer your questions, NO I didn't do that to the statue and NO the kid in the grave hadn't been beheaded.
Way to keep it clean. Write on it with spray paint. ;)
More on the way....keep yer pants on...