© Vincenzo Aiosa
October, 2009:
National LGBT Equality March – Not a Waste of Time Barney Frank, Unless We All Shoot the Moon!
Human Rights Campaign Headquarters © Frank H. Jump
Shoot the Moon! - Admiral David G Farragut Statue in District Of Columbia County, DC © Frank H. Jump
Actress Cynthia Nixon © Frank H. Jump
Vincenzo with Democratic NYC City Council Member Daniel Dromm © Frank H. Jump
Vote November 3rd! – Democrat Daniel Dromm for NYC City Council
Barbara Snow with GLSEN in front of the White House - © Frank H. Jump
Members of GLSEN in front of White House - Creating Safer Schools for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered People - © Frank H. Jump
Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network – GLSEN
Brendan Fay -ILGO- Rosaria Aiosa, Vincenzo Aiosa & Barbara Snow - Marching with Marriage Equality NY © Frank H. Jump
Marriage Equality New York – MENY dot US
Frank & Vincenzo in front of the Capitol Building - National LGBT Equality March - October 11, 2009
Frank & Vincenzo in front of the Capitol Building - National LGBT Equality March - October 11, 2009
Favorite quote of the day: “If we give equal rights to gays, everyone will want them!”
BECOME A CITIZEN LOBBYIST – NO EXCUSES – noexcuses.hrc.org
Call your representatives and insist on repealing DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), ending DADT (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy in the US Military) & Passing ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act)
Barney, I love you but I think you are 100% wrong about this march being a waste of time. The 1979 March was instrumental in raising my awareness and sharpening my political focus. EVERY generation needs to assemble, march & create networks for as long as we are marginalized. Every one of us needs to become a citizen lobbyist. COME OUT! GET INVOLVED! LOBBY!
Frank: Gay Rights March a “Waste of Time” – CBS
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Brush Up Business with Paint, Paste, Paper & Push – Tribeca, NY
© Gianna Narduzzo & Sandro Pavesio
Previously posted on Fading Ad Campaign website.
Taken in 1998 © Frank H. Jump
The sign uncovered at Reade Street and West Broadway in downtown New York City and described in Paul Goldberger’s May 14 appraisal of “Signs of Lost Times” may have “confounded city historians for years,” but it was clear to me the moment I saw it. “Brush Up Business With Paint, Paste, Paper, Push” is an advertisement for outdoor advertising itself — an ad for ads, if you will. In other (more modern) words: “Improve your business with outdoor billboards” (which are painted, pasted and papered). Why ‘Push’? For alliterative purposes only. “Push” means “sell.” Which is what outdoor advertising has been doing ever since, and very well at that. ROBERT REAUME President, Outdoor Advertising Association of Canada Toronto, May 19, 1994
Other references & links:
Broadway – The Best Known Address in the Entertainment World – Longacre Square, Manhattan
1650 Broadway © Frank H. Jump
Related links:
- F.Y.I. – New York Times – By MICHAEL POLLAK – Published: October 17, 2004
- Streets You Crossed Blog – Have I Stayed Too Long @ the Fair?
- Flickr – by Ventolin
- JFK’s PicPerDay
Autumn Pocono Toadstool – Paddenstoel
Taken with iPhone © Frank H. Jump
Taken with iPhone © Frank H. Jump
Sometimes the iPhone camera surprises me.
The terms “Mushroom” and “Toadstool” go back centuries and were never precisely defined, nor was there consensus on application.
The term “toadstool” was often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form. Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the terms tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole, and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns.
The word has apparent analogies in Dutch padde(n)stoel (toad-stool/chair, mushroom) and German Krötenschwamm (toad-fungus, alt. word for panther cap). Others have proposed a connection with German “Todesstuhl” (lit. “death’s chair”). Since Tod is a direct cognate to death, in that case it would be a German borrowing. – Wikipedia
Suydam & Onderdonk – Influential Dutch Families in Green-Wood, Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump
Richard Suydam Genealogy – THE OLD MERCHANTS OF NEW YORK CITY – Second Series – By Walter Barrett, Clerk – 1863
© NY Times
© Google Books
History of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch church of Breuckelen
© Frank H. Jump
