especially if he's part of a "Drive Out the Bush Regime" demo

marching up 8th Avenue this afternoon

led by some of the youngest revolutionaries I've ever seen

the youth in question looking particularly endearing stopped by a flat tire at 21st Street

in between the art 2005

A quiet moment within a physical break between dealer booths on Pier 92 Saturday.

We ran into Larry Auerbach and his little friend yesterday afternoon in Williamsburg. The dog was very much into his costume, so any sign of affection was totally out of the question.

It just never seems like the right greeting for this dark holiday, but here's a Happy Halloween to all of us!

More autumn enthusiasts in our courtyard garden.

Just about the time the gardeners should be turning out the annuals and preparing our building's courtyard garden for winter, these beauties [Salvia Leucantha] show up and ask for their time in the low sun.

First sighted by Barry late this afternoon, just about a block away from Bertrand Russell's pickup truck.

Further to the right on this North 10th Street wall is the exposition,

FORGET
PATRIOTISM
SUPPORT
HUMANISM

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970)

Note: the colors in this image have absolutely not been manipulated.

We're back from Berlin, and tomorrow afternoon [Saturday] Barry and I will be installed as part of a panel assembled to discuss "The Art of Collecting" at the Affordable Art Fair.

See the AAF site for details of the program, put together by Janet Phelps.

just say no

In the U.S. we can't get very excited about protesting our outrageous invasion and destruction of virtually powerless nations and peoples who present no threat to us whatsoever, but in Germany a good many citizens have always questioned whether it's moral even to posess an army in the first place.

Today is the 50th anniversary of Germany's very controversial decision to re-arm after the Second World War. Barry and I happened upon this spirited demonstration marching down Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse tonight. The sign reads something like:

BLOW TAPS AND SAY ITS OVER!
50 years of Bundeswehr
are 50 years too many

UPDATE: [from EXPATICA]

BERLIN - Soldiers held a torch-lit parade late Wednesday outside the Reichstag parliament building to mark the modern German military's 50th birthday, accompanied by protests with anti-war activists shouting "Soldiers are murderers".

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Police said that 1,200 protesters turned out for the event. Some scuffled with police and threw stones, but no major violence was reported.