My friend Doug, just being Doug

On a recent trip to Puerto Rico Doug and his wife Carolyn met a bee in a kayak, a cat named yoda and had fun in a small turbo prop airplane.

Cool Modular homes

As the home boom continues to serge, the post claimed today that home sales reached another record high, modular home designers are working on hip new concepts under the radar. The pictured wee homes are just one of the ultra modern, one room dwellings that are being produced around teh globe. Look to see stackable, reconfigurable and "add on" models to start popping up in magazines and newspapers. These low cost alternatives allow a buyer to put teh home virtually anywhere. The cost of these homes start as low as $65,000. Granted, you can get carried away and create a $1 million+ modular palace but that is defeatin g the purpose. Most homes come with heating and electric installed all you need to do is buy the water heater and hook up the circuit breaked and line from the street.

Fabprefab is a website dedicated to the latest concepts and production designs.

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Industrial Deciduous

Brilliant! The perfect mix of city and country. These are the types of projects this city needs to do. Turn some old unused architechture into a beautiful mix of industrial history and seasonally, regenerating life. The plan is to turn the old westside el tressel into a 250,000 sq/ft pedestrian park.

The site has tons of pics and maps on the plan. The first section to be transformed is from 15th st. to Gansevort. There is a great documentary film on the site all about the highline that's totally worth the 5 minutes. Also check out the highline teams designs or check out the group that has organized the effort and maybe lend a hand.

Shea Day 2005 — Thanks Tim!

It's good to be back in NY. Good friends, Good food and OK baseball. Come on, we weren't in the Bronx.

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The Atkins Monster

Cookie Monster, yes,from Sesame Street, was seen putting a limit on the number of cookies a person should consume. In a recent episode of Sesame Street Cookie Monster said that it was good to eat cookies some of the time but not good to eat cookies all the time. He now refers to it as a "Sometimes food" in a new song. Aparently it is in reaction to the continued pressure form parents to not teach our children to eat poorly.

CAN YOU SHUT THE "F" UP! We grew up on cookie monster. He has been Cookie Monster for years. I am not fat and neither is my brother. I do not have an imaginary friend that looks like 6 people in a brown elephant bag. I am not grouchy to people who pass me on the street. I am also not a gay man living with another gay man who has a facination with rubber duckies. Not that there is anything wrong with any of these things.

How can something that was OK for us now be BAD for the kids of today. Maybe it's because no one is around to teach them anything anymore. Sesame Street and Barney have become major learning tools instead of entertainment programming. Go teach your children the difference between their, there and the're Go teach them that cookies are snacks not meals. go teach them people have choices and each person may choose a different path(ie-Eat cookies all the time or Never eat cookies) Play with them. Recite the alphabet. Teach them. They need you.

Let cookie monster eat cookies and reinforce it with the idea that "humans" eat them sometimes. Cookie "monsters" eat them ALL times. That's the whole idae behind the cookie monster in the first place. Check out the story on cnn.com Click this

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To all the blabbermouth's, "Shut the F%$# up"

Why is it that gossip has become a second business within certain groups of friends. Ranting about people behind their backs is one thing but actually, purposfully, pushing stories around for the sake of drama has crossed our synapses one too many times. It is now getting us in trouble elsewhere. Keeping our mouths shut has become a problem in even the slightest bits of secrecy. The practical joke is in jeoprody of dying because of this blabbermouth syndrom. I guess like a good theif, tell noone and noone will know. Therefore, no one can blow anything but you.

So, people, shut your mouths and think before you open them for the sake of good old fashioned fun. We are all friends here. No one should have anything to worry about. Noone is out to get them. So sometimes the secret is for a reason. Note this definition, entry 6. Click this

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every5minutes-April 09, 2005

This was me wandering from Brooklyn to Manhattan on the first killer Saturday of spring. The city peeps were everywhere. I hit a street fair, sneaker store and had a turkey leg(my fav) for lunch. Towards the end of the day I popped into a juice bar on irving and saw Jimmie Fallon making time with some young actress. Ohhh Jimmie, you go boy. No picture because I wasn't going to "F" with his game. Enjoy.

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Those old videos will bit you in the ass

A last minute post for today. I was foolin' around on the web looking for some info on DJ format and I found this directors site. Apparently he did some of their videos. Also he has done a bunch of commercials, Levis, Burger King to name a few. But the best part of his site are these three clips from when he was young. Thanks Ruben.

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It's Spring! Don't be left out

Today the temperature in NYC hit 67 degrees. This is the first sunny day above 60 degrees we have seen. A phenomenon in NYC occurs ech year on this day in which the cities residents celebrate the TRUE coming of spring by wearing their brand new and considerably less bulky new fashions. Although this occurs more in women than in men, the men partake in the ritual by twisting there heads around in a rapid motion.

I have yet to see any open toed shoes today, the tell tale-no turning back signature of spring. I must confess I have been above 34th st all day. I am sure we have all the toes out in union square.

I want to end on a sad note. As all the short bright colored tops and denim mini skirts pass by I can't help but notice the young women still wearing their knee length blach down jackets with the fir on the hood. Did they not get the memo? Hello?

Check out the streets.

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every5minutes series- April 3, 2005

This is a new series I am going to be doing from time to time. The essence is that I take a picture every 5 minutes during a short trip. This particular trip was me venturing to an art store in Manhattan from my hood in Brooklyn. Click this

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