white gay cruising in Prospect Park - Thursday July 11 2002
The weather is almost cool today. I'm sure that at her writer's sabbatical up in northern Vermont Gretchen thinks it's the climate, but really it's just one hell of a cold air mass.
Reuters is reporting that the music industry is now pleading in the press for us to please stop downloading music for free. The article quotes John Kennedy, President and Chief Operating Officer of Universal Music International, as saying, "If the prevailing music for free mentality is left unchecked, record companies will no longer be able to re-invest up to 15 percent of their revenues in discovering and nurturing the Platinum artists [emphasis mine] of the future." That's right, you heard it from the Man himself. If we keep it up, there will no longer be the money to discover and sustain such phenoms as N'Sync and the Backstreet Boys. What sort of world would that be?
Sunset behind the spires of Park Slope, Brooklyn,
viewed from my brownstone's rooftop
(near the northeast corner of Park Slope).
Lower Manhattan from Park Slope. Click to enlarge.
Lower Manhattan from Park Slope. Compare to World Trade Center disaster images on this page.
The corner of Prospect Park West (top)
and President Street (coming in from the bottom).
8:33pm EDT: Sunset south of the tip of Manhattan from Park Slope.
It looks like it's setting in the ocean but that's actually New Jersey.