I love Syrian jokes and just found a whole website full of them!
Here’s a sample:
Someone told his Homsi friend your wife and your best friend are in the forest together…
The Homsi runs to the forest and after 5 minutes he cames back and says: there is only 2 trees and you say forest !!
Willard creates sculptures under a microscope that can fit inside of the head of a pin. His Charlie Chaplin balances perfectly on the end of a eyelash.
But the man can’t read or write! “My teacher made me feel small,” he reports in a YouTube video. “She made me feel like I was nothing. I’m trying to prove that nothing, doesn’t exist,” he says.
Willard’s teacher should rethink the value she places on students with learning disabilities like those Willard suffers from. A collector just bought up Willard’s private stock of his sculptures for USD $20 million. Hah! Good on you, Mr. Willard.
I was looking for a list of free admissions hours to museums in the city. I found out that some museums are always free, some allow people to pay “whatever they wish to pay” [which can be a one penny donation] and some are free on certain days, or during certain hours.
In a New York Times article, Roberta Smith intended to propose a challenge to museums to gradually lower their fees until they were always open to the public at no charge. “. . . it is through [artwork] that we discover and explore important aspects of our humanness. [Museums] should be equally available to all, for the good of the individual and society as a whole.”
Ms. Smith found out that museums across the nation have recently acquired government and private grants which allow them to open their doors to the public free of charge. This movement isn’t widespread in New York City yet. Is it too much to hope that one day it may be?
While researching her article Ms. Smith learned, “Museums speak of wanting to attract larger, more democratic audiences. They cannot even begin to know this audience, much less accommodate it, until they lower the barriers, at least to their permanent collections. Doreen Bolger, director of the Baltimore Museum, told The Washington Post that the number of nonwhite visitors nearly tripled during the museum’s free hours.”
One of the exhibits my younger son wants to see is about slavery in New York during the Civil War at the Historical Society on Central Park West at 77th Street. I called and verified that admission is free at between 6-8 pm on Friday nights. 12-year old Ari has been an avid student of war history for several years and blogs his thoughts on war and how it affects the development of society.
Here’s a great list of art and cultural venues offering free hours. Enjoy!
Want to see a bunch of really cool photos? A Bengal tiger as it dives for meat, a Zebra-horse with a striped and solid coat, dogs feeding tiger cubs, a wrecker ball lodged in a car’s bashed-in trunk?
There’s nothing old about the way these 70, 80, 90+ year old people sing. Visit their Myspace Page. Watch the music video“My Generation”!
“Winifred Warburton, 99, said that recording the [My Generation] song was the best day of her life.”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released July 15. If you want to preorder visit Barnes and Noble.
The act is fabulous. The telling of it could use a little work. Video.
1010 WINS, the New York metro area news radio program, has a commercial with Kelly Riper woman doing ads for the Mets. She names Mets forum members by name and town and speaks to one concern or question raised by each person. Manages to mention 3 or 4 people in a 1-minute commercial. Then encourages all of them to go right out and “Get (their) Mets tickets now!”
Kinda makes me want to login and be a member of that forum. Oh wait . . . . . . Yeah? That’s right. Darn. Almost forgot, I’m a Yankees fan.
About that Mets forum - the one that Kelly Riper calls a “blog”. Say, where is that darned forum anyway? Blogger Dana Brand can’t find it either. Here’s what Dana says about it:
“Kelly says, on the commercial, that she’s been looking at the blogs on mets.com. Where are they? I’ve been all over that site and I can’t find any blogs. She gives the names of some bloggers and they have “Somebody from Somewhere” names like people who call into sports talk shows. Bloggers don’t have names like that. Does Kelly know what a blog is? Does the writer of the commercial know what a blog is? This Kelly, right here, is a blog. Not whatever it is you’ve been looking at. I hope she hasn’t been looking at the fan forum. She doesn’t want to go there. What people might say about her there is a lot worse than that she’s not a real Mets fan because she doesn’t know that David Wright’s favorite color is acquamarine. David, is that really your favorite color?”
Dana, when you find out what are the blogs or forum Kelly’s referring to, give me a holler, will you?
See more of this wonderful body art at creator Guido Daniele’s website. Thanks, Moshe, for bringing this beauty to our attention!
