Shaw Hotel, Woodside, NY

Hair's to you!

Pondering the future.

To all my friends in Queens. Having a wonderful time in Brooklyn. The trip here went fine altho a bit bumpy at times. I've got a room with a great view. The neighbors are nice and quiet and lot of tourists come to visit. Wish you were here! Best to you all...Civvy V. PS The "girls" say hello too.

While you slept: Saturday, December 15, 2012. The execution and removal of "The Triumph of Civic Virtue" from Queens Borough Hall.




The gallows: Queens Borough Hall.

 



The hearse awaits the body of Civic Virtue.

 



Workers ready the execution site.

 



Civic Virtue stoically awaits his fate.

 


No reprieve.




Behold!  This is Queens.





The undertakers receive the corpse.

 



Guiding the coffin to the hearse.

 




Identifying the victim.

  




Queens officialdom blesses the event.


The funeral procession of the Queens statue - and ideal - of Civic Virtue
procedes to a cemetery in Brooklyn.

  

A "turd" term for the President?

      Bill Donohue, President of the Catholic League, proudly shows off his recently-created artwork showing a bobble-headed figure of President Obama in a jar of ersatz fecal matter.  Mr. Donohue created same in response to the opening of the infamous Andres Serrano depiction of the crucified Jesus in a container of the artist's urine - Piss Christ.   Mr. Donohue's organization held a protest gathering on Thursday evening, September 27 in front of the Edward Tyler Nahem art gallery (37 West 57th Street, NYC) which is displaying Serrano's work on its premises.  Mr. Donohue maintains that President Obama engages in the height of hypocrisy by condemning the recent controversial movie The Innocence of Muslims which has caused unrest in the Islamic world and not condemning what the Catholic League maintains is an insult to Christianity.

Thank you, Keith Tantlinger.