I wake up every Sunday morning feeling like Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day," but instead of the picture on the clock radio flipping to 6:00AM
and the sound of Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe," it's the Pilsbury Doughboy image of Tim Russert and the sounds of dishonest politicians delivering their 'messages of the day' on "Meet the Press." Today was special, though. Like in the movie, it was snowing and what a beautiful sight it was looking out my 8th floor window and up 115th St. towards Columbia University. 27 inches and, by the time it was all over, the largest snowfall on record. It was hard to move around the city and many were forced to cancel plans. Few had to work and even fewer had to move their cars. And that it was Sunday meant that all the mothers and fathers and kids and teenagers and boyfriends and girlfriends in town were free to head out into their neighborhoods for a real day off. For those who didn't care for it, they could simply stay home and get more than their usual share of peace and quiet. It was one of the more spectacular days in New York history, one that will mark our lives and pin down our memories of this town.
It didn't bother me so much then, that, before I headed out into the white with my camera for another set of snow pictures, I had to watch Mr. Russert turn the show over one more time to all the propaganda messengers and watch as he continued to play the ineffectual middle school civics teacher and make a mockery of what was once a great and vital news program. It appeared to be a rerun as he went over already-covered ground in Bush's NSA wiretap-crimes scandal with the surreal innuendo that this new development in the expansion of executive power must be the Democrats' fault: "What did the Democrats know and when they knew it, why didn't they break the law and all their sworn oaths to stop it?"
The Democrats continue their masochistic ways as the Bush regime's brutality towards the truth rolls on, unchecked by the fourth estate. But, not today. It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood and it was going to stay that way,
photo©Edward Keating 1996: 115th St and Broadway
and the sound of Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe," it's the Pilsbury Doughboy image of Tim Russert and the sounds of dishonest politicians delivering their 'messages of the day' on "Meet the Press." Today was special, though. Like in the movie, it was snowing and what a beautiful sight it was looking out my 8th floor window and up 115th St. towards Columbia University. 27 inches and, by the time it was all over, the largest snowfall on record. It was hard to move around the city and many were forced to cancel plans. Few had to work and even fewer had to move their cars. And that it was Sunday meant that all the mothers and fathers and kids and teenagers and boyfriends and girlfriends in town were free to head out into their neighborhoods for a real day off. For those who didn't care for it, they could simply stay home and get more than their usual share of peace and quiet. It was one of the more spectacular days in New York history, one that will mark our lives and pin down our memories of this town. It didn't bother me so much then, that, before I headed out into the white with my camera for another set of snow pictures, I had to watch Mr. Russert turn the show over one more time to all the propaganda messengers and watch as he continued to play the ineffectual middle school civics teacher and make a mockery of what was once a great and vital news program. It appeared to be a rerun as he went over already-covered ground in Bush's NSA wiretap-crimes scandal with the surreal innuendo that this new development in the expansion of executive power must be the Democrats' fault: "What did the Democrats know and when they knew it, why didn't they break the law and all their sworn oaths to stop it?"
The Democrats continue their masochistic ways as the Bush regime's brutality towards the truth rolls on, unchecked by the fourth estate. But, not today. It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood and it was going to stay that way,
photo©Edward Keating 1996: 115th St and Broadway
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