It's kinda hard to post something to a home renovation/design blog everyday for a month if you're not actually working on the project. The only real forward progress today was finally getting all of the laundry done, folded, and put away after weeks of flaky appliances. Not one for the record books but if you only knew what joy it brings to me you'd cut me some slack.
Today was my niece and her friend's last day in town. What better way to celebrate than going to the Coney Island mermaid parade? Pasties galore and more flesh than you could shake a stick at, however I think this photo summed it up best for me. Like the gentrification that tamed Times Square the last bastion of freakdom may also go the way of mall-ification that overtook Manhattan. There were many protesting "development" in today's parade, somehow if felt like the sun was setting on a golden age.
On the up side, we did take in the "freak" show just off the board walk after it was over. It's great to see that tradition carry on in it's neo-vaudevillian-freakier-than-thou sort of way.
Fantastic photograph.....
Posted by: Tracy | 2007.06.24 at 09:10