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February 14, 2005
REMINDS ME OF RED CHINA
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| Artists Christo (L) and Jeanne-Claude (orange hair) look over their 'The Gates' project in New York's Central Park after the official unveiling, February 12, 2005. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton | People stroll amid Christo's 'The Gates' in Central Park in New York. 'The Gates' is the largest public arts project the city has ever seen.(AFP/Don Emmert |
The New York Clothesline
The sad thing is, you wanted to like "The Gates." Mayor Bloomberg said it would attract many out-of-town visitors before it was dismantled on Feb. 27; the city's Economic Development Council estimated that they would spend $80 million. Moreover some 650 "paid volunteers" -- one of them Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas -- had worked for days on the installation. And the statistics were impressive: 5,920 tons of steel, 60 miles of vinyl tubing and 116,389 miles of fabric were reported to have gone into the construction process
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It's good that Christo raised the $21 million himself.
Who pays for the extra policemen to protect this "art"?
New York Police to Protect 'Gates' Display
Hundreds of extra police officers will spend the next two weeks in Central Park to make sure a planned art display doesn't attract graffiti artists with ideas of their own.
Posted by kitty at February 14, 2005 12:04 PM
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One of our Doormen who is Dominican and live in the Bronx came in today and said that you can see the same thing there every wash day except it is more colorful. I went to see it and my little dog gave her opinion by promptly peeing on one of the stands.
Posted by: DoctorDentons at February 14, 2005 02:40 PM
I was hoping you'd give a first hand account. Which do you think came first, the artwork's color or her hair?
Posted by: kitty at February 14, 2005 02:52 PM
I went to do some errands while the computer guy was here and since I only live 4 blocks from the Park I decided to see if there were still tourists
willing to brave the weather...none in sight, but there was a bunch of pissed off Police Officers standing around so I asked a Sgt. from Manhattan North whose shit list he was on to draw this duty.
He just smiled and told me to hurry on home( that
isn't what he said but I've used up my two profanities for this post.)
To answer your Cop Pay question...The idiots donated $3 million to pay for police.
Posted by: DoctorDentons at February 14, 2005 03:37 PM
I'm glad Bloomy didn't agree to pay it.
You mean that a NYC cop answered you with profanity?
Posted by: kitty at February 14, 2005 04:12 PM
If I understood him correctly it was:
GEDDAFUKOUDDAHERE. Is that profanity?
Posted by: DoctorDentons at February 14, 2005 05:16 PM
No, that's NY :)
Posted by: kitty at February 14, 2005 07:18 PM
The freaking subhuman new york times liberals are writing to the editor in droves saying this beautiful orange display resembles traffic cones and impedes their enjoyment of the "natural" setting of the park.
hey asswipe liberal newyorkers, if you want nature, get out of your sick liberal city.
Posted by: at February 16, 2005 09:48 AM
For once I agree with those who hate this piece of crap and I'm a conservative Republican New Yorker you asswipe.
Posted by: DoctorDentons at February 16, 2005 06:40 PM
Oh, your little elitist park for the rich sows that inhabit million dollar condos like the liberal scum rats they are have a Republican ally now, do they?
I'm glad subhuman liberal new york assholes have a babysitter to protect their interests. One has to wonder why a conservative would step up for such heathen secularists, but whatever floats your boat, dude.
Most of us here in flyover land don't consider any of you so-called "Republican" New York friends of abortion true members of the GOP, though, know that. You couldn't even get your neighbors to behave for two seconds for the convention, could you?
Posted by: countryboy at February 17, 2005 08:22 AM