Where Do the Children Play? Coney Island

Here is a link to a compilation of blogs and photos about Coney Island, and here is a recent photo-essay by Robert Polidori from the New Yorker website about Astroland off-season.  Here is a Jake Mooney Dispatches column from The New York Times about The Parachute Jump.

The Greatest Record Collection in the World

Valued at $50 million the collection just sold on eBay for a little over $3 million. Roughly 3 million 78s, LPS, CDs and Singles. Thank you for the Hidden Track blog for posting the story. Here is a actual eBay sale and a Pittsburgh newspaper report on the collection.

French Bulldog Shameless Exploitation

Picabia's Femme au Bulldog from an exhibit currently in London at the Tate Modern reviewed in the London Evening Standard here.

Roxy Music moment

This is the cover of a promo Roxy Music record with remixes of Editions of You (Phones Mix) and Virginia Plain (Headman Re-mix). The New Yorker comments on the new Roxy Music compilation DVD here.

From the arts pages, a cool advertisement

All Gone

Vinyl Mania. A fixture in various locations on Carmine Street for the past 20 years. Promo albums $2.99 and the first place I ever got CD singles -- like the singles off U2's The Joshua Tree.

Landmarks of Columbia County, NY

The Ancram waterfall

Millerton, NY

Bubbles takes a bath

from the summer of 2006

Doctor Who moment

Tom Baker sighted on London's South Bank filming Doctor Who sometime between 1974 and 1981. Probably taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera.