tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-303735932024-03-14T05:29:32.293-04:00Neither more nor lessBob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.comBlogger1589125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-49750004981558926212011-10-28T11:44:00.016-04:002011-12-29T15:52:50.088-05:00R.I.P. Bob Arihood<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Bob Arihood passed away during the week of September 30<sup>th</sup> 2011.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We will be maintaining the blog indefinitely, along with Nadia Se Conoce. The site will be preserved exactly as Bob left it, except for this post. New comments will be allowed but only on this post. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The following is an introduction to Bob, his work, and to NMNL. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">Steve Jobs of Apple Computer fame died the same week as Bob. One obituary (from the WSJ) said this about Jobs: “no one could figure out what he was. He was no engineer or technologist. He was no conventional businessman either….he made himself up as he went along, improvised himself out of scratch, occupied a job category whose total size was always one”. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">This is a pretty accurate depiction of Robert Arihood as well. He graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering, and although was never formally employed as an engineer, he knew more about buildings and structures than the structural engineer we once worked with on a rebuilding project. Bob applied his training and practical experience in building and fixing things, but was always drawn to the arts: painting, sculpture, and especially film and photography. As an example of where this led, he built the film storage facility for the original Anthology Film Archive down in SoHo. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">He began photographing in a casual way in the 1960’s and 70’s, using a Leica M3 part of the time (and later M6). He never intended to become a photographer; it was never his dream, just a hobby, but he became more and more meticulous about this ‘hobby’. His main business was still building things, generally off of his own new ideas. After his last major venture ended circa 1994 or 1995, he became a full-time photographer, basically hanging out on the corner of Avenue A and 7<sup>th</sup> Street. There was no grand plan, just a commitment to becoming a master of what he did, and to keep evolving, to keep improvising himself out of scratch.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">He began selling photos on a free-lance basis to the Times, the Post, and the Villager; some may have appeared elsewhere. He became a regular at the Villager, probably publishing about 400 or 500 pictures there, maybe more, with his most active period coming during the summer of 2004, especially during the RNC. (See editor-in-chief Lincoln Anderson’s tribute at</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://www.thevillager.com/villager_443/photographerbob.html">thevillager.com</a>)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">He never intended to be a journalist either, but the stories naturally followed. Fiercely independent (and a true master of his trade), he often disliked the way his photos were cropped or printed. He was also irritated when details and facts he collected were missing or did not appear in print versions of stories written by others. He constantly told us he was going to hang up his cameras and retire...</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">He started NMNL in 2006, mainly to help out Jim Powers, but the site took on a life of its own. As he said just before starting NMNL, but after (mostly) ending his association with newspapers “I do not miss being part of the media. Really, I never desired to have anything to do with journalism.” </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">Yet he took the journalism seriously, and developed stories he felt were important, whether it was saving Jim Powers or Ray from eviction, covering crane collapses and building department gaffs, or exposing shenanigans of a particular real estate developer. He was not at all a community activist, as some have labeled him, except in the original meaning of the term: someone active in the community in which he lived. He looked after his neighbors, and if he had unique abilities to highlight one particular gross injustice or public negligence in his city or neighborhood, he would. That's why he kicked off the Save Ray movement, and that’s why he reported on DOB issues and the like.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">He often complained, especially in the 2000’s that part of what he did was not about photography, and in fact, having to shoot this subject matter in the way he did actually made his photography worse (one of the reasons he later started Nadie Se Conosce, to showcase photography more than reportage). But it is NMNL that received the primary attention. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">He was still shooting more film than digital through 2008, but by 2009 he was mainly scanning negatives not printing them, and with the arrival of Leica’s M9 in late 2009, he went mainly digital, finally being satisfied enough with digital output. But in his heart he still preferred film and he’d still bring out the M6 sometimes because, as he wrote “I still want to make pictures that look like ‘real pictures’.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">When he retired in 2010, for about a year, it was for three reasons: he had grown weary of the number of hours it took standing on the corner for very little material; weary of the hours it took to process all the images, and since he was meticulous, it took many hours to do so; and finally, the source material really had grown less interesting and plentiful. In an interview he gave to the Times , he added that, “the lack of pay and the new profusion of bloggers, cellphone photographers and Twitterbugs didn’t help.” Spending several thousand hours on that spot with him, we concur that there was less material per night than years earlier. After a night (May 17, 2010) that we stood outside for hours and the only thing that happened was a little dog eating waterbugs, he knew he had had enough. His retirement was only partial: he had started Nadie Se Conosce, he contributed photos and other info to EV Grieve and others, and couldn’t stop carrying a camera. In fact, he kept upgrading his equipment and systems. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">But like Michael Corleone in the later Godfather movies, Bob complained that he got sucked back in. He came back to NMNL in mid-2011, but was now somewhat of a celebrity, even a bit of a ‘living legend’. In the interim a number of media outlets had done stories on him, including the New York Times, <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/an-east-village-blogger-hangs-up-his-mouse/">NYT</a> and he met dozens of other bloggers and aspiring photographers, many of whom would just introduce themselves to him on the street (easy enough since he was unmistakable on that corner). As the Times said, “His style of reporting was of the old-fashioned shoe-leather sort and his main subjects were the itinerant travelers, street drinkers, punks, poets and sidewalk sleepers that once proliferated in the East Village but these days make up a vanishing tribe.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">He had fun with NMNL, but was growing tired of it again just before he died, and was threatening to once more ‘hang up his cameras.’ Still, the week before he died, he had upgraded his internet connection in order to begin uploading video to the site, and he had upgraded his computer systems as well. He wasn’t exactly sure what he would do next, but Bob was still improvising, still re-inventing himself. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.3in 0.0001pt 0.1in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">In Bob’s own words taken from one of his comments on a NMNL post called <a href="http://www.neithermorenorless.blogspot.com/2011_08_07_archive.html">General Assembly</a>: </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">“I photograph and write about what happens here in this neighborhood. I often write in jest of many things. I photograph and write mostly of things that nobody else will cover. There is still some local color here, I photograph it and write about it but that does not mean that I support it or that I am romanticizing it. Much of what you find here is little more than entertainment, cheap thrills and nothing more. Sometimes I do take a serious stand on an issue or an event. I do so publicly, openly with my name clearly displayed. I stand on a corner too , and speak to what I believe publicly and at times I am even recorded, photographed doing so…..there is an obligation on my part to report on this or any such event, [politically] left or right. This is what I did. If some people don't like this, well too damn bad grow up and live in the real world”.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">----------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i>A comment on Bob’s photography and journalism, and favorite posts.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">Bob was an extremely talented photographer, although much of what is here is not representative of his very best work. He also, despite himself, was a fine journalist in the old cast-he frequently quoted Walter Cronkite that a good journalist needed to be a person of broad general knowledge and he would add and a good ‘bullshit detector’. His best journalism, ironically, was generally when he left the corner of 7<sup>th</sup> Street and Avenue A. It is these pieces in which Bob’s photography, his reportage and writing, and his knowledge of engineering and buildings all come together to produce something no one else could. These include the crane collapse series on 51<sup>st</sup> Street in March 2008, an even better series in February 2007, another crane collapse series in October/November 2008, the 120 St. Marks saga in 2006/07, and the St. Brigid’s campaign, all on this site, and a much older building collapse series in the Villager around 2000 or 2011. His extensive coverage of the protests surrounding the 2004 Republican National Convention is also noteworthy but was only published in the Villager (and perhaps a few shots sold elsewhere). Other of our favorite posts include “Independence Day 1996 Little Italy” (we were with him when those were shot), a Feb 2008 post called “Pieces of Avenue A” , but there’s a ton of them. We also recommend Nadie Se Conosce for some of his older images. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i>A note on his videos</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">We intend to leave them up but we do point out that Bob didn't think he wanted to keep the videos. In an email 2 or 3 days before he died, he stated: "i think that since the quality of them is so low, i will remove these videos. Particularly the sound is poor... The problem is with this camera...to make serious video, one does not use a camera like this." </div>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-50081233955778130022011-09-25T14:15:00.000-04:002011-09-25T14:15:14.618-04:00Saturday Afternoon on 12th Street<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="400" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29565783?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="727"></iframe>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-37848423393322644032011-09-25T02:28:00.002-04:002011-09-25T02:32:50.717-04:00Saturday Afternoon Bus Ride in Cuffs to Police Plaza<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1_yvkpwh3m_aUhQAulII1jsj7SPE8DjDjacIufwHrOqiV0CbMggPVlTkZhBhWT3hE4puia4ktvLQ96arPQGBjIEImLhV2VV709cUSA81QEIKMLp0LsvUbAENINtYrREus4WZ8Jw/s1600/L9996926.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1_yvkpwh3m_aUhQAulII1jsj7SPE8DjDjacIufwHrOqiV0CbMggPVlTkZhBhWT3hE4puia4ktvLQ96arPQGBjIEImLhV2VV709cUSA81QEIKMLp0LsvUbAENINtYrREus4WZ8Jw/s640/L9996926.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-61517248955161371112011-09-24T02:32:00.000-04:002011-09-24T02:32:52.029-04:00Ray's Insurance<iframe width="727" height="400" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wHTe_ZCUh2w?hl=en&fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-43236862779135722282011-09-23T11:22:00.000-04:002011-09-23T11:22:51.971-04:00Another Morning in Tompkins Square Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mQvqm3ehyKvdF3SMnKWYgTN1qEwPLNfWF1jvaE0zvJ0Yt3DfaRIjefQA6W7wNrx1lkthZNvt7a_tsG3GiEta399CTh1di1e0OkExRyNmgNwez5-fvphvg8ji6QvC115aZl4oRw/s1600/L9996900+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mQvqm3ehyKvdF3SMnKWYgTN1qEwPLNfWF1jvaE0zvJ0Yt3DfaRIjefQA6W7wNrx1lkthZNvt7a_tsG3GiEta399CTh1di1e0OkExRyNmgNwez5-fvphvg8ji6QvC115aZl4oRw/s640/L9996900+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-30583242149523169872011-09-23T02:40:00.005-04:002011-09-23T20:46:28.838-04:005 Minutes with Ray<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="400" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29468447?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="727"></iframe>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-1786446853039381472011-09-23T02:39:00.006-04:002011-09-23T20:45:17.204-04:00Guillermo and 4 Loko at Ray's<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="400" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29467901?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="727"></iframe>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-36786389415482152672011-09-19T01:16:00.010-04:002011-09-23T21:03:43.629-04:00Preparing the Occupation of Wall Street?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The tourists hardly noticed the 300 or so folks of the General Assembly and allied groups sprawled about Zuccotti Park .Many had camped overnight at the leave of NYPD in the park .By mid-day most were up and about preparing to shut down Wall street .Some were concerned with the day's agenda ,some made posters , some made music and danced while the more militant sorts marched through the streets ,led by a black and red flag to a corner near Wall Street . Tomorrow Wall Street .Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-42826639071285916982011-09-18T22:42:00.002-04:002011-09-23T20:48:31.029-04:00Mid-Day Sunday in Zuccotti Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='480' height='400' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyvEfGTnuBzJkgG3dCQaJMjZZbX4mFfRzcc9cdoVmgh2ojDC2IVdA64IKMTDKPNFI3TRbg8czLNQfU' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-1175089152120472632011-09-17T13:00:00.001-04:002011-09-17T13:01:35.901-04:008 PM Sunday Sept. 25 at Theatre 80 St. Marks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE6xgYE7Mt_rt9sa2EGLdVW9u5xhAFAxYkUccq-X0w8k_FtEGF3Zyrx9Oy7PwMraawlxPpZUSwDe2ePoz8-zrGHt2JPFQDHOWVPRlA0xe7sdGfzQcv-o2dfIGTfJj_7z7JalJxfQ/s1600/L9996773.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE6xgYE7Mt_rt9sa2EGLdVW9u5xhAFAxYkUccq-X0w8k_FtEGF3Zyrx9Oy7PwMraawlxPpZUSwDe2ePoz8-zrGHt2JPFQDHOWVPRlA0xe7sdGfzQcv-o2dfIGTfJj_7z7JalJxfQ/s640/L9996773.jpg" width="624" /></a></div>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-65536246728637991482011-09-17T01:36:00.002-04:002011-09-17T03:44:49.668-04:00NYPD Patrols Tompkins Square Park Friday Night...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUqT9zcxRFrAwtuFYGVCTNPrUVJ-ACGGdxay9wn7GiMauHONUJeXO8aaYnNZimI4ZG_Q7IJFYoXT9_ih6lrP1xGRUgH2LwDsGTdz6aB94W1xVC3Z6tuOpbndvh-_HokkBSMKdPQ/s1600/L9996709.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUqT9zcxRFrAwtuFYGVCTNPrUVJ-ACGGdxay9wn7GiMauHONUJeXO8aaYnNZimI4ZG_Q7IJFYoXT9_ih6lrP1xGRUgH2LwDsGTdz6aB94W1xVC3Z6tuOpbndvh-_HokkBSMKdPQ/s640/L9996709.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Friday night NYPD made its presence known in Tompkins Square Park . 8 or more scooters from the 1st precinct were stationed at the corner of Avenue A and Saint Marks Place . Several other police vehicles were also present on Avenue A , 10th street and in TSP . Patrols were conducted through out TSP by car , scooter and on foot .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Police personnel mentioned that bicycle group Criticalmass was the focus of the patrols . We suspect though that police had word that members of criticalmass would be in TSP to support the General Assembly group in their attempt to take over Wall Street Saturday . Several bicyclists were seen under the Hare Krishna tree and this group was under surveilance by NYPD for 2 hours .Police units left the area around 10PM. </div>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-33443031808006673902011-09-16T18:06:00.002-04:002011-09-16T18:14:32.223-04:00Scarlett's Web<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yGROtgrlEyI?fs=1" width="459"></iframe>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-79548090509529860582011-09-16T16:50:00.001-04:002011-09-20T00:59:54.050-04:00Buddy<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4LLdvwNfCQs?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-4243621615757845782011-09-16T09:19:00.001-04:002011-09-16T18:50:41.632-04:002 Carts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUgpAdEbPe2IyWYIMSSEcRMGmOomVtobidh1ePuMVSTl98mjTcqt2JyiSQKof18Thw2Hy_AoHw4Ib5swzK-o9F6thzNc1owJw8Z6_EayAurJZ1f_7kQNwv6yWHW-FM7mr-6EPEEQ/s1600/L9996678.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="633" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUgpAdEbPe2IyWYIMSSEcRMGmOomVtobidh1ePuMVSTl98mjTcqt2JyiSQKof18Thw2Hy_AoHw4Ib5swzK-o9F6thzNc1owJw8Z6_EayAurJZ1f_7kQNwv6yWHW-FM7mr-6EPEEQ/s640/L9996678.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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Not too long ago Adele was a regular in TSP ,spending much of her time sitting at one of the chesstables, in violation of park rules , not playing chess but handing out socks , underware and inviting folks at the tables who were hungry to visit Graffiti Church for a free dinner . She was seen by many to be a saint .No one messed with Adele in TSP.<br />
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Adele hasn't been around TSP much for the last year or so . Saturday she returned to TSP , welcomed by some of her old frends ,Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-54487849634221775132011-09-11T19:01:00.001-04:002011-09-16T18:52:45.829-04:00Afternoon on Avenue A<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkpDNLv_lHWG1e4rpEOOVJVtr1I2_OYNDEBfpVnF8WJSI3vNb7fdWWYv4ceqkINDrzvexeDghqOrp5fjsOoev_YOlMiIbcjvbotc99NWoAjynxgoj5cutvo1dXSqy_82NKeY4UBg/s1600/L9996614.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkpDNLv_lHWG1e4rpEOOVJVtr1I2_OYNDEBfpVnF8WJSI3vNb7fdWWYv4ceqkINDrzvexeDghqOrp5fjsOoev_YOlMiIbcjvbotc99NWoAjynxgoj5cutvo1dXSqy_82NKeY4UBg/s640/L9996614.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-43705449482087520582011-09-09T03:34:00.005-04:002011-09-16T18:53:22.486-04:00Rats Eat Squirrel in Tompkins Square Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Gorey whiskered muzzles nosed deep , tasted blood and chewed . Bloodied teeth ripped flesh and bloodied rat hands tugged at guts picking apart the corpse. Several rats , at times sharing ,at times fighting , consumed a squirrel under a Linden tree in Tompkins Square Park .The squirrel's demise? Who knows . Perhaps the rats mobbed the squirrel when it attempted to climb their tree.Bob Arihoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255105317878804914noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30373593.post-64092274204252730152011-09-09T02:44:00.045-04:002011-09-16T18:53:37.082-04:001870 Siege of Paris : Queuing for Fresh Meat ...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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