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1.1.1.
07/10/09

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Cajun Boy:

There's a typo in your anchor link tag. It should be "Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservatory."
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resipsaloquacious
07/10/09

@1.1.1.:

There is going to be no living with you since Denton gave you the OK to point out typos.
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BookishLookish
07/10/09

@resipsaloquacious: I'll elevate this comment, with pleasure.
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resipsaloquacious
07/10/09

@BookishLookish:

When elevating, please remember to give me a goose on the rear.
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The Cajun Boy
07/10/09

@1.1.1.: Thank you!
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1.1.1.
07/10/09

In reply to But Where Do They Get the Giant Tubs of Stale Popcorn?
I can't tell if the comment above is sincere and I don't want to reply as that would improve its ranking, but I have to say that I love Shelley Duvall. She's goofily cute.

And she's wonderful in The Shining.

They can't all be plastic, look-a-like blonde human Barbies.
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nozer
07/10/09

@1.1.1.: I just saw "The Shining" at the IFC center, and the few hecklers in that audience made me sad. I would have been pissed to have 400 people around me who are only concerned with making fun of ugly people.

I Love Shelley Duvall, too, and thinks she gives an amazing performance in "The Shining." I also think that Kubrick also sort of "uglied" her up with her clothes and hair so that you could see the low self-worth she had and better understand why she stayed with Jack.

Watch "3 Women" to see a beautiful Shelley.
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lobstr
07/10/09

In reply to But Where Do They Get the Giant Tubs of Stale Popcorn?
I saw The Shining there last year in September and it was, shall I say, fucking awesome. I've seen that movie about 120 times but never before in an audience full of hecklers, you don't realize how horribly ugly Shelley Duvall is until you're amongst 400 people making snorting noises during every close-up of those toofs. It was hilarious.
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bjonston
06/02/09

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Reminds me of "the Olden Days" as my brother used to say.
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Baroness
06/02/09

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Really nice picture, love it. But it seems to be from a point already deep into Brooklyn. The darker middle-ground buildings are certainly across the river from Manhattan.
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parkslump
06/02/09

@Baroness: The darker buildings in the mid ground are on the edge of Manhattan by the FDR, you can see the Manhattan Bridge as it goes between them.
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Claire Buoyant
06/02/09

@Baroness: It's from the Brooklyn Bridge for sure. If you go to his Flickr page, you'll see that he has geotagged this photo. Specifically, it's from the first tower east of Manhattan.
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Claire Buoyant
06/02/09

@Claire Buoyant: OK, now, anyone care to help me locate this picture (as in, the specific street/intersection). All I can tell is that it's south of the Chrysler Building, and it's driving me crazy.

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Baroness
06/02/09

@parkslump: Ah, please forgive, you're right. The extreme tonal difference seemed to imply a much greater distance- because Manhattan is only 2 miles wide at some points, and in this, the Empire State seems wildly far away.

But answering my own question, the island does widen down there, too. makes sense. Lesson learned: pictures can be dirty liars, and I can be wrong. Going to go lie down now in despair. Hold my calls, Mildred.
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Baroness
06/02/09

@Claire Buoyant: Well, I'm the crazy recklessly wrong lady today, so I'll of course give it a whirl. It's a pretty extreme telephoto, and the height differences are fucking with me. Is that spire Grace Church on lower Broadway and 9th Street?

Driving me crazy too, because the dark foreground shape looks like a traffic sign but the church spire is a midget, that church is 50 feet in the ground. Oh, I'm so wrong, I give up. Bring me my flask, Nanette. Ignominy!
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