Upper East Side, NYC in the morning. Park Avenue
I love Park Avenue
Mostly happy that this was tagged as #PanAm first and then #MetLife. Also because I can see my Apt building in the photo. :)
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Mayor Bloomberg and Mr. Met have a great reason to celebrate.
Mayor Bloomberg, Commissioner of Major League Baseball Allan (Bud) H. Selig and New York Mets Chairman and CEO Fred Wilpon today announced that Citi Field will host the 2013 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Read more on nyc.gov.
(via brooklynmutt)
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Southampton sunset
CJF, VCDW, and the graduating seniors from the VU football team: Graduation swag! CJF is considering telling VCDW that purple isn’t black or gold, so he needs to get “All in.” Happy graduation day, Vanderbilt!
(Source: twitter.com)
My ironic cover (answer is “Hell no”)
You literally can’t fight the cute in this.
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“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” —
Mitt Romney speaking about John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, who was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Romney was commenting on his “walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye.”
This testimony comes from Matthew Friedemann, Romney’s close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm. According to Friedemann’s recollection, Mitt kept complaining about Lauber’s look. Obsessively. Today the story’s being printed in the Washington Post.
The only thing that I know for sure is true is that this is being printed in the Washington Post, who says The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another.
(via goodreasonnews)
While I tend to think homophobia played a big role here, it also could legitimately have been an anti-long hair anti-hippy thing (which was big in those days among conservatives and, I understand, even today among Mormons). Regardless of whether or not it was based on gay bashing or hippy bashing, it still amounts to vicious bullying of a younger kid.