Alissa Walker Goes to Walk New York

Check out these walking tours with Alissa Walker, who is publicizing her book, "New York, Twenty Five Walking Tours." Today, Oct. 25th, you can meet Alissa Walker aka
Gelato Baby at 6pm at the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park (corner of 6th Ave & 42nd St), for free. Alissa has a very pretty blogs with photographs and is a writer based in LA California. Alissa writes lots of stories and seems like a fun young lady, and Alissa is also quite pretty.


Obviously she is doing her best to make the New York City scene. Maybe she will make it up to Harlem and Bronx too, she has already been out in Queens NY at the World's Fair grounds. Note that all tours include a complimentary serving of gelato or ice cream, plus all attendees will receive a coupon good for a discount on the book.


Tuesday, October 20-- Official Release Party at Jen Bekman Gallery & Rising Lower East Side Walk Sponsored by ForYourArt. Alissa is making the artsy fartsy scene, and likes to eat too. Join us at Jen Bekman Gallery for drinks, carb-loading and and Hosang Park’s photography, then stroll through the ever-changing Lower East Side with special stops at the New Museum, Red Square, BLUE, the Hotel on Rivington, Storefront for Art & Architecture and more. Then we’ll head back to Jen Bekman Gallery for four special New York-inspired flavors of gelato from il laboratorio del gelato. Purchase a copy on-site and Alissa will sign your favorite neighborhood!
6pm Meet at Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street
7-8:30pm Walk through the LES
8:30pm Gelato reception at Jen Bekman Gallery.

I have a feeling that Alissa is being sponsored by a gelato brand or company.

Wednesday, October 21
The Brooklyn Bridge Before Breakfast
Sponsored by Chronicle Books
Don’t miss this brisk early morning walk over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan to see New York rising in all its glory. And gosh darn it if we don’t find some breakfast ice cream on the other side. We’ll be finished by 8am, just in time for you to head to work.
7am Meet outside the High Street Station [A/C], Brooklyn

Thursday, October 22
Broadway Skyscrapers: How New York Got High
Sponsored by The Architect’s Newspaper
Pack a picnic for this one-hour lunchtime walk that starts at Bowling Green Park and marches up Lower Broadway, revealing the Gossip Girl-worthy back-stabbing backstory behind the battling buildings (and architects) who attempted to keep topping each other during the skyscraper race of the early 1900’s.
12pm Meet outside the Bowling Green Station [4/5]

Friday, October 23
Midtown Modernism: Then & Now
Sponsored by SVA MFA in Design Criticism
Wear your Mad Men finest for this evening walk to see some of the city’s modern masterpieces, as Alissa narrates with excerpts from reviews of each building that were published at the time of completion. Includes the “Slaughter on Sixth,” MoMA, Lever Building, Seagram Building and a few lesser-known/secret spots, followed by Gordon Bunshaft-approved martinis and Mies van der Gelato.
6pm Meet in front of the Time & Life statue at the Time-Life Building, 1271 Avenue of the Americas

Saturday, October 24
The High Line: A Rail Good Idea
Sponsored by GOOD
A leisurely stroll up New York’s public space pride-and-joy, the converted railway corridor now known as The High Line, recently named to the GOOD 100 as one of the people, projects or places changing our world. We’ll also be gawking at the spanking-new architecture sprouting up around New York’s “Starchitect Row,” followed by gelato in the shape of Frank Gehry’s InterActiveCorp Building. Kids absolutely welcome!
11am Meet at the southern terminus of the High Line, at the corner of Gansevoort & Washington

A Story of the Age of Obama, Part 1

A Chemical Reaction - A Story of the Age of Obama- Part 1

I was nervous at the campus. It was my first year of graduate school in Chemical Engineering at Columbia University . Somehow I was growing sort of distant to other people. I did have a male roommate in the two-bedroom apartment I called home at International House. The roommate, Kim was also a Chemical Engineering student and it was convenient to have him there to chit-chat with and talk some shop.
It was late September already and occasional cold and rainy days interrupted the otherwise sunny weather. It would get damp and only go up to about 50-degrees F. When I came home from class and my teaching assistant job, I felt sad, staring out of the rainy window in the early evening light. I was thinking of my summer love, Liz. I met Liz doing some volunteer political organizing out in LA, California . I was working for the Democratic Progressive Organization, sometimes referred to as the “Obama Youth.” I had become wildly enthusiastic about the now President Barack Obama during the previous election campaign and had mad it to Los Angeles , initially sleeping on the floor of some guys dorm room on a futon.

(to be continued)

Green Jobs, Green and Environmental Literature

Green jobs, green literature, green environment, but can we really afford it. The literature of the bankrupt system is not appearing much on the internet but it will have to make its way out soon. The collapse is here. They shoot horses don't they? We are heading to 1930s style depression and beyond unless you listen to larouche.


GM is such a ripoff. The Obama plan does nothing to stop the spiraling lost of jobs and economic activity. Obama's health plan is also a disaster. It will offer insurance cards, at the same time that almost 1 million children are about to get thrown off the California States Schips medical plan. The bailout of GM is a disaster, just like the bailout of the real estate bubble. Harlem and the South Bronx, NY you better beware of this phony supporter of Franklin Roosevelt. What Obama is really supporting is not FDR, but the Larry Summers bailout of the financial oligarchy, no matter what it does to the nation. Next is nazi style health care rationing, unless we stop it. The whole thing is insane. We don't need these bankers, we can create an Alexander Hamilton style national bank.

Not everyone wants to commit suicide for globalization

Not everyone wants to commit suicide for globalization.India, with a population of more than one billion, cannot afford to boost speculation, especially after the global economic breakdown. In one of the many ads, the governing Congress Party brags over its nationalization of the banks during the 1960s. Even Advani, the head of the BJP, the Hindu nationalist party is not that much different, promising to protect farmland from unnecessary industrial projects. India’s rise as an economic power has made many in the West happy, but the end of the line is near. Self-sufficiency or even socialism are the new by-words, not globalization and speculation. The real estate bubble has come down, and India does not want to be sucked in. Time to shut down the British empire.

At the Blue Angel, South Bronx- Fiction

At The Blue Angel- Green Festival 4/21/09

“For the love of God- That’s what I am. For him of My Mother- And I will not change; For the Holy Ghost- to comply with others.” Yeah, Yeah, Uh, Uh…” That is what the girl singer/rapper was chanting on the stage, and I started to get uncomfortable.

“Wade, why did you take me to this gay joint?” I say.
“Why, I think that lesbo chick is kind of cute.” Says Wade.
“I never thought I’d be in a little nightclub watching a female rapper called “Domini-a-trix.”

“Look, it’s cool” says Wade. “You gotta get into the feeling of these people, of the oppression. Anyway Gibson, you gotta learn to loosen up. This is fun.”

I look over this scene. It’s like all the weirdos like to hang out together. First, I’m with the greenies, and now I’m in a club that is the center for the South Bronx gays and avant-garde. I guess it’s part of being with the in-crowd of outcasts. After all, some people are on the fringe of society and get along with others like that, even if for entirely different reasons…. I’ve just drank a beer, which isn’t much, but I feel pretty high.
“So you gonna start moving in tomorrow?” I ask.
“Yeah, says Wade, “and I’m getting off from work on Monday to move all the heavy stuff in.”

“But don’t you think you oughta wait a while till you get the plasterboard in to the kitchen and cover up the pipes?” I say.
“Look Jeff, this is a great opportunity for me” says Wade, staring at me with some anger and speaking loud over the music. “Do you know, because of this deal, I’m getting back together again with Mona and with little Cleo, my little girl. She’s only 10-years old.
“I see,” I reply.
“But, this is a big chance for you too, Gibson. I can teach you more about the green movement, and about eating right too,” says Wade.
“You’re really, like, totally a vegetarian? I ask. “Like, are you vegan too?”
“No, no. I tried that, but I used to get meat fits.”
“What’s that?”
“You know, you have to go to the steak house and chow down,” says Wade. “Now I drink milk and eat eggs.”
“I guess that’s preparing you for sainthood.”
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Limits to Growth or Not?

Earth Day has been around since a bit after the publication of the "Limits to Growth Book" by D. Meadows, et al. and an MIT team. This report used linear computer models to prove that mass genocide of the human population was inevitable. Instead, in reality, progressive installations of nuclear power and fusion power have been stopped by a malthusian, oligarchical conspiracy. Read Lyndon Larouche's book "There are No Limits to Growth."

Yes, it is Earth Day again. We can masturbate about the different sub-species that have disappeared. The brown owl is fine, but the spotted owl is in trouble, so let's destroy all infrastructure development. Are you a little tired of this reasoning.

Now with the real crash of the economy hitting, can we afford this malarky anymore? Global Warming stories abound, then we hear that NASA admits that the Arctic is freezing up more than ever. This is the ice age of human sanity I think.

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Freakonomics and Nudge- Two Important Books

There is a lot more to learn about these weird books like "Freakonomics" and "Nudge." Several of these books are written by close advisers to the Obama Administration, and Larouche Pac warns that this is a big problem, with Obama and his narcissistic and egoistic mind set. An example of this is the frenzy around "Earth Day" every April since 1970. Earth Day still is a sort of U.S. holiday, but has it gone too far? At the Bronx Zoo, in New York, the whole month is a giant earth day celebration. Green energy is very expensive, but they seem to be sucking everyone into it. Now with this cap and trade bill from the Obama administration, things will get very expensive indeed. The game of the behaviorist is to get you to go along with the greenie b.s., but make it seem like you are volunteering to do it.

By the way, there is am interview with Larouche on www.russiatoday.com