Confessions of a City Slicker

This is my favorite landscape - the Brooklyn Bridge with the World Trade Center in the background.  I fancied having it painted on one of my walls should I eventually get my own place.

It took the photographer months to get this picture right as he couldn’t obtain the proper permission to enter the building where this picture was taken from.

Of course the landscape has changed.  The World Trade Center had been obliterated that fateful day - 11 September 2001 exactly 6 years ago today - thanks to that PIG Ozzie.  An eternity in Hell will never be enough punishment for that low life.

2,974 people died that day.  More lives were later shed as a result of the ensuing war on terror.

My prayers go out to the families of these innocent victims on this day.

Ground Zero is now a stark reminder of the atrocities human beings are capable of in the name of beliefs and religion totally abandoning any sense of reason.

Some of us might have noticed this cute cartoon occassionally featured in NST as fillers some years ago.  I have a whole scrap book collection of them.  Because they were not published everyday, I will painstakingly pore through NST everyday to find them.  It became a treasure hunt of sorts for me.

Love is indeed a many splendored thing in this cartoon.  It can be something so mundane like…

Something so sweet…

Something so naughty…

Something good…

Or bad…

Love is… was first created by Kim Casali as a love note of sorts to her husband to be.  They became a hit when syndicated.  After her death, her son, Stefano took over.

NST stopped publishing the cartoon somewhere in ‘97 and I stopped collecting them.  A few days ago I came across comicspage.com that features Love Is… everyday (except Sundays).  Their archives go back six months, so now I am rediscovering the joy of collecting my favorite cartoon.

Love Is… album in Friendster is coming soon, when I can find the time to do it.