Wednesday, May 08, 2024
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D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor

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JANUARY 4, 2008 --

The Bernanke prediction displayed in Times Square, last month. (LPR decided to stay away from Times Square, New Year's Eve -- not necessarily to avoid seeing other glum forecasts ushering in 2008.)


Bernanke prediction


The request for assistance site is not far from Jacob Fields, in Cleveland -- seen here are the Jacobs Field lights


Last July, LPR, nearing Jacobs Field, in Cleveland, noticed a sign on a road asking for a nickel or dime and saw a figure waving to motorists. LPR did not forget that image which suggests  that economic conditions are just aggregates of the human condition.

Asking for help in Cleveland …


On a Rhode Island beach, last September, LPR got an image of a sea gull with something to say.  


Seagull


Outside Yankee Stadium, last summer, LPR spotted Yankee outfielder Johnny (Is he sorry he left the Red Sox?) Damon with two young fans, one of them not wearing a Damon shirt.


Damon and Jeter fans

Yankee Stadium


The Year 2008 is to be the last season played by the New York Yankees in Yankee Stadium.  Will baseball fans throughout the country demand that "the House that Ruth built" not be demolished?

The top of the Chrysler building, photographed by LPR, last month, from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building.


Chrysler Building as seen from the Empire State Building


Another LPR image of Philip Seymour Hoffman during a Broadway Show League softball game, a few years ago. Mr. Hoffman is shown here having reached first base. At his day job, of course, he regularly hits home runs.


Philip Seymour Hoffman on first base in BSL game