Went to see The Cure a few weeks ago with Robin at Madison Square Garden. The last time I saw The Cure, it was at Radio City in 1985, I was 15, and the ticket cost $17.50. Things are a little different now, but the music was the same and great! Robert Smith (the lead singer) looked and sounded just like 1985. Except I wasn’t miraculously turned back to 15. Sad, but true.

Always an interesting story. When I arrived in NYC, I was going to meet Robin right in front of Penn Station at the Taxi stand. While I was waiting, some big carribean dude came up with a rolling suitcase, said "how’s in going, blondie?" and walked away, leaving the suitcase at the Taxi stand. Uh. Hello.

So I went and found the nearest police officer, told him exactly that, and he rolled his eyes and told me that on the list of things he dosen’t want happening, that was pretty much at the top. Super. So he went to check out the suitcase and after a minute or two, came back and told me that there were wires poking out of the bag and that they would have to clear the area. The whole area around Penn Station!

And then he said he was just kidding and I hit him. Yes, I hit a police officer. Not hard or anything. But I was half expecting the cuffs to come out and for me to miss the show. Anyway, there were no wires sticking out of the bag- it was just a homeless guy’s clothes. But (although I committed battery on a police officer) I did my civicpost9/11new yorkseesomethingsaysomething part. And I didn’t go to jail and got to see The Cure. It’s all good.

Thanks Robin for the pictures! And let me know about Billy Joel Idol. Maybe I can find another unattended suitcase!

Timmy is turning into a photographer. He’s always asking for the camera (thankfully, not for mine) and snapping away. And the first thing he says while holding it? "give me a biiiiiig smile!". That’s my boy!

And on one final photography business note…today is the last day to get the lower rates. Tommorrow, prices increase by $25.

Jack & Patrick started baseball camp today and really liked it. A bunch of their friends are doing it too which is always good. I think Patrick liked it a little more than Jack did- you know Jack and the whole running thing. Believe it or not, I didn’t take the camera (I can hear you gasping in disbelief). I am so burnt from the weekend’s shoots. I will take pix of them at baseball camp before it ends next week- but in the meantime here are some pictures (see told you I was so behind) from the end of their little league season. This was the All-Star game.

Timmy started ‘camp’ today with his best buddy, Jack. He had a great time and really liked the teacher and the class, and especially the playground and water table. Again, no camera so no pictures.

Spent the entire afternoon at the "crunchy club" in the pool (well, the kids were in the pool). It was nice. Maybe I’ll make it to the beach sometime this summer. Ya know, the beach club that I paid half of this year that I have only seen once so far this summer? Yeah, that one.

I am now 5 full shoots backlogged in the editing department. And staying up til 1am (at least) everynight does not seem to be remedying the situation. You just know how happy I am about that. For those of you waiting for your shoots, I’m going as fast as I can and will contact you the minute they are up. Okay, enough blogging. Back to editing.