In Loving Memory of Joe Doyle

📷 In loving memory of Joe Doyle, a well‐known member of the community, who died on 22 March. 😢

(All photographs by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam, under a Creative Commons BY‐NC license.)

Bears Are Really Friendly

📷 I’m looking forward to the New York Bear Den gathering on the thirteenth. Bears are really friendly. #NYBearDen #JacksonHeights #gaynyc #gaybear #bear #gaykiss #winter (at NY Bear Den @ Queens Pride House)

📆 New York Bear Den (and Bob’s birthday) at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 9 January 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

More of my pictures of that event can be viewed on Facebook.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

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A New Year Means by Definition a New Month…

📷 A new year means by definition a new month, so that means another New York Bear Den gathering is upcoming. Look at the gorgeous #cheesecake someone brought in 2011. #food #dessert #cake #nybearden #gaybear #newyear #gaynyc (at NY Bear Den @ Queens Pride House)

📆 New York Bear Den at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 9 January 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

More of my pictures of that event can be viewed on Facebook.

This idea of a “New Year’s cheesecake” is apparently not a new one although it was new to me. See also

• Veronica Chan, Instagram, 31 Dec. 2012.
• Veronica Chan, Instagram, 1 Jan. 2013.
• “Countdown Cheesecake Recipe,” Taste of Home, n.d., reproduced from Quick Cooking, November–December 2002, 59.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

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Some of the Sweets at the New York Bear Den Winter Holiday Party

📷 Some of the sweets—some of them homemade—at the New York Bear Den #winter holiday party. #NYBearDen #JacksonHeights #sweet #cookie #Yule #food #NYC #gaybear #bear #gaynyc (at NY Bear Den @ Queens Pride House)

📆 New York Bear Den winter holiday party at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 9 December 2012. (Photographs by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

Also available on Tumblr.

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Volunteering for New York Bear Den in an Oriental Waistcoat

📷 Volunteering for New York Bear Den in an Oriental waistcoat. 🐻 #NYBearDen #gay #gaynyc #gaybear #bear #gayjew #NYC #JacksonHeights #winter #gpoy #me Image created with #Snapseed (at NY Bear Den @ Queens Pride House)

📆 New York Bear Den gathering at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 12 December 2010. (Photograph by Chaz Antonelli.)

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Bear Cookies at New York Bear Den

📷 Every New York Bear Den gathering, pâtissier Carlin brings homemade pastries, like these bear cookies with Yule‐colored buttons. 🎅🐻🍪 #NYBearDen #NYBD #pastry #cookie #bear #gaybear #NYC #JacksonHeights #gay #Yule #winter #PastryChef (at NY Bear Den @ Queens Pride House)

📆 New York Bear Den gathering at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 12 December 2010. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

More of my pictures of this event can be viewed on Facebook.

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New York Bear Den Gave DVDs as Gifts

📷 At the winter holiday party, New York Bear Den gave DVDs as gifts to all in attendance! 🐻 🎅 #bear #nybearden #Yule #NYC #JacksonHeights #winter #gift #gaybear #gaynyc (at NY Bear Den @ Queens Pride House)

📆 New York Bear Den winter holiday party at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 9 December 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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Volunteering at New York Bear Den

📷 Volunteering at New York Bear Den. 🐻 #gpoy #NYBearDen #JacksonHeights #gaybear #bear #gaynyc #NYC #NYBD

📆 New York Bear Den at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 6 December 2009. (Photograph by Chaz Antonelli.)

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The Upcoming New York Bear Den Winter Holiday Party

New York Bear Den will have their monthly gathering on Sunday and it’ll be the annual winter holiday party with a gift exchange. If you are a “bear” or are a man who is attracted to bears, or if you are uncertain but feel you might benefit from an environment in which you can socialize with friendly gay men who are not so hung up on body issues, I encourage visiting us. The details are on the Facebook event page and the Meetup event page. 🐻

📷 In the photograph: New York Bear Den gathering at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 12 December 2010. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

More of my pictures of that event can be viewed on Facebook.

Carlin’s cupcakes

Carlin’s cornflake cupcakes at the New York Bear Den gathering. #bear #NYBD #cupcake

☞ New York Bear Den gathering at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 11 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

New York Bear Den Promotional Drive

Photograph by Chaz Antonelli. Hamming it up in a shot that simultaneously promotes Bear Den’s lounge atmosphere and Internet stations. New York Bear Den at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 12 June 2011. ────────

Chaz put up a Web page promoting New York Bear Den utilizing many of the suggestions I gave him at our last gathering on 12 June. I had been musing about why Bear Café had been so outstandingly popular while Bear Den, built on a very similar model, is less well‐attended and can’t seem to even take in a month’s rent to the Diversity Center of Queens at a single gathering. However, existing aspects of Bear Den we might take for granted could draw new participants: I thought promoting Bear Den in part as a lounge with eclectic music might draw the type of men who frequent venues like Nowhere. Also, relegating the board games to one specific table would open up other tables to general conversation and make us appear less like a gaming group like Board Stiff was. Chaz came up with the timely ideas to promote the air conditioning, Internet access and the remodeled (or soon‐to‐be remodeled) washrooms. We need to apply these ideas to other modes of promotion, and hopefully our attendance will grow.

A steering committee meeting is tentatively scheduled for the thirteenth to discuss the initiatives the Den will put in place.

Related

• Chaz Antonelli, “What’s new at the Bear Den?,” n.d. [June 2011].
• Chaz Antonelli, “2011-06-12 Bear Den,” photo album, Picasa Web Albums, shot 12 June 2011.

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Overweight, Bearded Gay Men, Who Call Themselves Bears

Photograph by Valerie (ucumari), under a Creative Commons license.

Three of my favorite local Queens organizations were mentioned in a New York Times article last week. Unfortunately, it was about how Congressman Anthony Weiner had to cancel appearances at events organized by two of them—the Queens Lesbian & Gay Pride Committee and Queens Pride House—and it referred, unnamed and described rather unflatteringly, to New York Bear Den. Reporter Dan Bilefsky wrote

On Monday evening, Mr. Weiner…canceled an appearance at a forum at Queens Pride House in Jackson Heights on the implications of health care reform for the gay community.

On Sunday, the congressman…did not appear at a gay pride march in Queens.

Pauline Park, President of Pride House, said Mr. Weiner, a proponent of gay rights, would have found a sympathetic crowd at the community center, which has hosted events ranging from Nepalese dance troupes to support groups for H.I.V-positive mothers and fathers and mixers for overweight, bearded gay men, who call themselves bears.

Related

• Dan Bilefsky, “Weiner Cancels Another Public Appearance, at Gay Forum,” section of “Weiner Says He Sent Photos and Lied, but Won’t Resign,” City Room, The New York Times, 6 June 2011.
• Christopher Dufault, “Someone Needs a Bear Hug!,” Internals Plural, 6 June 2011.

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November 2010 micro-content.

📷 See my pictures of the Queer Rising night march in Chelsea and Greenwich Village, and Rockbar thereafter. http://on.fb.me/bIs3Y9 —1 November (Jk, Bz, FF)

📷 See my pictures of the New York Bear Den Halloween gathering at the Diversity Center of Queens, Jackson Heights. http://on.fb.me/bIs3Y9 —1 November (Jk, Bz, FF)

…learned what the term “Morton’s fork” means from this article about the proposed New York City Charter revision. http://nyti.ms/9EoE8L —2 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF, FF)

…suggests installing the free Symbola font because he likes using emoji characters newly supported in Unicode 6.0. 😉 http://bit.ly/2d7HeU —2 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF, FF)

…was “helped” to vote by someone with an invariably befuddled look on her face who confused the surname and given name of everyone on line. —2 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb) She even “informed” a registered voter she was not registered, until her coworker, who was probably used to the ineptitude, caught the error before that voter was turned away.

💣 Islamic terrorists addressed a parcel bomb to a gay synagogue, although it was not intended to reach its addressees. http://bit.ly/cV8Ymt —3 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

[Video favorite.] desi spiderman official song – SPIDERMAN SPOOF —3 November (FF, Fb)

My photos of Queens Pride House volunteers at Friend’s Tavern; Peter’s “Fashion Night Out” party, Music Box, Queens. http://on.fb.me/9gHto9 —3 November (Jk, Bz, FF)

…bids farewell to songwriter Jerry Bock with a gorgeous song oft performed by old friend Miss Understood. http://youtu.be/PoaDq2ROHqA ♫ —4 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

[Video favorite.] Test Yourself: Stroop Effect —5 November (FF, Fb) …hopes you have a fun viewing this.

My photos of the “Garage Classics: What Can You Do for Me?” Dance 208, the LGBT Community Center, Greenwich Village. http://on.fb.me/9gHto9 —5 November (Jk, Bz, FF)

🔥 Šabbāt šālôm and happy Dīvālī. Did you light your lamps? —5 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb)

[Video favorite.] Rachel Maddow Explores Right Wing Lying Echo Chamber —6 November (FF, Fb) ▴ Republicans and conservatives are so evil that they feel they can lie anytime they like in order to promote their agenda. The world is a scary place on which to live when their constituents ignore the truth because lies make them feel better. ▴ Some idiots believe that merely disagreeing with someone is an infringement on freedom of speech. Some idiots also believe that freedom of speech means that every person’s beliefs or anything that can be read in a book, a periodical or on the Internet is of equal validity. Thus they believe anything to be truthful if said by someone whom they support. They believe their choosing from any sources whatsoever the ones that make them feel best will result in finding unquestionable truths, especially if other idiots go along with it. This is not how reality works, numbskulls. ▴ The conservative leaders are evil, their constituents are at best misguided, and the “middle management” just know how to echo the rhetoric. … Don’t get me started on why gays or anyone would want to support the military and its genocidal policies against Arabs and Afghans! Do you have any idea how much gays are suffering in ʻIraq since the US came in?

[Video favorite.] Bill Maher on John Stewarts FALSE EQUIVALENCY Nov 5, 2010 —6 November (FF, Fb) As comedians and television personalities, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert did even better than I had hoped, but ultimately, I agree with Bill Maher.

…dreamed that, in a pinch, the leftover liquid from a can of Spam could be used to destroy the Wicked Witch of the West. 💤 —7 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb)

📷 See my pictures of Queens Pride House’s Stonewall history talk by Rich Wandel on “Spirit Day,” Jackson Heights. http://on.fb.me/9gHto9 —7 November (Jk, Bz, FF)

[Video favorite.] BBC Middle East Business Report: Designer Dishdasha —8 November (FF, Fb) Saudi fashion that mixes traditional and contemporary aspects. Thanks to Gay Middle East for a link to the video.

…can’t spell “intergenerational” without “rational.” 👴 —8 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb)

After anti-gay bullying, fourteen-year-old Brandon Bitner ended his life in front of a tractor trailer in Pennsylvania. http://bit.ly/aNUfX3 —8 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

📰 A violent attack in Jackson Heights steps from my building on an employee of a business I frequent. http://bit.ly/bzAO62 —8 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

…commemorates the birthday of Carl Sagan, gone from the universe fourteen years now. http://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g 🌎 —9 November (FF, Jk, Bz, FF, Fb)

⛤ Activities for Kifkif’s “Moroccan National LGBT Day” (اليوم الوطني للمثليين المغاربة) were held in Rabat last month. http://bit.ly/bNSsTe —9 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

[Video favorite.] Surprise Unfriending! —10 November (FF, Fb)

[Video favorite.] Bollywierd Clips – WTF —11 November (FF, Fb) ▴ The song “Idhi oka nandanavanam” from the 1985 Telugu movie Adavi donga. When you have had enough of the original, take a look at a parody of it: 🔗. ▴ Yes, the video is a fairly accurate depiction of a typical street scene here in Jackson Heights, except that on 73^rd Street they’d be singing in Bengali. (Not a lot of Telugus in this neighb.)

…notes another great contribution Near Eastern people made to Western culture. 🔗 —11 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

…suspected even before reading this article that Yiddish meşugas משוגעת should probably be spelled ‏*משוגעות. http://bit.ly/COGc8 📖 —11 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

…thanks Sally for a great Ambassador Program event in Astoria last night that truly fostered appreciation of the depth of Egyptian cuisine. —12 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb)

“Michele Bachmann Totally Looks Like Bat Boy” —12 November (Fb, FF)

…saw a screening of La Mission at Queens Pride House and really liked it (and thought Benjamin Bratt was gorgeous). http://bit.ly/bLbdY6 🎦 —12 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

📷 See my pictures of the cast and crew of BearCity at the Rockbear “Underbear” party, Rockbar, Greenwich Village. http://on.fb.me/b0n2g8 —13 November (Jk, Bz, FF)

…is excited an Amalgamated Bank will open in his neighborhood. —13 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb) It is a labor bank in which I have had accounts for decades when I lived in the Bronx. Once the branch in Jackson Heights opens, I will no longer need to travel to Long Island City or Manhattan for transactions that need to be done in person. There’s a 24-hour a.t.m. closer to where I live that doesn’t charge me fees, but when it’s broken or empty of cash, I can trot down to 78^th Street for a no-fee alternative.

…is winding down from a fun weekend that included the FurBall and Bear Den’s great Thanksgiving event. 🔗 🐻 —14 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

📷 See my pictures of the Queens Pride House Halloween Extravaganza in Jackson Heights. http://on.fb.me/b0n2g8, http://on.fb.me/cGM6Ou 🎃 —15 November (Jk, Bz, FF)

Content on Delicious. —16 November (FF)

🚗 The FBI secretly placed a tracking device in the car of a young Egyptian-American for undisclosed reasons. 🔗 —16 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

🍒 The Jackson Heights Greenmarket will now be open year-round. 🔗 —17 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

…has finally, now that autumn is drawing to a close, finished uploading his New York pictures from the summer. http://on.fb.me/9F42Sa 📷 —18 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb) ▴ On DSCN4054 2010.08.29: It turns so‐so photographs into masterpieces. Some stunning photographs of me and friends have the view from this park in the background. And there was a time in my life when I’d visit this pier nearly every weekend in warmer months. —31 March 2012 ▴ That’s a good idea. I have not been to Gantry Plaza State Park, although a friend of mine shot some lovely pictures there. (Judy K., “Gantry Plaza State Park,” The Outdoor New Yorker, 8 May 2011.) —31 March 2012

“There can be no honor…serving in a shameful war. [G]ays deserve civil rights. But Iraqis deserve them just as much….” http://bit.ly/aDvdTY —18 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF, FF)

My photos of the Dance 208 Halloween Ball, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, Greenwich Village. http://on.fb.me/d2IP9S —19 November (Jk, Bz, FF)

☠ “Utah leads the nation in suicide among men 15–24,” including gay youths David Standley and Tim Tilley, and others. http://bit.ly/bbs5zI —19 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF) … See also http://bit.ly/csItmL.

☠ Eighteen-year-old Josh Wilkerson was bludgeoned to death after purportedly making sexual advances toward his killer. http://bit.ly/bPJiEv —19 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

⚔ “Does Opposing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Bolster US Militarism?” 🔗 —19 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF) ▴ If only the gay movement or any movement could truly be “ending discrimination in all of its forms,” but there are so many issues affecting us that we must pick our battles wisely. Gay people face poverty, inadequate health care, workplace discrimination, elevated suicide and addiction rates and staggering violence. (Recently here in New York City, gay men were abducted and tortured in the Bronx.) However somewhere along the line, self-styled gay leaders decided that getting married and serving in the military were the issues that should get the most money and attention. The gay community should only be too happy to temporarily put DADT on the back burner so we can fight our biggest problems rather than contribute to these obscene wars that have killed thousands of people and are based on greed and the dehumanization of Near Eastern peoples. ▴ … Had we somehow bundled (the repeal of DADT) with ENDA from the beginning, because ultimately it is an issue of employment discrimination, we might have avoided the glorification of the military, especially when people of color are so disproportionately employed by the military, and when the situation of gays in ʻIraq has deteriorated so dramatically since we took down their government. ¶… The gay movement could, for example, have made health care reform our biggest fight, putting our energies into obtaining a public option and securing health coverage for the large number of us who are dangerously underinsured. Instead we ignored it and made believe we would get health coverage if only we were allowed to marry, a ridiculous middle-class presumption that the gay uninsured are in committed relationships with people who already have coverage.

…knew he liked Australian pop music for a reason. http://youtu.be/Qho9o4zRwtE —19 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

♪ And so it was that later … the face of Alice Ghostley turned a whiter shade of pale. 🔗 😄 —21 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF)

[Video favorite.] Aga biyahe to mani bazaara (Khalil Sohrabi) —21 November (FF, Fb) I think I saw the back-up dancers voguing on Christopher Street a few weeks ago. The song is in the Balochi language, closely related to Kurdish.

📷 My pictures of Halloween in Jackson Heights, including the Beautification Group’s parade. http://on.fb.me/d2IP9S http://on.fb.me/90mGdZ —22 November (Jk, Bz, FF, FF)

The latest news on Víctor Mejía de los Santos, whose skull was broken with a metal bat three four blocks from my building. http://bit.ly/azrqp9 —23 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb, FF) See also 🔗.

…wishes a happy “Ḥag hā-Hôdāyâ” (חג ההודיה) to all his friends and is thankful they are a part of his life. 🍴 —25 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb)

[Video favorite.] You Can’t Gobble Me —25 November (FF, Fb)

📷 See my pictures of the Ambassador Program enjoying Egyptian cuisine at Cherry Café شيري كافية in Astoria. http://on.fb.me/h5cWs2 —27 November (Jk, Bz, FF)

…misread “donated” as “detonated” in an update: “I went to a local church…and d[et]onated 2 turkeys and plenty of sides for the homeless.” (🔗) —28 November (Jk, Bz, FF, Fb) I hope they weren’t still frozen!

[Video favorite.] Leila Forouhar – Bigharari | لیلا فروهر - بیقراری ‎—28 November (FF, Fb) ▴ …may sound surprisingly old-fashioned but remembers a time exemplified by this 1998 video when women singers could drown themselves in glamor without feeling obliged to act like strippers or pole dancers. The title “بیقراری” “Biqərari” means “restlessness.” ▴ Also view some of her later videos: http://youtu.be/UEBMh1UA1Q0 and http://youtu.be/kKZDpDBk3Q0.

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From Facebook Wall to Surface Web, November 2009.

▴ My pictures of the vigil, Hudson River Park Pier 45, and “optional mass,” the Church of St. Luke in the Fields, in memory of Jorge Steven López Mercado, Greenwich Village, 22 November 2009. —28 November (Facebook)

▴ …thanks Glenn for a sensational meal last night with such traditional Thanksgiving foods as gumbo and kašk u bâdenjân (کشک و بادنجان‎). —27 November (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …is too old to know or care about the distinctions between the “Pokémon,” “Digimon” and “Kakimon” (קאַק אים אָן‎). —26 November (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …came to the conclusion, after insufficient research, that the Czech word kavka (jackdaw) is not related to a name for the Caucasus, Kavkaz. —21 November (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ Pictures of the Jackson Heights Food Group at 친구네분식 ★ 포차 Friend’s Restaurant and the Cuckoo’s Nest, Woodside. —21 November (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …wonders which animal you are. —19 November (The Onion, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

☠ And another violent attack on a gay youth…. —19 November (khou.com, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

☠ Another outspoken and non-conforming gay youth has been brutally murdered. We’re fighting for our lives here, people. —18 November (The Baltimore Sun, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ Pictures of “The Fur Ball” at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, Greenwich Village. —17 November (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …finds this song cute but annoyingly repetitive. But who cares? Look at the wigs in the video instead. (Thanks to Bunny’s ’blog.) —17 November (greymanfilms on YouTube, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …thinks the logo for this snow cone (“gola” گولا) company looks a bit familiar. —16 November (Go·gola India, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ Pictures of Jeff’s (and Laura’s and Chet’s) birthday at Best Fuzhou Restaurant 松柏園福州小吃, Chinatown. —14 November (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …is glad a télévision series like Nova can teach him about Homo erectus. —14 November (Nova on PBS Video, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …appreciates photography and videography all the more because some art is inherently ephemeral. —13 November (xogml69 on YouTube, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ This is my kind of bar: lots of food and puns available. —12 November (English Whirled Wide on Facebook, Facebook)

▴ My pictures of the premier meeting of the LGBT Equality Coalition of Queens, Bayanihan Filipino Community Center/Philippine Forum, Woodside. —10 November (Facebook)

▴ …envisions a reworking of last year’s hit song into an acoustic Central European–style version called “Polka Face.” —9 November (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …commemorates the victims of Kristallnacht and thinks something similar could probably happen even nowadays. —9 November (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …wonders how many of his friends noticed the egregious grammatical errors he made in his last two posts. —7 November (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …thinks this article has some inaccuracies but nevertheless exemplifies some key reasons I [sic] moved to the neighborhood. —7 November (New York Globe, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …dreamed he had a cat painfully clinging to each of his feet that would scratch and claw all the more if their removal was [sic] attempted. —6 November (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …sometimes just needs some fun pop music. —6 November (seeme96 on YouTube, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ My pictures of New York Bear Den at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, Jackson Heights. —4 November (Facebook)

▴ …finds it ironic that brown boobies have white chests. —4 November (Wikipedia, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ My pictures of Halloween at View Bar, Chelsea, as well as some other costumed folk en route. —2 November (Facebook)

▴ My one hundred ninety-one pictures of signs of autumn in Jackson Heights. —2 November (Facebook)

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From Facebook Wall to Surface Web, 2–12 December 2009.

▴ …is again drawn to thinking about oil on this holiday, but in a different context than usual. —12 December (Tigrzeye516 on YouTube, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …wishes all an oily Ḥanukkâ. חג חנכה שׂמח!‏ ‎—11 December (yogev cohen on YouTube, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

☠ Another anti-gay assault in Jackson Heights. —10 December (New York Post, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ My pictures of New York Bear Den at the Diversity Center and อรุณี Arunee Thai Cuisine, Jackson Heights, 6 Dec. 2009. —9 December (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …is considering taking this health advice. —9 December (English Whirled Wide on Facebook, Facebook)

▴ My pictures of the Roosevelt Avenue Taco Cart Crawl in Elmhurst, Jackson Heights and Corona. —8 December (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …had forgotten how both economical and good a meal at a diner can be: main dish, salad, soda, potato, vegetable and dessert for ten dollars. —8 December (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …didn’t go out dancing tonight because he was still a bit sick, but the pneumonia‐like rales disappeared in time to make him wish he had. —5 December (Facebook, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …thinks linguistics and affected queenliness are a good combination. —5 December (--- M I S T E R D U N CAN---- IN ENGLAND ---- 2009 --- on YouTube, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …appreciates the camaraderie of opponents of religious fanaticism. (Thanks to Andrés.) —4 December (Yale Daily News, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …found a photograph of his used without credit (i.e., stolen) in an article about Jackson Heights. —4 December (কিছু বলার নাই, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ …appears in some pictures in this article about the Roosevelt Avenue Taco Crawl. —3 December (Interactive Journalism, Facebook|FriendFeed, Jaiku|FriendFeed)

▴ My pictures of my friend’s birthday celebration at Kiku (菊) Sushi, 235 Ninth Avenue, Chelsea, 23 November 2009. —2 December (Facebook)

▴ …had an innocuous mooning photograph (with a bare posterior) removed by Facebook. As he has commonly seen much more revealing and erotic pictures on Facebook, he suspects some “friend” reported it. —2 December (Facebook)

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