After nearly six hours of intense concentration on a hot afternoon and fighting off impulses to blink, Lenin finally managed to focus his hatred for capitalism like a magnifying glass and set ablaze a neighboring building in the East Village.

Happy Birthday America!

Sadly, singer and actress Lena Horne has passed, ending a hell of a life that lasted 92 years and experienced the best and worst of human nature throughout the past nine decades. R.I.P. Lena Horne.

Lights out New York City.

New Yorkers had to wade through this weekend, but at least there weren’t any dangerous bolts of lightning flashing down from the skies to add to the chaos of our flooding sidewalks.

The sidewalks of New York. Keep the music alive.

And the sidewalk angels echo halleluja…