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Entries for July 2009




Behind The Green Door

July 31, 2009 01:12 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

If you're an heirloom Bourbon turkey, this is where you live, if you're lucky enough to live on the Griggstown Quail Farm near Princeton. Yes, behind this door, strut and peck some of the most delicious birds around.

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Stand and Deliver

July 30, 2009 12:45 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

I don't have a thing for FedEx trucks, but something about this one caught my eye while the driver was making a delivery...

 
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Tags: Morristown | photography | FedEx

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Another Hurt Locker

July 28, 2009 01:02 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

Kathryn Bigelow's riveting movie, The Hurt Locker, about a U.S. Army bomb squad in Iraq, has the verisimilitude of a documentary. The title is bomb squad slang for the world of pain the soldiers will be in if they fail to "clear" one of the roadside improvised explosive devices they spend their days tracking down and disarming.

Somewhat closer to home, I visited another, much milder kind of hurt locker...

 

 
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Tags: Caldwell | photography | automobiles | Precision Motors

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No Tick, No Tock

July 27, 2009 02:39 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

At the center of town, the clock above a bank is beautiful. So what if it doesn't work...

 

 

 

 
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Tags: photography | Roselle Park | clocks

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Thanks, But No Thanks

July 24, 2009 01:08 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

Not sure what this vehicle delivers, but unless it's laughs, I think I'll pass...

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That's Some Banana Ya Got There

July 23, 2009 01:40 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

Odd to peel the whole banana before taking a bite, especially a trombone of a banana like this one, unless you were going to slice it into cornflakes or something. But whatever works.

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Tags: photography | Roselle Park | bananas

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Una Pizza Napoletana 2

July 22, 2009 01:47 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

Having finished his dough, master pizza chef Antonino Esposito, visiting restaurant A Mano in Ridgewood from Naples, Italy, demonstrated the correct way to turn a bowl full of whole peeled Italian tomatoes (pomodoro) into sauce for his classic Neapolitan-style pizza...

 

 
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Tags: Ridgewood | photography | Pizza | Esposito, Antonino

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