Okay...

Let's begin a new week.

I have a whole bunch of photos from this past Saturday here today. (I'll have more all week.) So many of them are being sent in every week by publicist Laura Manske. But a whole lotta people have been shooting out there and sending their work in to the site.

Very cool.

And I'm gonna post some more video, too.

But let me start off once again by saying... THANKS!

It was another one of those days... the kind of days I'm used to but I will never take for granted.

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Man!

There were several times during the day when I was laughing so hard that my face hurt.

And we had another young couple who just got married happen by. Probably have video of that moment tomorrow or the next day.

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So, check back tomorrow and I'll have more. And here's a gallery of a whole bunch of photos from last Saturday and all this summer so far in Central Park.

Click to visit this year's gallery

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BTW -- if you're gonna be in or around New York City on December 11th, you are NOT gonna wanna miss this year's "Something'th Annual Year End Concert". I'm already talkin' to the kids about it and we're gonna have an amazing night. I'll start lettin' you guys know more about it soon.

But for now, if you're new around here you should know that there are lots of videos, lots of FREE songs to download... lots of reasons to browse The Archive.

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And listen.... I'm not gonna let this go because I feel so strongly about it. (And folk-singer/peace-activist legend Mr. Pete Seeger is doing a concert tonight in The Village in support of exactly the same principle I've been singing about for the past 2 weeks.)

If you oppose the building and location of Cordoba House downtown... you're simply wrong.

You are simply allowing fear and anger slip in line in front of Principle and Courage. Understandable... but wrong.

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO

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Here's a little re-post.

There was a time in this country when it was popular and it felt good to root for the underdog who was doing the right thing. It was cool to stand up for the "little guy" who was outnumbered. It was considered noble and courageous to stand with a minority who's voice was being drowned out by a mob. We saw that quality celebrated in movies like "The Alamo" and even "My Bodyguard" or "The Karate Kid".

But now in America, it seems that everyone wants to be a part of the mob. When a small number of committed citizens, when a minority shows up to stand up for principle, the angry mob shouts louder as they point to "polls" that say more people are huddling with them in their anger and fear. From lightweights like Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck pointing tirelessly at their "ratings", to the people who've been emailing me in the last week pointing to the "polls" of people who are angered by or afraid of a minority in this country, it seems to me to be a disturbing trend -- that there is correctness in numbers, that "might makes right", and that because there are more people comfortable in the darkness, that the darkest room is the best place to be.

I dunno. Maybe it's always been this way. Maybe I've been kidding myself about the character of this country's citizenry. I hope not. I'm not sure about any of this. It just feels this way through my experiences over the past 9 years or so -- and especially in the past 2 weeks.

I used to think Americans really dug standing behind the little guy who's standing up for principle. Maybe I was wrong. (I've been wrong before. That's when I learn.)

On that note...

Here are a few thousand people standing up for principle and takin' it to the streets last Friday night. This event was organized by a group called New York Neighbors for American Values. Please check them out.

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HEY!!!! There are always some fun videos making their way around the country and around the world. Here's one about the upcoming final installments of the Harry Potter series of movies. It's a song about the character, Hermione Granger.

Here... click on the image to check out the song and watch the video.

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Now one more thing about that song!

IT IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD!!!

I'm serious!

Now you can download the song itself, and walk around with it in your ipod or mp3 player and sing it to yourself on the bus, in the subway, in the car... while you're on facebook.

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OKAY!

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Now, that other song about "Facebook... Idiot" is still rocketing around the world. As of today, almost a quarter of a million people all around the planet are passing it around. (Must struck a chord inside a few people.)

If you haven't seen it yet...

Click to watch the video of the new facebook song

Pass it on to all you friends. Post in anywhere you want! Now one more thing about that "facebook" song! You can also get that one for yourself!

Click on this link and also get this song right now!!!

Click to get the song

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Okay now...

Here are a couple of different galleries.

Here...

CLICK ON THIS PHOTO TO VISIT
A LITTLE PHOTO GALLERY
FROM SUMMER 2009

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I'll be back tomorrow with another update.

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Thanks for everything.

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PEACE