The New York Giants made the Superbowl this year. I watched the game with some Auxiliary cop friends at the precinct –  lots of Superbowl food: wings, pizza, tacos, chips – and hilarious commentary.

The NY Giants won! Go Big Blue!- there was a parade 2 days later – a great day out for New Yorkers

By the way there was a ridiculous media fuss about MIA flipping the finger during the Madonna half time performance. It is only rock n roll …take a look at this photo I shot of her a few years ago – it is just part of her thing – if you have fabulous fingernails you want to show them one way or another.

It snowed upstate last week. The races at the Monticello Harness Raceway do not stop – no matter the weather. After training on the icy track in the morning the horses are steaming and the ‘drivers’ spattered with mud. The stable hands bathe the horses and cover them with blankets, the farrier comes by to change their shoes if necessary. The races start after midday. The Monticello Raceway opened in 1958, the track is half a mile.  In 2006 there was a record handle (money wager for a race) of $1,432,217. HBO has a new series ‘Lucky’ about horse racing in Santa Ana and author Paolo Hewitt’s book ‘about some blokes in a pub buying a racehorse, has been made into a film. As for me, I have been wanting to take photographs at the track for a while, finally spent a day there shooting with my friend Gudrun -and need to go back to shoot more.