Amat victoria curam!

We saw some interesting photography exhibitions in New York and met with Elliott Erwitt.

Remember cute Jason from Amercian Pie? When I saw him this evening in his new of-broadway play: Boys he was not so cute anymore - he is FAT, old and rather ugly. The pay was ok though... ;-)

Roger Moore was around the corner promoting his memoirs - so I dropped by to say hello. He recognized me immediately so I could leave Barnes and Noble without a signed copy...

Sprout business magazine made a list of the 50 companies who are challenging their business competition with innovative concepts. Zomoto is one of them challenging the automotive industry to think about new ways of doing business.

When in New York at Thursday there's only one thing to do: Go to Seth Rudetsky's Broadway Chatterbox at Don't tell Mama. Seth invites some stars of the Broadway Musical scene - they chat and then sing some songs. We were very lucky that Seth invited Natalie Toro and Kevin Early - they are starring in Tales of the City - which due to the economic crisis will close in two weeks. It was fun and interesting to hear about life as a broadway star. The re-auditions, the 8 performances a week and the suddenly endings of shows. It is very tough. Natalie and Kevin sang brilliantly  and Seth was A-Maz-ing: Brava! (what ever).

Broadway was empty by the way: restaurants were half full - tickets available. The crisis really struck hard here.

On our way to New York we decided to stop at Atlantic City which is just rejuvenated with new casinos and a new pier. It was fun to spend some time there and to drive along the Atlantic ocean.

If you were wondering why proposition 8 was amended here why: Some straight people were fooled into believing that when gays can marry, they themselves cannot. That's why the (poor) Pattersons recently made a huge financial sacrifice –
they withdrew $50,000 from their savings and donated it to the Yes on
Proposition 8 campaign.

"It was a decision we made very prayerfully
and carefully," said Pam Patterson, 48. "Was it an easy decision? No.
But it was a clear decision, one that had so much potential to benefit
our children and their children." Pam wake up! If I look at your boys at least two of them are GAY - maybe even all of them. So let's hope that in 10 years Pam  and Rick are confronted with reality and see that everybody has the basic right to love an other and to marry him or her.

Now that the World has a new leader in Barack we have to be carefull not to expect to much. There's only so much a guy can do (in one term). People all our the world have (to high) expectations of this new president. He cannot let wars, poverty, economic crisises etc. go away instantly. What he can do is to inspire people to do their part - to be a leader in solving our problems and to listen to people whom need help. Barack will be tested, people will be dissapointed and he will make mistakes - but for now: he is the best possible leader we could have.

Meanwhile in California, Arizona and Florida it seems that voters said yeas to ballot initiatives with makes it impossible for gays to marry in those states. This is the other side of America.
What will happen with all the guys that already married? Luckily love will conquer everything :-))
Barack must appoint some new judges to the supreme court and settle this for once and for all: he owes us that.

CNN used a hologram image for the first time and you know what? It really looked like Startrek with the blue shining and all.

We decided to stay in the hotel and to watch election night at the huge LCD screens in our suite. We ordered roomservice, got us some extra drinks and deserts and settled for a long evening. We had Fox, ABC, NBC and CNN - together with the NYT, Hufington Post and Google News on our laptops. CNN turned out to be the best way to view the results. They even had holograms of reporters beamed in from Chicago. It was silent outside on the streets of Philadelphia... It seemed everyone was watching - until 09:30 when Pensylvania fell to Obama and the honking stared: IT WAS ALL OVER. It was fun to see the election night of the McCains in the Biltmore Hotel Phoenix (Where I spend New Year once zillion years ago) - the contrast with the Barack evenet in Chicago couldn't be bigger.
Oprah was in tears, as was Jessy Jackson and some other millions of Americans...
It was history in the making and I think that in years to come people will remember where they were the evening that Barack was elected President of the United States.
I followed Barack for more then 4 years and wrote endless amounts of posts about him - I am not sure what I can write about next :-))

Guess what? There's only one: OBAMA...

Two guys: Barack & Joe

It must have been difficult for Hillary to rally for Obama the last weeks - but she did and how! It shows that made of the right stuff. I hope that she will play a role in reforming the health care system in the USA. She certainly deserved to play an important role in future government.

Pilgrims returning from Multan in Pakistan.

All the networks are showing non stop in HD election news counting down the seconds and presenting ever new poll results. Everybody getting crazy, very nervous and anxious. Commercials of Barack are constantly airing and esspecially here in Pensylvania the race is very very tight. Both candidates must win this state to win...

We arrived in Philadelphia via Newark Airport easy with our Towncar during a short ride. The stay in the Four Seasons is terrific and Philadelphia it self is great. Here's where the US of A really started and we couldn't have a better start of our election trip then going to independence hall and see how history was made. Pennsylvania has zero tax on clothes - so we bought some (and more). Television here is 24/7 election news - which is exactly what we want... ;-)

Three little words: Yes We Can!

Four days to go: Four mistakes made by McCain:
1) Choosing Sarah Palin as running mate
2) Voting with George Bush 90% of the time
3) Developing wrong policies that don't work
4) Losing his own personality during the campaign

5 days left: 5 states Obama must win:

1) Pennsylvania
2) Virginia
3) Ohio
4) Wisconsin
5) Washington