A class act: by “we the people”. And nothing was fishy. Alll photos by Paul Goldfinger,, Blogfinger.net. 5/30/26 One click to enlarge Paul Goldfinger’s images.
Hey….Wake up, it’s over there!
Conversing, phoning and finding furniture.
Live your best life, and she does, says she.
So he says!
Her sweet yellow dress is awe inspiring.
She’s happy–a ready smile, and the yellow dress.. Not exactly “Into the Woods” But a pretty girl helps elevate the mood
Make a deal.
Despite the name change, no new messaging was evident. There was little diversity of people and not much laughter, dancing, and kids. There was lots of clothing and some inexpensive jewelry. And where was the music?
I was busy staying warm and engaging my photo shoot. Maybe other opinions will surface. What say you about this market formerly know as for fleas?
By 3 o’clock all was finishing, and there was a traffic jam.
Now is the time to sign up for the Town-Wide yard sales. Contact us (Eileen and Paul Goldfinger) by email; Blogfinger@verizon.net.
OG Town-Wide sales
2020 Yard Sales. Heck Avenue, OG. All photos by Paul Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net
OG yard sale Paul Goldfinger photo.
By Eileen and Paul Goldfinger, Editors, Blogfinger.net. Contact; Blogfinger@verizon.net
We are beginning to collect addresses for the June 27, 2026 Town-Wide Yard Sale.
We anticipate an enjoyable and rewarding sale as we have had for the last 14 years.
From now until the sales, we will have this post in place, and this will be where we will communicate information and this is where we will begin posting “THE LIST.” which will contain the addresses of all participants including cross streets and, eventually items for sale. If. you want to have a sale, contact us by email at Blogfinger@verizon.net.
We will post the “LIST” here and add new addresses as they come in to Blogfinger@verizon.net New participants can be added to “The List” as the addresses arrive to us from now through June 26. Tell your friends; give them Blogfinger.net to find this basic information.
Send us your address sign-up now, and add your items for sale whenever you wish. We will save the item “List” until 1-2 weeks before. We don’t want early birds knocking on your doors. The List will be published here starting in early June. But you can start signing up now. We will not post your names unless you request that. Send your list to Blogfinger@verizon.net
Only addresses and, later, sale items will be on the list. The latter will be revealed about one week before touch down.
We are leaving this post here until June 27 so that those who go to Blogfinger.net for yard-sale information will not get lost. The content of this post will vary until the sale.
About parking it should be OK. If you drive into town, bring a bike and park anywhere.
This an Ocean Grove event run by We-The-People, and we expect that mostly Grovers will show up as before, but out-of-towners are always welcome to our historic town . Bring the kids, the dogs, your band, or your saxophone or flugelhorn. Have music at your sale.
Sellers will need a Neptune Township yard sale permit for $5.00. Get them at the Neptune Township Town Hall-building dept.
We have fliers now to help publicize the event and we welcome efforts by participants to publicize the sales. If you want to have some fliers, stop at our porch at 113 Mt. Hermon Way at Delaware. Help yourself to fliers which will be in a box. You can attach them legally to your porch columns.
Blogfinger headquarters 5/28/26. Click once to read. Ocean Grove
Seller groups of neighbors or friends will enhance the success, fun and games. We can use some volunteer citizen reporters with bikes who could monitor and photograph the sales and report back to the Blogfinger headquarters.
QUESTIONS? Email to Eileen and me: Blogfinger@verizon.net
This post will be evolving, so stay tuned.
Eileen and Paul Goldfinger.Editors at Blogfinger.net
It’s about the people of the Buckhead section of Atlanta breaking away from the city. Issue, of course, is runaway crime and no enforcement.
Buckhead pays somewhere between 50-70 percent of the total taxes of Atlanta, depending on who is reporting it. Sure sounds familiar.
Has also been reported by other media who typically lead with the race card.
Hoping to get to OG sometime this fall. My parents lived in Ocean Grove.
Thanks for all you do, for so many years, in trying to stimulate an apathetic homeowner base.
Rick Edwards
August 5, 2021.
Editor’s note. (2024). History shows us that OG cannot secede based on a vote of OG residents alone. Instead all of Neptune must approve, and that wouldn’t and didn’t happen. But in Atlanta it appears that secession is acquired by a vote of the affected citizens–a much fairer action.
“Nu Couché” by Amadeo Modigliani was painted in 1917. It just sold for $170.4 million and is considered to be a great masterpiece. NY Times 11/10/15
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.
Re-posted and slightly edited from the original 2015 BF post. This topic reminds me of recent (2017) debates about the definition of “harassment” of women.
Definition of objectifying women: ” Female sexual objectification by a male involves a woman being viewed primarily as an object of male sexual desire, rather than as a whole person.” (Wikipedia )
But the definition of objectification includes more than just that. It also includes a broader statement as “treating anyone or any idea as a physical object.”
The painting “Nu Couché” by Amedeo Modigliani (above) sold yesterday (2015) at Christie’s for $170.4 million and made headline news all over the art world, but the reporting did not raise the issue of Modigliani’s objectifying women.
After all, ever since man could draw a picture on a cave wall he would draw a naked woman. When photography was invented in the early 19th century, what do you think was first photographed? And, of course naked women have captured the creative juices of many male and female artists over the years, and the images are not always complimentary of the female form.
There are some female photographers who have achieved fame by photographing women, sometimes in a highly sexualized way. I wonder how many of those critics who attacked Blogfinger would have criticized Ruth Bernhard, a famous artist known for her erotic black and white images of the female nude. Her work was compared to that of Ansel Adams, and in 2014, a retrospective of her photographs was shown in New York City at the Peter Fetterman Gallery. The exhibit was called “The Eternal Nude.” She also has published a number of books of her work and she has won many awards.
Can anyone seriously claim that only men can be accused of “objectification?”
Picasso is a good example of an artist who loved to paint and sculpt women, often with bulging eyes and multiple breasts (see below.) That painting (“Les Femmes d’Alger” 1955) sold for $179.4 million in 2015. Would any of you feminists accuse him of objectification? And how about Georgia O’Keefe whose paintings of flowers were often likened to female genitalia?
The sale of the Nu Couché reminded me of two incidents this past summer when Ocean Grovers, two women and one man, accused me of “objectifying” women in our series “Girls in Their Summer Clothes.” You can search above to see some of those photographs from that series, but you will find that none of the women are naked, disrespected, or even objectified.
On one occasion we posted a photo of a female OG lifeguard in a bikini munching on a Weezer ice. The image was taken by Jean Bredin, a woman on our staff. Would she be accused of objectification? Here is a link to Jean Bredin’s photo;
There are incidences when the phrase “objectification of women” might fairly fit, as when a woman’s body is used to sell a product, but our photographs do not fit by any reasonable standard, and I believe the accusation has been overdone in our society.
Sometimes political correctness results in nonsensical allegations, such as when feminists say that photographing or looking at a woman in a mini-skirt is objectifying her. The attacks on Blogfinger fall into that category.
Women have been making great strides in the US in an effort to be appreciated as whole individuals and not the sum of their parts. Attacking responsible segments of our society such as Blogfinger for objectification of women is to be small minded, to distort reality, to divert attention from the important goals of women, and to turn them into victims when just the opposite is necessary.
This couple skipped the fireworks for a private walk in the Grove 7/3/23. Lake Avenue, along Wesley Lake. Click once to enlarge. Paul Goldfinger photograph. Blogfinger.net
There used to be a jazz festival in Sunset Park years ago, but now it is back, The A. Park music scene needs more jazz. In Ocean Grove, home to the Great Auditorium, it is sad that there is so little jazz–it is a perfect venue for jazz.
“Just Squeeze Me…” Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
