I couldn’t help myself. We all know that G.W. has done drugs in the past. We all know that he smoked weed and probably did cocaine. Some of us care, but most do not…

“Many thanks to the Ryan Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center for taking in a few of us out of the cold, giving us wine and snacks and letting us hang out for an evening. We really enjoyed ourselves.”

NICE Staff — New York, NY

NICE has marvelled at the transformative nature of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Central Park masterpiece, The Gates. We thought we’d never seen anything like it for a long, long time.

Until Hargo came along…

Yesterday was President’s Day, and the snowpeople amongst us were celebrating. New York City got five inches of snow Sunday night allowing for some creative snow building during yesterday’s holiday…

“Thank you, Hargo, for supplying us with the images to ‘The Desk Gates’ and ‘The Media Gates’, both of which the staff at NICE really like.”

NICE Staff — New York, NY

“Thank you Tyson for spending so much time today consulting me on the potential of Nice Magazine. I’ve already started getting my plan together and preparing to take this to the next level. I’m also looking at some of the story ideas you passed along”

D. — New York, NY

I came across this understated and telling piece of graffiti on the side of an old barn near the Catskills town of Margaretville…

“Thanks to new friend, Al, retired Head of School of a Staten Island private school, who so kindly shared time with us at breakfast this morning telling us stories about the Jersey Shore and the Cape “back in the day”. Best wisdom for the day: “Live your life right now and don’t waste it worrying about money and advancing your career — when you get to be old, you’ll wish you had spent more time with family and having fun.”

D. & Beth — Catskills, NY

The USGS has set up three cameras around the Pu’u O’o vent of Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawai’i…

Fan favorite (even Red Sox fans would have to agree), Bernie Williams — centerfielder for the New York Yankees — recently returned from a transformative trip to South America as one of the State Department’s Cultural Ambassadors, joining luminaries such as Yo-Yo Ma, Frank McCourt, Daniel Libeskind and Wynton Marsalis….