Monthly Archives: June 2008

Belmont Stakes Fix

Back when I was a younger man, I bet on the horses with a friend from CBGBs. Bill hung out at Aquaduct. My girlfriend said he was Oscar from THE ODD COUPLE. There was a resemblance, if Felix lend his roommate a leather jacket. I tended to bet horses with Ring attached to their name. […]

Thai Condo Crash

The Nation added a note of caution to property owners with a report that up to 50% of condominums will fail in Bangkok due to over-supply. This glut will create another series of ghost buildings to match the 100s of deserted office buildings left over from the 1999 crash. Even the old adage ‘location location location’ will not grant […]

Prince Turns 50

In December of 1982 I was walking down East 14th Street with Richie Boy Winick. Our destination was a nightclub or a bar in the neighborhood. Passing under the marquee of the Palladium, I spotted Benji was at the ropes of the concert hall. I had worked with the portly Jamaican at Arthur Weinstein’s infamous after-hour […]

Finally Mr. Mom

In my youth there was an urban myth that Harvard was offering $1,000,000 to the first man to give birth. 1994 saw the now California governor play a pregnant man in the movie JUNIOR and that spoof was as close as man came to breaking the pregnancy planet, except in isolated cases of alien abduction. […]

The Beauty Of Language

I’ve lived in several foreign countries. Germany, France, Mexico, Indonesia, and Thailand. You can usually find someone to speak English albeit their version of the language and in order to be understood you dumbize your speech. After a few months you end up sounding like ET after drinking too many beers. “Me want go home.” […]