Monthly Archives: March 2010

Brooklyn’s Finest

March 10, 2010 – 11:24 pm

Antoine Fuqua portrays his Brooklyn as a commune of drug dealing brothers and free-gunning cops. A scary city where people get shot all the time and it is that type of city. My friend Vladmar’s cousin was murdered two blocks away from my present residence in Fort Greene. Capped by a local thug. For what […]

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Bed-Stuy Goodbye

March 10, 2010 – 8:18 pm

Cities are considered dangerous by vast majority of Americans. They used to be right in New York. A wrong turn off I-95 could have led to a car jacking in the Bronx. A mistimed joke could have earned a stranger a baseball bat beating in Howard Beach and a walk down East 4th Street was […]

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Lord Ventnor RIP

March 9, 2010 – 9:18 pm

The Times Obit Bob Souter, a unique enthusiast of life and imagination, passed away in tranquility on the 1st of March 2010, aged 69 years. Husband of Annie, father of Anthony, Nathalie, Florence, grandfather of Alexander, brother to Noel. On this day and forever; his family and friends wish him eternal peace and express their […]

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Norway Retirement Plan

March 7, 2010 – 8:15 pm

My kids are young. I have no pension, so I will be working until I’m at least 75. After that I’m going to Norway and robbing a bank. Several if necessary. As many as it takes before the police arrest me and the courts sentence me to life imprisonment in one of their IKEA-furnished cell. […]

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Beat By The Old Age Truck

March 7, 2010 – 1:39 pm

New York’s newspapers reported that this January was the warmest January on record, but I can’t recall a single day since early December with the temperature out of the 30s. Yesterday the thermometer hit 45 and I picked up the telephone to call Shannon. “You want to shot some ball at deKalb.” The playground was […]

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