Monthly Archives: September 2010

A Tree Falls in Brooklyn

September 18, 2010 – 3:13 pm

Several severe micro-bursts of tornado strength wind ripped across the borough of Brooklyn knocking down thousands of trees. Big and small. Only one was toppled in Manhattan. High winds. Not a storm. The rain was finished by the time that I left work. Richie Boy and I subwayed to 23rd Street. He had to pick […]

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Maya Lin WAVES at Storm King

September 18, 2010 – 1:13 pm

My landlord/friend designed the biggest cottage in the Hamptons this year. Construction was finished in late August. AP invited several of his male friends for a tour of the beachfront mansion. Massive with a spectacular ocean vista over pristine dunes. The female client hated how the dune grass blocked a sliver of the Atlantic horizon. […]

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The Word Fuck

September 18, 2010 – 12:11 pm

This tone poem is attributed to the great linguist George Carlin. Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today, is the word FUCK. Out of all of the English words which begin with the letter F, FUCK is the only word referred to as the “F” word, it’s the one magical […]

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Malpracticed English

September 18, 2010 – 11:57 am

Most writers pride themselves in the mastery of their written language. Words strung together to create a world accessible to the reader. The nuns of Our Lady of the Foothills taught their students the proper spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation with the aid of a yardstick. Mistakes in orthography were punished as […]

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GOLD AND GUNS / Bet on Crazy by Peter Nolan Smith

September 15, 2010 – 11:58 pm

The price of gold was fixed at $35 after WWII. President Nixon allowed gold to float freely against the dollar in 1971. The London fixed price has climbed precipitously in the last two years to achieve and all-time high against the dollar and people in the USa and other countries are eager to monetize old […]

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