Monthly Archives: February 2016

Hillary Lookalike

February 27, 2016 – 1:58 am

Is it my imagination that Hillary Clinton looks like the leader of the Foundlings from DEEP STAR NINE.

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Bowling For Prosperity

February 25, 2016 – 4:24 pm

Back in the 1980s no one other than Rockets Red Glare was fat and these days he might pass for husky. We loved he nightlife. New York was the capitol of the world. Every place else on Earth was second-rate, except for Paris and Pattaya. Both those cities knew sin. However New York could mix […]

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Riot At The Ritz

February 25, 2016 – 3:53 pm

In May 1981 PIL, the front band for ex-Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten was approached by the Ritz in the East Village to fill in for Bow Wow Wow. The band wasn’t into doing the gig but according to Ed Caraballo, the band’s cameraman said to the band, “Wait,they have all this fabulous video equipment there […]

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iPhone love

February 24, 2016 – 2:18 pm

The other night I went to dinner at John’s Italian restaurant in the East Village. The establishment has been serving hearty southern dishes since 2008. The menu was a time machine to my youth and I ordered the meatball and spaghetti. My dinner companion had the tomato raviolis. We ordered Chiantis and converse about friends, […]

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Subvertizements of Apartheid

February 24, 2016 – 1:50 pm

According to electronicintifada.net activists from London Palestine Action plastered these posters criticizing Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians all over London’s underground train network early Sunday morning calling them “subvertisements,” political messages designed to look like sanctioned advertising. Next week It’s Israeli Apartheid Week in the UK. Israel has spend billions demonizing the Palestinians as terrorists, […]

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