Monthly Archives: February 2017

A Long Twenty Minutes

February 14, 2017 – 1:54 am

Last night I was at the 169, drinking gin-tonics. After my first I shouted to Dakota for a refill. The lanky Arizonan was serving a two-deep crowd, but took the time to come over and say, “You have to learn to wait your turn. You’re on a five-minute ban for service.” “Five minutes?” “Make it […]

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MSG Disgrace

February 12, 2017 – 6:33 pm

The New York Knicks were one of the original teams in the NBA. Red Holzman coached Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, Earl Monroe, Dave DeBusschere, Dick Barnett,Phil Jackson and several other players to championships in 1970 and 1973. The Knicks fell apart in the ensuing years, but they were lucky enough to draft Pat Ewing in […]

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HANDS OF BRICK by Peter Nolan Smith

February 12, 2017 – 1:49 pm

Every high tide deposited beer bottles, oil containers, fishing lines, shiny candy wrappers, and plastic bags onto the sloping shoreline of Jomtien Beach. At low tide I harvested the trash into sea-worn rice bags. Within a half-hour the sand was devoid of any human refuse and I smugly regarded the pristine strand with pride. While […]

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NBA Color Blind

February 12, 2017 – 1:25 pm

This NBA season I have been watching the Boston Celtics on www.vipbox.me. The website remains with the game during commercial breaks. Last night my hometown team played the Utah Jazz and I noticed once more that the crowd was mostly white. Like 99% white. And very white. While the players are predominantly black. I haven’t […]

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STRANGE FRUIT Billy Holiday

February 12, 2017 – 11:21 am

Billy Holiday was introduced to the song STRANGE FRUIT by the owner of NY’s integrated nightclub Cafe Society. The words came from a poem by a Jewish school teacher from the Bronx. According to Wikipedia she first performed the song in 1939 closing out her set in total darkness other than the light on her […]

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