Monthly Archives: April 2023

BREAKING THE LAW by judas priest

April 7, 2023 – 6:45 am

My landlord’s wife read a book about Motley Crue. The mother of two was converted to heavy metal. AP her husband exposed her to Penelope Spheeris’ DECLINE AND FALL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION – THE METAL YEARS. For better or worse and I promised her a heavy tee-shirt as a belated Mother’s Day gift. “Black Sabbath […]

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Orange Man Cometh to New York

April 4, 2023 – 2:31 pm

While several presidents have been executed by the shadow powers; Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding, and JFK, none of been arrested for criminal behavior until today when Donald Trump will be arraigned in New York City for having his Michael Cohen pay $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, an adult-entertainment actress, to quash her outing their 2006 one-night […]

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OI VEY CHEESECAKE by Peter Nolan Smith

April 4, 2023 – 1:07 pm

As a young boy growing up outside of Boston, my classmates and I were jealous of the liberal closed-day policy of Beaver Country Day School. The predominantly Jewish school had more snow days per annum than any other institution south of the St. Lawrence River and the shuffle of Holy Days shortened their school year […]

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Froggies On the Roam – Journal Entry April 4, 1981

April 4, 2023 – 10:32 am

The froggies arriving in New York’s JFK aeroport led by the publisher Jean Francoise Bizot. Later this week Actuel will celebrate their publication’s existence. I know them through Bernard Zekri, who is thriving for the first time in this city. He has discovered Rap and Break Dancing, traveling up to the Bronx and Harlem and […]

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Willis Reed – The Knicks Legend – RIP

April 4, 2023 – 9:47 am

Willis Reed, the New York Knicks’ greatest player, passed last week. With him at center the Knicks won two won championships. The team has been cursed under the ownership of the amateur guitarist, James Dolan, but Knicks fans old enough had to have shed a teat remembering Reed walking out of the dressing room before […]

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