Monthly Archives: January 2024

Evil Personified

January 15, 2024 – 2:55 am

The FBI waged psychological warfare against Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta. Letter such as the one, which suggested he take his life, were constantly sent to the family at the behest of the FBI director. J. Edgar Hoover was an evil man and his legacy haunts the FBI to this day. Not so […]

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Yim Yim Yim Smile Though Your Heart Is Breaking

January 14, 2024 – 6:42 am

Different languages have many words for the same thing. Eskimos supposedly have fifteen words for snow. The travel movie AMAZING THAILAND claims the Thais have thirteen words for smile. This statement falls into the realm of urban legend, although the Thais have a smile for every occasion. Happy? Smile. Sad? Smile. Crash car into buffalo? […]

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#93 Ted Bruschi – 2015

January 11, 2024 – 7:31 pm

2015

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Our City – Maz et Moi – PJ Clarkes

January 11, 2024 – 7:27 pm

After COVID struck, the city closed everything. Mazin and I wandered the shorelines of Manhattan and Brooklyn drinking wine in the desolation of uncertainty. Counting the stars. It was our city. One night we sat at a Williamsburg park on the East River. Across lived his sister and he called her to illuminate the Christmas […]

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Chinese Iron Rooster BET ON CRAZY

January 10, 2024 – 11:24 am

My teenage nephew stopped by 47th Street yesterday evening. It was closing time for our exchange. Zeb goes to a mid-town high school. Public. His father works over at Rockefeller Center. He does something with TV. “You going home?” Zeb and I lived in Fort Greene. His father worked late. The long-haired student liked my […]

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