Monthly Archives: July 2024

Goodbye Subway Inn – 2014

July 14, 2024 – 6:16 am

On July 24, 2014 I had a last drink at the Subway Inn on East 60th Street. The property owners were evicting the 77-year-old Manhattan bar to erect a towering luxury condo. I first drank in the Subway back in 1977. It was a classic dive bar then and most recently my boss frowned upon […]

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Bastille Day / Palm Beach 2008

July 14, 2024 – 6:08 am

Most Americans have an unfavorable attitude toward the French. This antipathy is based on the abuse most US tourists have suffered from dismissive Paris waiters. Few realize that these garcons are rude to their own countrymen as well as any estrangers. That is not to say that the French don’t subscribe to a haughty self-esteem. […]

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Hangover Ratings

July 14, 2024 – 6:07 am

Bastille Day is a French drinking holiday. The French word for hang-over is ‘gueule de bois’. In Thai it is ‘hang’. If I spoke to Caesar, I’d say that I was ‘crapula’ which is Latin for fucked up the day after, but no one put it better than Kingsley Amis, who once said, “I had […]

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Bastille Day Beauties

July 14, 2024 – 5:52 am

Candida en Corse. Chez Gabby. Karinne de Aix en Provence. Katie 1984. / Mirabelle Le Bad. We’ll always have Paris.

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July 14, 1994 Bastille Day – East Village – Journal Entry

July 14, 2024 – 4:48 am

Another sweltering summer day with temperatures rising along with the tempers. No one remembers how cold the winter was. No one is talking about anything about other than the hot. At the Tompkins Square basketball court we are drowning our innards with water and juices and sweating out it as fast as we drink. I […]

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