Monthly Archives: July 2024

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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Come Celebrate Bastille Day at Chez Oskar’s 25th Anniversary

July 14, 2024 – 3:29 am

Come celebrate Bastille Day at Chez Oskar’s 21th Anniversary Celebration and their 3nd year in Bed-Stuy. Our July 14th Brunch begins at 12 noon We’ll fete ‘Liberte Egalite Fraternite’ throughout the day with fine food, great wine, song, and petanque. From 7pm to 10 pm enjoy the enchanting music of Blue Dalhia – warm and […]

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Bastille Day 1789

July 14, 2024 – 1:11 am

2 July 1789 The Bastille – Paris The Marquis De Sade was in the stone fortress on charges of perversion. In the afternoon a prisoner cried from his window. “Ils tuent les prisonniers.” The guards subdued the inmate, but his words sparked a smoldering rumor and the rumor spread through the poor neighborhood awaiting a […]

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