Category Archives: Activities

No Gas In Manhattan

October 27, 2013 – 12:19 pm

The other day my boss and longtime friend Tem were driving along Houston Street to a job site on East 10th Street. The Californian had moved here in the early 80s and I had come to the East Village in the 70s. We spoke about the changes to the neighborhood, pointing out what was still […]

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Moscow Taxis

August 27, 2013 – 7:42 pm

New York newspapers used to report about naive visitors paying excessive fares into Manhattan. The record was set by a Japanese tourist handing over $2500 and the driver dropped him in Harlem since he wouldn’t cough up another $500 to get him to his destination. Things have improved at JFK, however the age-old practice of […]

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Drinking Not Writing

August 8, 2013 – 8:21 pm

Olivia Laing of the UK Observer noted on Saturday 27 July 2013 that writers like to drink. The first paragraph of her article depicts John Berryman’s suicide as a drunken tragedy without a single mention of his poetry. Henry rested, possessed of many pills & gin & whiskey. He put up his feet & switched […]

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Ted Nugent Shows Class

February 13, 2013 – 9:39 pm

Last night rocker Ted Nugent attending the State of the Union Speech as a guest of a Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Tex.). Huffington Post reported various Democrats’ consternation about CAT SCRATCH FEVER’s author appearing at the talkathon due to his vitriolic outbursts against the President, but last night the Amboy Dukes’ guitarist showed his class. He […]

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Death By Gravity

January 9, 2013 – 5:28 pm

Two days ago a LA man in his 60s was killed by the toppling of his basement refrigerator. To paraphrase the last line from KING KONG; “It was not beer that killed the man, but the beauty of beer.”

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