Category Archives: guns

Dangerous At Any Age

October 8, 2024 – 9:30 am

Old Bill from Frank’s Lounge had been a numbers man for decades. We drank in the afternoons into the evening. Always dressed suit jacket and tie. “You know what’s bad about getting old. People don’t think you’re dangerous.” He opened his jacket. In the left side of his chest rested a .38. “This changes their […]

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Too Few Guns

July 27, 2024 – 8:42 pm

Gun freedom stems from the need to repress the freedom of the others. – James Steele – unrepentant counterfeiter Foto – Joey from New Hampshire – Pattaya 2007

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Gun Freedom

July 26, 2024 – 1:36 pm

Gun freedom stems from the need to repress the freedom of the others. – James Steele – unrepentant counterfeiter

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Guns On Avenue C – 1986

May 10, 2024 – 9:50 am

In the 1970s I always said that the East Village looked like Rome three days after the sack of the Visigoths 410 CE. Buildings burned day and night. The overstretched 9th precinct triaged the streets beyond 1st Avenue. No patrols ventured farther than Tompkins Square Park. Shooting galleries outnumbered bodegas and hordes of thieves fearlessly […]

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AUGUST 20, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

August 20, 2021 – 12:16 pm

Alice is down in Chinatown, plotting the dramatic take-over of the East Village with Tom Scully and his scrawny girlfriend. I don’t like the way Susan looks at Alice and she doesn’t like the way Alice loves me. To her I’m a thug. The coke deal is back on and I’m waiting on Guadalcanal’s call […]

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