Category Archives: NEW YORK

Mr. Softee Arf Arf

July 5, 2016 – 2:44 pm

This summer at lunch time Mister Softee ice cream truck passed through the industrial park off Greenpoint Avenue in Brooklyn. I couldn’t recall the last time I had licked at a vanilla cone, yet every time its siren call announced its arrival in the area, I ran outside hoping to catch the truck. Not once […]

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A Night Without Northen Lights

June 13, 2016 – 12:32 am

From my roof I sought the northern lights The moon shone silver in the clear night keeping the aurora borealis out of sight banning the promised show from a city too bright. clouds soon blanketed the heavens with a soft white disappointed I descended from the the roof’s heights to my room and drink beer […]

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48D Long Freedom

May 26, 2016 – 5:31 pm

I loved the old Times Square. Now it’s a tourist trap waiting the rebirth of a generation of vicious Fagins, the criminal kingpin of Charles Dickens’ OLIVER TWIST. I have more respect more respect for the ruthless thieves of the 70s than the XXXXL tourists stuffing their faces with fast food on the ruins of […]

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JUMP AROUND / House Of Pain

March 17, 2016 – 10:10 am

It’s that time of year again. One question I wanted to ask the parade marshal of New York. Why don’t the Fife and Drum bands play this Irish hip-hop hit?

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Bowie Ball

January 11, 2016 – 11:12 am

Several years ago I received an invitation to the Bowie Ball. A homage to David Bowie’s Glam Years on Columbus Day at Le Poisson Rouge or Red Fish. I had nothing to wear. My gold Elvis suit is history. My platform shoes were tossed in 1975. I was so out I can never be in […]

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