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Billboard’s Top 30 Summer Songs

July 4, 2019 – 7:28 am

Most American radio stations run down the Top 1000 songs of all time during the July 4th Weekend. The playlist pleasantly passes the time on the beach. Sunbathers never notice the burn until their skin is the color of an Easter Ham. Once back in the SUV they inevitably crank up the AC and turn […]

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Play Ball 2010

August 4, 2018 – 7:04 am

The 2010 Baseball Season was opened by President Obama in Washington. He walked onto the field with a red Senators jacket symbolizing his honorary support of the home team. Half way to the mound the President pulled out a black Sox cap which he proudly wore through the ceremony. The crowd booed the show of […]

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Broadway Junction – Crossroads

May 1, 2018 – 12:35 pm

Broadway Junction has been Brooklyn’s busiest subway station for over a hundred years. Six lines converge in East New York to service the outer-lying neighborhoods of New York’s largest and most populous borough; the A, C, J, L, and Z. Most of the station rises above the streets on steel girders. To the north the […]

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Still Winter In March

March 10, 2018 – 2:02 pm

Last week I braved a Nor-easter snowstorm and crossed Brooklyn to lunch with Dave Henderson in Williamsburg. I had thought winter was over. I was wrong. My clothes were soaked by the slushy rain and the vortex sculptor asked opening his studio door. “How is it out there?” “Wet, heavy, and white like a check-out […]

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The Ferocity of the Fat Front

June 20, 2017 – 6:23 pm

Obesity is a human dietary condition, in which over-eating threatens a human with heart disease, type 2 diabetes, the failure to breathe, cancer, and osteoarthritis according to Wikipedia. Obesity is determined by Body Mass Index or BMI = kilograms in weight divided by your height in meters squared. 18.5 is considered underweight 18.5–24.9 is normal […]

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