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FREE THE RALPH

October 21, 2012 – 10:14 am

Last Thursday night I walked down Lafayette to repay a debt to the local bodega owner. Crossing South Portland I spotted several undercover NYPD cops gathered before Lafayette Ave. Meat Corp. Just the other day the bearded Palestinian had lent me $80, so I could send money to my son Fenway. All I had to […]

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Sam 7

October 9, 2012 – 9:11 pm

There’s a helicopter flittering over Fort Greene this evening. Obviously the NYPD pigs are hunting a perp that outran their donut-eating comrades. Probably a shooter, but their ruination of the usual quietude has me wishing for a Surface to Air missile. I would miss my a few hundred meters and my arrow would drop in […]

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Bacon And Eggs At The Academy

October 7, 2012 – 2:18 pm

This Sunday morning I’d bacon eggs for breakfast at the Academy Diner iN Fort Greene. It was good. I don’t see either bacon or eggs on this chart Maybe it’s in the small print.

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An Actor’s Incredible Journey

September 24, 2012 – 10:21 am

There is no TV in my top-floor apartment. I watch nothing by NBC, CBS, or ABC. My late father would be happy with my rejection of the ‘boob tube’, although my apostasy was more due to my inability to operate the new-fangled remote controls than the content offered by networks. I hear people talking about […]

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Everyone Young

August 29, 2012 – 11:31 am

My younger brother died on AIDS in 1995. Our family buried him in the town cemetery. I couldn’t speak at the funeral and I said little after the burial. My sisters knew that I had a packet of airline tickets in my pocket. Each destination offered a holy site, at which I would prayed for […]

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