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Blizzard Conditions In Fort Greene

January 26, 2016 – 4:40 pm

No snow fell on Christmas Day in New York. None fell on New Year’s Day north in Duchess County either, although snow clung to the rocky shadows in the woods. The North Atlantic states were experiencing an extraordinarily warm winter, despite my prayers to pagan snow gods. Two days ago the weathermen predicted a change. […]

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Highlights Of 2015 Part I January to June

December 28, 2015 – 5:29 pm

Kicking off the New Year with the Pollocks. My son Fenway. My daughter Angie’s birthday. Malcolm Butler’s last second miraculous interception to win the Super Bowl for the New England Patriots. Drinking at the 169 with Johnny. An opening at Miguel Abreau. James Benning’s video triptych at Miguel Abreau. Snow on General Fowler’s statue in […]

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Brrrr At The Observatory

January 4, 2015 – 12:13 pm

Only three fleeting flurries of snow have whitened the streets of Fort Greene since the beginning of this winter, but this morning the temperature hovered at water’s freezing point for water. I went to the local bagel shop for a coffee and listening to the ski reports from Hunter, Stratton, and Camelback. Conditions of the […]

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Less Milk

May 26, 2014 – 12:49 pm

The Financial Times came out of the banking holiday with a putdown on Thomas Piketty’s book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” and its tenet that income inequality has increased to disparities unseen since before the Great Depression. According to Al-Jazeera the FT’s Chris Giles says Piketty has “got his sums wrong.” Giles writes that the […]

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For Peter, on Dark Illusions and Giddy Phantoms by Irene Zimmerman

May 24, 2014 – 11:17 am

Dear Peter, sometimes, when I am sitting on the subway or walking past an ugly park or eating eggs while I wait to move my laundry to the dryer I wonder why it is that I only seem to write when there is conflict spheres of energy at war with each other inside me but […]

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