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2017 January

January 7, 2018 – 10:54 pm

I spend the first day of the year with the Camp family in Duchess County. It was cold, but not that cold. There wasn’t much snow. The light made us all young. Even me. A snow storm came and the Christmas tree went out on the street in New York. It snowed more in Fort […]

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Mars Versus Mount Washington

January 6, 2018 – 6:58 pm

The atmosphere on Mars is a hundred times thinner than that of Earth. NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover has measured summer temperatures as high as 70 Fahrenheit or 20 Centigrade at the Red Planet’s equator, but as soon as the sun sets, the temperature can plummet to -100 F and -175F is not usual in the […]

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Vagabonding In The City

October 26, 2017 – 2:54 pm

My disaster stint in Alaska cost my apartment in Fort Greene. Too many hours. Too little money. How little? $100 for a thirteen hour day. I wasn’t cut out for selling silver trinkets to geriatric cruise line passengers. May was not the month to make sales in Juneau. Six days a week. I lasted a […]

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Near-Lethal Farts

October 10, 2017 – 11:14 am

Passing gas has been a great source of humor since Adam’s first fart aka the undivine wind. Throughout history comedians have eked jokes from this human frailty. My best i.e. worst fart was at the Ritz in New York City. Public Image was on stage. I had eaten a bad oyster and my intestines gurgled […]

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Dante’s Statue in Lincoln Center

August 24, 2017 – 11:28 am

Walking to the Empire Hotel I spotted a badly-lit statue before Lincoln Center. I wandered onto the grass and was surprised to see a plaque for Dante, the legendary poet of The Inferno. The Middle Age Tuscan poet has been credited with the creation of the modern Italian language. I love his description of Satan. […]

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