Tag Archives: new york

So Far So Good Hurricane Sandy

October 29, 2012 – 5:44 pm

Florida was spared a hurricane season and earlier this week my Palm Beach comrade hit the beach to enjoy the outer winds of Hurricane Sandy. Alison was surprised to be caught by the local newspaper photographer and even more agogged by the photo hitting the front page. Sandy was sunny in Florida. Not so in […]

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PC Is Back In NYC

October 13, 2012 – 9:36 am

Last month the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery on 57th Street brought back Richard Serrano’s controversial photo PISS CHRIST. The image of the cross bathed in the artist’s urine outraged Christians throughout the world. Twenty five years later the 1987 photo continues to act as a lighting rod for protest against the increasing secularization of the […]

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No I Wouldn’t MILA KUNIS

October 10, 2012 – 7:26 pm

This afternoon my co-workers and I delivered ten bronze planters to the penthouse apartment of a .0001% billionaire. The live-in super explained that the owner of the ultra-luxe duplex come to New York for football games played by his NFL team. Over forty workers were busy readying this palace for his weekend arrival. After Oskar […]

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Drag Queens Uprising

October 8, 2012 – 12:58 pm

The decline of Manhattan’s meatpacking district opened the waterfront area to a host of nefarious nocturnal activities in the 1960s. S & M bars catering to a gay clientele flourished throughout the 70s and transvestite hookers worked the NJ car trade from underneath the slaughterhouse’s tin roofs. AIDs savaged the denizens of The Anvil, The […]

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THE BEST OF DAYS by Peter Nolan Smith

October 3, 2012 – 2:57 pm

Once a month Oilcan flew out of Logan to JFK for a weekly meeting at his investment firm’s main office. Traffic from the airport on the Grand Central was lighter than the previous month, which he considered another sign of the faltering economy. No wait at the Midtown Tunnel’s tollbooths was yet another signal of […]

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