She’s always out makin’ pictures She’s always out makin’ scenes – Cars A long time ago, before Google Street Maps and being able to scope out every block of a strange location, I used to have this weird brain thing. It happened when I’d travel to a place I’d imagined for a long while in […]
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Tonight In Louieland
Sunday, November 3, 2013
I was watching an episode of Stephen Merchant’s new tolerably decent HBO show “Hello Ladies” the other night, standard fare cringe-comedy of the sort he’s been doing with Ricky Gervais for the last decade. Merchant has yet to reach Gervais’s saturation level and as such hasn’t veered off into ‘Derek’ territory – the latter’s latest […]
Forty Three Oh Four
Sunday, October 27, 2013
This is my old San Francisco apartment building on the corner of 23rd and Douglass in Noe Valley. My flat, on the top floor, was about 900 square feet with windows in every room, a large sit-in kitchen, high ceilings, and two spacious front rooms connected by sliding pocket doors. I was paying $900 rent beginning […]
Oregon Trail
Friday, October 18, 2013
Got called “faggot” by an urban street-tough on the subway the other day. His foot was in the middle of the aisle and I stepped on it getting up to offer my seat to an older woman. “Excuse me, faggot” he said, all bad-ass and hard-boiled. I had earphones in and I don’t think he […]
Grilled
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
They took my grill away. I’d just returned from a two week stint out west when the notice appeared in my elevator: “Dear resident, blah blah blah, per new insurance policies & NYC Fire Dept regulations, blah blah blah, all roof top charcoal grills have been confiscated.” I posted a photo to Facebook of the […]
Rear Window
Friday, August 16, 2013
I got a kick out of this article today about a thirty-something lawyer couple in my Brooklyn locale who have installed an adjunct to their townhouse with a large, clearly visible glass shower where they lather up in full view of the neighbors. The tipster reporting the story described the two as “not unattractive,” which I […]
Hand Rolled
Friday, August 9, 2013
A quick glance at the cover of the August edition of ‘Cigar Aficionado’ can tell you a lot about those who have a penchant for the panatella and read this magazine. Jeff Bridges is shown, smoke in hand, next to the tease ” ‘The Dude’ On Acting, Music And The Zen Of Cigars.” Other featured […]
Two-Fifty New York
Friday, July 19, 2013
Hot in New York. It’s never good when you’re looking toward the weekend, anxiously anticipating the ‘relief’ of a 93-degree day. But that’s what the city is in the summer, and running from it only takes more out of you. I made this observation with Tom Myers, who was out from Northern California last week: […]
Ten Years On
Monday, July 1, 2013
I found myself in the “Friends Circle” of the “Celebrate Brooklyn” concert series in Prospect Park on Friday night, the a cappella strains of Lady Blacksmith Mambazo in the air and the place awash in a sea of white, liberal guilt. Kids on annoying top-dollar push scooters abounded, many of the younger ones outfitted with […]
R.I.P. Jimmy G.
Friday, June 21, 2013
The word ‘everyman’ has been used a lot to describe James Gandolfini’s portrayal of mob boss Tony Soprano, particularly in the hours since the actor’s death Wednesday night in Rome. Physical descriptions – ‘balding’, ‘overweight’ – pop up in attempt to explain his accessibility, how what he did spoke to so many people. But there […]