R.I.P. Roger Ebert. I’m not a big fan of list-writing but in this case it seems appropriate. Ebert will be missed for the following five reasons, and more. 1) He was an excellent and prolific writer who never over-wrote. Ebert’s ideas and interest in his subjects were paramount but his prose was accessible. If you […]
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Eat-In Kitchens
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
“Of course the coffee’s HOT! So don’t be stupid!” Mazzola bakery, down the street on Union, includes this admonishment on their coffee cups. It’s the little shit that I appreciate about New York, still found in select corners and available to anyone willing to pay attention. I was giving a young visitor a tour of […]
In Like A Lion
Sunday, March 24, 2013
It snowed Monday night following St Patrick’s Day, beginning in the afternoon as a fine, gritty sleet peppering my face as I tried to run. By evening it transformed in to large, fluffy flakes that stuck together and accumulated on the street a few inches thick. I decided to find a bar, an infrequent instinct […]
Privateering
Friday, March 15, 2013
I’ve been listening to Mark Knopfler’s ‘Privateering‘ of late. It was released six months ago but I wouldn’t have tripped on it had I not seen him in November when he opened for Dylan in Brooklyn. A friend bought the double CD for me after we attended the show and made fun of the ‘Knopfler […]
Noodle Town Close
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
I get off the train at East Broadway and cut past Seward Park on to Canal, through Chinatown and toward the restaurant. It’s cold in New York, maybe twenty-five degrees, and I haven’t been in the city for months. By ‘the city‘ I mean Manhattan. That’s what they call it here as simple distinction from […]
The Secret Life of Gomer Pyle
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
‘Gomer Pyle’ Star Marries Male Partner. I caught this Internet headline at 3 a.m. this morning in my typically sleepless state. 82 year-old Jim Nabors decides to ‘officially’ come out of the closet and tie the knot with his partner of almost four Hawaiian decades. To steal a line from Dennis Miller in reference to similar […]
Best of World View
Monday, January 21, 2013
I’m expressing with my full capabilities And now I’m living in correctional facilities – Dr Dre /NWA “Express Yourself” Been a while since I’ve written anything. I was in California for a long stay necessitated by a family situation .. but this probably overloaded the thought process as opposed to leaving no time to riff. I’m sure […]
Early Roman Kings
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
In his triumvirate/kinda top-three Well there’s Bob and there’s Neil and there’s me –Loudon Wainwright III “My Biggest Fan” Shot. Wrecked. Like oil sizzling in a pan. Bob Dylan’s voice has drawn unflattering description in recent years but it’s not like they were ever comparing him to Johnny Mathis anyway. Last week was the second time […]
Suttree
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
I just finished reading Cormack McCarthy’s Suttree, a novel he wrote over a span of thirty years and that is so rich in vocabulary and description it occasionally makes the reader want to shower. It’s been compared to Joyce’s Ulysses, a book I’ve personally avoided because my friend Paul, who makes a point to finish every book […]
Three MC’s & One Hurricane
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Hives are gone, lost my bees Chickens are sleepin’ in the willow trees – J Cash Odd few days here in NYC, and this may be the greatest understatement since Noah told the Mrs “looks like rain..” It began last Friday with an epic three-state Skype session with my pals Miller and Myers, segued in […]