Johnny Nitro is dead. This news arrived via the Internet and SF Chronicle website on the final morning of what would end up being a nostalgia-centric Presidents’ Day Weekend. Nitro was a blues guitarist who fronted The Doorslammers, the house band at San Francisco’s oldest bar and North Beach mainstay, The Saloon. He played solid, […]
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Art Lovers
Friday, January 28, 2011
I’m in the elevator this morning, about to unknowingly gather empirical support for my previously suggested hypothesis on the dangers of non weather chat. A short while in to my descent, the guy from the apartment below me gets in – an affable chap from Italy whom I met last week. He had knocked on […]
Brooklyn Snow
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
I used to run in to people from the Midwest and East Coast in California who liked to beef about the lack of distinction between seasons. My suspicion is that they were some of the same people I’ve since met in New York who go on about freezing temperatures and having to shovel their walk. […]
Reason To Like NYC #2351
Friday, January 14, 2011
There’s a brand of subway movie poster defacement, particular to this city, which I very much enjoy. It isn’t as overtly political as some I’ve observed in San Francisco, and cuts to the chase rather nicely. Here we see an advertisement for the new Ron Howard film – reason alone to go at it. Vince […]
Double Cross Punica
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
..to an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan – Lucky Wilbury Tuesday morning and I’m back from the holidays in California, scaling the steps at Borough Hall just off the 5 from Grand Central and elevating in to the chilled Brooklyn air. A vendor’s cart with stacked pomegranates comes in to distant focus […]
Christmas In New York
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Recorded this the other night on my cell phone before heading down to the train platform. I’m not sure why I’ve hung around this city as long as I have, but these forty-four seconds might hold a few clues.
Wiki Shuffle
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
The Internet? Is that thing still around? – Homer Simpson I’m kind of fuzzy on this WikiLeaks deal, and suspect that this puts me squarely in the middle of a large section of the population. The website publishes previously unseen documents gathered from anonymous news sources and leaks – some of which, while not disputed […]
Sciopero
Friday, December 3, 2010
Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way. – Homer Simpson The Italian military – or some branch thereof – is on strike. I garnered this information last night from the BBC News. Sometimes I like to expand […]
Down By The River
Friday, November 26, 2010
stayed in Mississippi a day too long – Dylan There’s a mouse in the house again, which is as good a place to jump in as any. I’ve been thinking about writing lately, while reading Deliverance for the first time since college. Watched the film again too, and it poses the interesting dilemma of how […]
Home
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
We come on the Sloop John B My grandfather and me .. – West Indies Traditional I was going to write something yesterday, after Madison Bumgarner’s pitching gem put the Giants one game away from their first San Francisco championship. I was going to say that, looking back on it, October 31st of my 21st […]