rode with the muggers in the dark and dread and all them sluggers went down like lead -Mark Knopfler “Song for Sonny Liston” So Michael Vick got nailed for dog fighting. Some will point out that it’s just animals involved, but this argument has been applied with equally dismissive distinction to certain groups of people […]
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Riff-Raff
Friday, August 10, 2007
Bon is gone but Brooklyn rocks on A long time ago a girl I liked at work had a denim jacket with a “Riff Raff” button pinned to it. At first I thought it reference to the AC-DC tune, and then I figured it a character from Rocky Horror Picture Show, but I believe it […]
Dorian Gray Brooklyn
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Enjoying another fine weekend in the borough with the intention of using my new bar b que set up this evening with my friends Sara and Steve. This morning, my dad sent me this link to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on the recent death of Jim Mitchell, the last surviving Mitchell Brother. […]
Sops Wrap
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
The Sopranos wrapped on Sunday night, not in an Italian restaurant but in a typically American diner and to the strains of Steve Perry singing Journey’s classically cheesy power ballad “Don’t Stop Believing.” Stopped mid-sentence as a matter of fact, without any neatly satisfying conclusion, shocking twists or gunfire montage. There were inferences and implications, […]
Bakeries Doon Below
Saturday, June 2, 2007
A woman fell through a metal grate in the sidewalk a few weeks back. It was a poorly welded Con Edison cover and she dropped about fifteen feet to the ground below. I watched it on the news – there one second and gone the next, a perfect life encapsulation in a few sketchy black […]
On Bonds..
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Well, it was inevitable that I’d have to weigh in on this one eventually. At forty-three years old and with every steroid-detecting dog in the country assigned to his beat, Barry Bonds continues to hit baseballs like a man who never got the news that this is one of the most difficult things to do […]
Zodiac Memories
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Pull up the collar on my traveling coat Sell that miserable pleasure boat Johnny Cash, “I’m Leaving Now” From what I’ve heard, the concept of a miserable pleasure boat isn’t as far-fetched as it may seem. It’s been said that the day a man buys his first boat is only surpassed in pleasure by the […]
In Praise Of Keith
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
I went to see the Stones the other night. One of those last-minute things that kind of just happened. Hadn’t planned on it and bought some tickets from a friend. Wasn’t expecting much. I’m too old for those big-stadium shows, after all, and I’m just a kid next to them. Besides, something always gets lost […]
“Major please, spare me your venomous barbs .. “
Saturday, November 9, 2002
Jonathan Harris is dead. I just read a story on his passing. They described him as the “flamboyantly fussy actor who portrayed the dastardly, cowardly antagonist Dr. Zachary Smith on the 1960s Sci-Fi show “Lost In Space.” As a friend of mine once put it “If you grew up watching that show as a kid, […]