Last Sunday, April 4, Spring came to New York City. Sixty-two degrees it was, and calm in the bright sun of a cloudless sky. The city had been waiting.
The winter seemed unusually brutal and long. As late as March we got mugged by the winds Chicago-style – sucker-punched from the northeast, a roundhouse kick to [...]
New York, at the moment (Mon, April 13, 2009)
Bird is the Word (December 1, 2005)
Bird is the Word
Walking to the train this morning, I spied a curious bird perched on one of the iron tree-guards. It was not a pigeon nor a sparrow. I have no words to name it as I’m not an ornithologist, even though The Girlfriend and I did attend an Audubon Society charity banquet last [...]
Beard
Beard
Ever since last weekend, when I decided to put on a bit of scruff for my spin on Henry Miller over Halloween, I’ve been growing a beard courtesy the cooings of two close female friends. This is the longest I’ve ever grown out my facial hair. And you know what? I can’t stand it. Fuckin’ [...]
The Sweetest Two Words in the Dictionary: Stephen Colbert
The sweetest two words in the dictionary. (May 2, 2006)
Our patriotic propagandists in the mainstream media are responding to charges that they failed to cover Stephen Colbert’s flaying of the president and the press, and in a most presidential fashion: claiming it “just wasn’t funny enough” to merit a mention.
Personally, I would like to know [...]
(The Lack of) Leisure in America (October 2003)
Arrogance is a terrible thing. Not so much because it makes those whom it afflicts obnoxious, or as experience would have it, nationalistically minded, but because it dulls their analytical skills.
The above sentence isn’t an excoriation of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy – the most natural and obvious route from the enunciation of “arrogance” these [...]
