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April 27, 2009
Today would have been my father’s 84th birthday but he died back in 1995 so the only place I could visit him was St. Raymond’s Cemetery in the Bronx. While I was there, I started thinking about him, and growing up not too far away in the James Monroe projects, also in the Bronx.
I was raised in those crazy projects and have many memories but today, because it was such a nice day, I went back to Monroe to stir up the past. I had not been to Monroe in quite a long time but I was happy to see that i
April 24, 2009
All taken with my blackberry — it’s a great thing taking surreptitious pix! Please take a look….
April 22, 2009
Happened to spot playwright/actor Sam Shepard and actress Jessica Lange eating in Greenwich Village this afternoon at Le Pain Quotidien. I was eating nearby but they did not notice me!
April 21, 2009
That’s what Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart called it in early March — he actually called it “the largest source of prostitution in America” — when he filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to force the popular online classified site to eliminate its listings for erotic services.
Dart also asked the site to reimburse Cook County $100,000 for the time spent by Chicago officers investigating prostitution on the website.
This is all brought to mind of course by the arrest of Philip Markoff, the so-calle
April 20, 2009
Today at the West 4th Street station, I heard a woman yelling on the platform, and, for once, it was a sane human being. Very sane. She was railing against the coming NYC subway fare hike initiated the MTA, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
She wanted everyone to join the facebook page “1,000,000 People Against the MTA Fare Hike” which now has 72,000 plus members and is growing. Two friends are trying to marshall support to fight back against the MTA’s plan to raise subway and bus fares
