Monthly Archives: May 2013

Da Bronx Then

When the Bronx was Da Bronx. 1976. The birthplace of Rap. A neighbor has a photo of two boys playing basketball with a tenement on fire in the near background. That’s the way it was.

The City Of Canes

Over the last three days I’ve been working on the Old Bronx Opera House. Investors are transforming the old theatre on 149th Street into a hotel, hoping to draw travelers to the Hub, which was once the symbol of urban decay for America. City authorities hoped to revitalize the South Bronx shopping area, but nothing […]

The Ugliness of Free Enterprise

Senator Elizabeth Warren has been lauded for suggesting that the interest on student loans be lowered to subsidized America’s Future, however no one is proposing free education since this country prefers free enterprise. The entire yearly debt of college owns comes to $50 billion dollars. The same cost of running the wars in Afghanistan. So […]

Three Cowboy Jokes

# 1 How do you know when you get to Oklahoma? You smell cow shit. How do you know when you get to Texas? You step in the cow shit. # 2 An old cowboy sat down at the bar and ordered a drink. As he sipped his drink, a young woman sat down next […]

Hail To Da Chief

Hail storms are rare in the Northeast, but this afternoon my comrade Eric Bad Boy experienced hail driving from Albany to the Berkshires. “I thought we going to get hit by a tornado. What’s it like in New York?” “Sunny and humid.” I was fighting traffic across the Manhattan Bridge. There wasn’t a cloud in […]