Monthly Archives: February 2015

Brooklyn Tony ON ENGLISH

February 16, 2015 – 7:49 am

Brooklyn Tony goes to school, and the teacher says, “Today we are going to learn multi-syllable words, class. Does anybody have an example of a multi-syllable word?” Brooklyn Tony says “Mas-tur-bate.” Miss Rogers smiles and says, “Wow, Brooklyn Tony, that’s a mouthful.” Brooklyn Tony says, “No, Miss Rogers, you’re thinking of a blowjob.” For a […]

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James Benning & Peter Hutton @ Miguel Abreau Gallery

February 15, 2015 – 1:50 pm

Miguel Abreau Gallery has been presenting the long videos of James Benning & Peter Hutton at their 88 Orchard Street location. I loved Benning’s observations of a lonely highway in California’s Central Valley. Miguel explained that the artist stood on the side of the road and filmed the passing moments. “One man?” “He believes in […]

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Floating Light / Jan Xavier

February 15, 2015 – 1:34 pm

Everyday thousands of southbound passengers sit in the Poughkeepsie waiting room. The rising sun illuminates the high gallery and later three chandeliers light with the four-story brick terminal. Most people ignore them. People are mrs interested in their destinations or cellphones, however Jan Xavier, veteran guitarist, caught the elegant beauty of the light looming above […]

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No Summer Yet In Boston

February 14, 2015 – 3:50 pm

I left Boston in the autumn of 1976 for New York. I was in love with a girl from North Carolina. She departed from Brooklyn three hours before I arrived in a stolen car. I should have returned back home, except Jim Spicer, Cecil Taylor’s manager, offered e a bedroom in Park Slope and I […]

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The Curse No More

February 12, 2015 – 11:22 pm

The Boston Red Sox finally killed the Babe Ruth Curse by miraculously coming back from three games down in the 2004 ALCS finals against their dreaded nemesis, the New York Yankees. Heroic performances by pitcher Curt Shilling and power hitter David Ortiz shall live in the memories of the Red Sox Nation throughout this century. […]

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