Monthly Archives: February 2010

Predictions for 2012

February 24, 2010 – 9:57 pm

A filthy storm is aimed at the northeast Atlantic Coast. Coastal flooding, heavy precipitation, and high winds. New York City is supposed to get 13 inches of snow. John Holmes and more. The GOP climate general has yet to comment on this latest winter weather, but I’ve heard from his religious constituency. “This is not […]

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Family Olympics 1912 – 2010

February 24, 2010 – 9:27 pm

The 1912 Summer Olympics were held in Stockholm. My paternal grandfather was scheduled to compete as a pole vaulter for Canada. He broke a leg during practice. Harry Babcock set a new Olympic record with 3.95 meters. The USA won the gold and the silver and the bronze. Two years later the world was at […]

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No Snow 2010

February 24, 2010 – 7:53 am

Politicians are so strange that they actually believe what they tell the public as in the case of Moscow’s mayor, who said he would hire the Russia Air Force to seed storm clouds with cement powder, dry ice or silver iodide to prevent any frozen precipitation during the winter months. Having once attempted to reverse […]

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Soviet Emigre Is Found Slain 1983

February 23, 2010 – 7:30 pm

Last week a Russian producer contacted me to write a screenplay about New York nightlife in the late-70s and early-80s. He had read IN ABSENCE OF AMNESIA my story about the Continental and thought I could incorporate the plot of Russian gangsters running an after-hour club in Chelsea. Crooked cops, Russian mobsters, FBI informers, my […]

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Black At Last

February 22, 2010 – 11:22 pm

Frank’s Bar on Fulton Street is black. It’s not Black Panther ‘Black’ or Malcolm X ‘Black’ but it’s blacker than any other bar in Fort Greene. Since 1972 too. I’ve been hanging out there for the last year. I have never pretended to be anything more than what I am. A white boy from Boston […]

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