Monthly Archives: August 2015

The Hustlers Convention LP 1973

August 13, 2015 – 12:01 pm

According to Wikipedia “Lightnin’ Rod” was the pseudonym of Alafia Pudim, one of the Last Poets, when he released his seminal 1973 Hustlers Convention LP featuring tracks such as “Sport” and “Spoon” and “Coppin’ Some Fronts for the Set”. The album released on United Artists featured Tina Turner and the Ikettes, Bernard Purdie, Billy Preston, […]

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More Bad Math

August 9, 2015 – 11:41 am

The other night Ma’am called from Thailand. I was sitting at Frank’s Bar on Fulton. the football game on the tiny TV was a distraction along with Rosa the svelte Vietnamese homegirl bartender. Before opening my flip phone I told everyone to be quiet. They knew my story and concentrated on their drinks. “Mai mii […]

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Brooklyn Tony ON MATH 101

August 9, 2015 – 10:57 am

A Math teacher asks her class: “If there are 5 birds sitting on a fence and you shoot one of them, how many will be left?” She calls on Brooklyn Tony. He replies, “None, they will all fly away with the first gunshot.” The teacher replies, “The correct answer is 4, but I like your […]

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And Then The Fight Started

August 9, 2015 – 8:45 am

When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive… so, I took her to a gas station. Then the fight started. My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat […]

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HANG ON SLOOPY by David Porter

August 8, 2015 – 11:04 am

In my younger years of my life I knew girls known Sandie, Samantha, Suzanne, Sara, but never a Sloopy. Doctor Nick and I went to college with a girl whose name sounded by Sloopy. The slight brunette came from Roxbury. Her major was in nursing, but she danced weekends at the Two O’Clock Lounge in […]

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