Monthly Archives: October 2015

Bridge And Tunnel Oktoberfest

October 12, 2015 – 5:26 pm

Last week the owner of the Old Danceteria extended an invitation to celebrate the Oktoberfest at the Zeppelin Hall in Jersey City. “Bring a friend. All the beer you can drink and bratwurst you can eat.” John had always been a gracious host and I decided to bring along Dirty Dave and Wasta Steve. “New […]

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The God Of Beermas

October 11, 2015 – 5:10 pm

Several years back one of the guards at the diamond exchange was drinking on the job. Joe had a Bud for breakfast. He drank another two on his coffee break. His lunch consisted of six beers. According to his calculation Joe consumed 15-16 beers during the course of a day. Finally his doctor advised Joe […]

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Luxembourg 1988

October 9, 2015 – 4:07 am

During the 80s Iceland Air had one of the cheapest flights from New York to Europe. Maybe $300 with a stop-over in Reyjarvik. I took them several times and here’s a photo of the Luxembourg Gorge from 1988. It hasn’t changed much, but the Iceland flights were dropped in 1999. Nothing stays the same. Other […]

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Senseless In the West Bank

October 7, 2015 – 3:23 pm

Not a single Palestinian was involved with the Nazi Death Camps or the wholesale extermination of the Jews under the Third Reich, yet three years after the Fall of the Hitlerites the newly-established UN organized a partition referendum in Palestine for the refugees seeking asylum in Biblical Judah. Despite having existing as a minority in […]

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Watch The Steps / Hurrah Nightclub

October 4, 2015 – 2:16 pm

Throughout the late 1970s Hurrah was New York’s premier punk/new wave dance hall with DJs filling in between the live bands such as the Damned, Buzzcocks, Dead Boys, Klaus Nomi along with Divine in the off-Broadway exploitative prison play WOMEN BEHIND BARS. Jim Fouratt hired me to work the front door. Haoui Montaug handled the […]

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