Category Archives: Activities

XXXL Posse On The Loose

June 18, 2025 – 9:59 am

Yesterday City Comptroller Brad Lander went to to the federal immigration courthouse in Manhattan to help several immigrants get through their interviews with the court. Upon his exit with a client, he was seized by several masked assailants without a warrant or IDs or badges or uniforms. These men strongarmed the politician into the elevator […]

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June 29 1997 Fire Island Journal

June 11, 2025 – 11:08 am

June 29 1997 Fire Island The waves from Africa Break on the Pines beach The sea froth surging up the sand With a lisping hiss The final reach of the Atlantic Swirling around my ankles To retreat from Beneath my feet___ Three seconds later Another wave ripples around my feet My soles sinking into the […]

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Short Poems, Long Poems

June 3, 2025 – 9:17 am

Back in the last decade Eric Stephen and I were sitting in Eric’s basement East Village apartment, drinking and snorting blow. HIs wife and children were up in New England. Safe passsing midnight we decided to read short poems. Eric read O Hara’s THE DAY THE LADY DIED It is 12:20 in New York a […]

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A Long Plane Ride – Qatar – Washington DC

May 18, 2025 – 3:10 pm

In January 2004 I traveled on Thai Air from New York to Bangkok without a refueling stop in Tokyo, Beining, or Taipei. Seventeen hours in an Airbus jet liner. The flight was half-full and I colonized a starboard bank of economy seats. Five meals coupled with pony bottles of Chardonnay only speaking to the stewards […]

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7/11 Everywhere

May 16, 2025 – 2:21 pm

I remember life without 7/11. Most of the last century. 1927. The company was found in Irving Texas as Southland Grocery Store providing the widespread citizens of that slave state with a convenient place to buy milk, eggs, and other sundries. The name changed to 7/11 to promote the 7am-11pm hours. Not the old dice […]

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