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New Year Where – 2010

June 19, 2025 – 5:07 am

On December 31, 2010 night we were closing the diamond exchange and one of the security guards asked of my New Year’s plans. Big Dave’s an ex-cop from Brooklyn. My neck of the city. Light black and the 300-pounder knows my hang-out, even though his favorite watering hole is Junior’s on Flatbush. “I’m going to […]

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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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April Fool’s Day 2022

April 1, 2025 – 8:12 pm

My older brother was born on April 1. His profession is the Law. Five years ago he told my sister, also an attorney, that he would have no problem defending Satan or any other client as long as they paid his fees. My nephew was in an Ivy League. His tuition cost more than I […]

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The Sin of Banality

August 18, 2024 – 9:12 am

“There is nothing more awful, depressing, and depressing than banality.”— Anton Chekhov This quote was posted on Instagram by Eric Mitchell, famed B-Movie actor and self proclaimed Pittsfield slumlord. Contemporary counter “Banality is an unappreciated virtue along with hypocrisy.” – James Steele – fugitive Banality statue by the king of banality, Jeff Koons

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Gun Freedom

July 26, 2024 – 1:36 pm

Gun freedom stems from the need to repress the freedom of the others. – James Steele – unrepentant counterfeiter

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