There is a certain show (I won’t mention its name; it gets enough undeserved attention) haunting the radio airwaves. It purports to analyze and discuss various topics that are either strange or preternatural and, in the end, remain just as unsolved and unexplained. From UFOs to Bigfoot, to Doomsday scenarios to government conspiracies, this show [...]
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This is a great city for outdoor concerts. Every summer it’s a joy to get out there amidst the heat and humidity, traffic and crowds (swarms of mosquitoes at night), and get our “fair share of abuse” at an outdoor concert. Since my wife and I take a delightful interest in the inevitably absurd (possessing [...]
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Numerous fissures and cracks can be observed on many buildings along the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Sterling Place, in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. This quiet, upscale neighborhood, less than a half-mile north of Prospect Park, goes about its daily business with little notice for defects in a city so rife with fissures, [...]
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Butterscotch came upon us one moonlit and otherwise inconsequential night. There he suddenly and determinedly was, meowingly clawing at our door, and my wife and I gave him some milk. He came the next night and we gave him some milk and fish. He must have been so satisfied with these two visits that the [...]
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(Written last June 2007 when autumn seemed so far away): Romance tends to become lost in the cracks and crevices, noise and turmoil, of New York City. The steel and concrete of overwhelming edifices and crowded streets seem to swallow-up the best laid plans of our emotional artistry and transcendental intellect; these are flimsy and [...]
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She lives in the arabesque musings of GNOSSIENE #4 and other Satie eccentricities, reverberating and unfolding as the The Princess. She was the pride and joy of Soho, and proudly and joyfully would walk its streets. The Princess was the desire and envy of all the guys and gals, as her countenance would pass their [...]
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Over the years, many apes of various shapes and sizes have passed through New York City’s tangled confusion with varying degrees of success. Some have prospered and thrived, while others were left penniless and forlorn. Some have become renowned and legendary figures, while others became figures of derision and ridicule. Some apes were even elected [...]
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New York City has never been known for its haunted houses…and for good reason: there aren’t any here!!! Throughout the entire city, there’s not one genuine haunted house of any fascinating distinction or old-fashioned merit. Ghosts and goblins never seemed to blend into the city’s “melting pot” of fast-paced nine-to-five hours and meat-and-potatoes grittiness. Since [...]
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I’ve always harbored a love/hate relationship with jazz: loving it for its passion but hating it for its oftentimes vulgar incomprehensibility. This is how I feel about New York City, and I’ve wandered through this place since the day I was born. Beauty and grace, form and unity, run a rapid existence with that of [...]
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There in the fictional venue of SoHo within the fictional New York City there existed the artist extraordinaire named Gatsby after the fictional character of an earlier age. Throughout the length and breadth of broken cobblestones from which rose lingering brownstones bordered by adamantine warehouses, resided successful lives to would-be lives and fulfilled attempts to [...]
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The Egg Cream is an item of fact and fancy in Brooklyn‘s proud and questionable history. Controversial in its origins and awe-inspiring in its appeal, this was the nectar (the elixir) of choice for all the lesser gods and goddesses of Brooklyn’s less than green and pleasant land. From far and wide (and a few [...]
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