Beyond the greens
In the shadow of the Barclay’s, a Tiger Woods drive away from the impromptu parking lots and shuttles, a few hundred feet from the heavily-guarded tournament VIP’s-only vessel lanes, we strolled along the back trails of Liberty State Park. Baked by the afternoon sun and cooled by the sweet breezes of the dying summer coming [...]
Bird Lives!
I’ll admit it. At first, I just didn’t get Charlie Parker. Even after I became certifiable for the music, I just couldn’t decipher the cypher, those long-ass runs and non-stop swing, relentless and angular and all kinda crazy. “WTF is he trying to say?”
Parade postscript
Technical difficulties prohibited me from posting this video on Monday. Sorry. But I can’t let a day of shooting go totally to waste. (Not after sweating through 90 degrees on Sunday!) I’ve said all I’m going to say about the parade, so I’ll just leave you this video, with no additional commentary. Except this: The [...]
Desfile deconstruction
Momma (or somebody equally influential) always said “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” And we’ve all heard the advice to “count to ten” before you respond to something that makes you angry. Well, I’m not especially good at holding my tongue, but I have gotten a lot better [...]
Who hates corruption more?
During this lull before what I’m sure will be a storm of spontaneous protest and community action this fall, I’m wondering to myself (and now, aloud) about who’s gonna come out on top of this outrage heap. Because, you know, someone always comes out on top of the outrage heap around here. (I have to [...]
Sucker
I’m off to Citi Field tomorrow. Mets. Phillies. This was supposed to be the first big game in a big weekend of big games this season. I was supposed to juiced up for this. Now, not so much. But you can never pass up a night of live summer baseball, can you? After all, it’s [...]
Crazy night in Chilltown
It started around 9 p.m., after a scorcher of a day (90+ again). I had just made it home and was starting to cool down when the sky began to light up, followed by the rumbling boom of thunder, from way up in the clouds. Within minutes it was pouring rain and gusting wind, downing [...]
On a perfect day for piragua
This is the time for piragua, that frozen concoction that helped me hang on for many a summer. Piragueros, the men who pushed their carts of block ice and fruit syrup bottles from corner to corner, were once more plentiful around Downtown. No Mr. Softee truck, the piraguero had to herald his own arrival, unplugged. [...]
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