My buddy Buttercup spent his first day out of Riker's Island in style. He chose a special friend to spend the day with. As Buttercup would say, I-fuckin-love-New-York. Watch his day on the town....
The Brooklyn Library has the first 61 years of the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper online, from 1841 to 1902. This is the rag Walt Whitman edited and typeset, and the online archive contains everything from the Civil War to the construction of Coney Island, and spans the transformation of Brooklyn from country town to bustling metropolis....
Ever wonder how the cubicle came to be? Here's a great article (with photo gallery!) about the bane of office life. Best line: "The cubicle was not born evil, or even square."...
This is the first installment in what we hope will be a comprehensive library of short videos showcasing our friend and incomparable performer Anthony Frazzini of Yonkers, New York. He acts! He sings! He bends, oh! does he bend! So, without further introduction, I present to you Weekly Frazzini No. 1 (click link to download video). Watch as Frazzini performs Vanity's "7th Heaven" from her role as Laura Charles in the cult film The Last Dragon....
A little late on the wrap-up, I realize. Something about the epic nature of the drive home (we lost the distributor on the Civic and spent 18 anxious hours at the Days Inn in Villa Rica, Georgia, waiting for the world's most kindly mechanic to put us back on the road) and the sudden jolt of snapping back into routine without the benefit of any real downtime drove the blog urge right out of me. Travel demands writing, record; home is habit - it records itself by virtue (vice?) of constant repetition. But I digress. Remember the giant FEMA tent...
