Friday, January 31, 2020

NYC In Situ

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Going through this blog's almost 2400 posts, I realize that I have never posted a comprehensive map of the five boroughs. So here goes:...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

My Public Access Memory Anecdote

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Memory is a tricky thing: we remember some things very well, some things somewhat well, and some things not at all.  Obviously we alway...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Dr. Who in NYC

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To be honest I'm not the biggest Dr Who fan but WHO the hell cares what I think? The show has been a huge global hit for literally mor...

Would You Hire This Man to Watch Your Dog?

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Monday, January 27, 2020

Close(d) Captioning

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A deaf Brooklyn man has recently sued an adult site because its naughty movies do not include closed captioning. This is actually a very in...

Remembering "Beyond Vaudeville"

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Long before YouTube and the Internet allowed everyone to become a "content creator", the only place where you could find oddballs...

Gotta Love New Yorkers

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If you look at today's New York Times , you'll find two very different articles about two very different New Yorkers who are, in my...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Manning Retires

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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Byford Resigns

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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

A Little Birdhouse in Your Soul: They Might Be Giants' "Flood"@30

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Two weeks in the year 1990, and two weeks after I turned thirteen, a previously unknown band from Brooklyn called They Might Be Giants rele...