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Monthly Archives: February 2005

Christo’s The Gates

What I will remember most about The Gates is not how it looked but how it sounded. When the winds cooked up the sheets flailed, and a thick rumble grew from the movement. A pompous thunder like the sound a flag makes when blowing in the wind. But the sound was not of some tiny [...]

PO Box 181, NYC, 10185-0002

Strange doings at my post office box the last few weeks. My post office box (PO Box 181, NYC, 10185) has been my permanent address for 14 years. I don’t use it as much now as before, but after moving here in 1990 I rented a PO Box because at the time I moved frequently [...]

Biker Dude

I met biker dude last night. 50 or so years old. Zephyrhills cab driver now working at a bike shop in Manhattan, he knew the crackhouses of that small Florida town, he knew all the cracklords there, he knew the 3 or 4 houses they occupied. In one hour of conversation he never asked a [...]

Long, Long Walks To the Food Bazaar

Positiveness is what brought John Lennon and Yoko Ono together. He went to a performance art show of hers. To see one of her pieces Lennon had to climb a ladder to read a message on the ceiling. He expected it to be something political or self-righteous, but instead it said YES. That’s when John [...]