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Sun Mar 13 18:00:05 EDT 2005 The other day I walked to St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst. I thought I might find Scott Joplin’s grave, but instead I found roosters, and lots of them. Handsome roosters, brightly colored, healthy and noisy. Is there a farm in the middle of that [...]
One mystery of life solved. The red beacon-like lights that started appearing on top of streetlights around town last year: I asked several people, and while no one knew what they were for there was no shortage of theories. Something to do with homeland security, and the color coded threat level chart? Cell-phone relay stations? [...]
Do you ever find yourself saying “I was just thinking that” before articulating a thought on what you say you were just thinking about? Sometimes I say, mumbling to myself, “I was wondering about that” before producing a coherent thought or idea about “that.” A dusting of acknowledgement that something remarkable just passed by. The [...]
A friend told me this week that on 9/11 she saw FBI agents pounding on a business owners door yelling “We need your phone!” She saw a policeman ordering her back yelling “The other tower is coming down! Go back if you want to live!” The orderly, quick, bizarre thumping sound of the floors smashing [...]
LAST NIGHT AT VERONICA’S, REMEMBERING A STORY I NEVER WROTE ABOUT SOMEONE WHO ROBBED PEOPLE OF THEIR MEMORIES. PHOTO ALBUMS, AUTOGRAPH BOOKS, CASHLESS WALLETS. “I DON’T WANT YOUR MONEY,” THE ROBBER WOULD SAY. “I WANT YOUR MEMORIES.” THE THIEF GREEDILY CONSUMED YOUR PHOTOS, YOUR YEARBOOKS, YOUR RECEIPTS AND 5TH GRADE COMPOSITION BOOKS FILLED WITH ROTE [...]
In the back room of a pub on Union Square we saw a husband cheating on his wife. They read like pages from a regulation third-rate romance story. The obviously wealthy man looked about 60, greased back hair, an Ascot Chang shirt and Coach leather briefcase. She looked in her 30s, poised but to me [...]
