“Holidays are for spending time with family and friends. Natural disasters are for getting to know strangers,” the stranger sitting next to me at the Bushwick Country Club said hours before the Hurricane Irene was due to strike last year.
It is good advice to keep in mind now, as the Sandy monster storm barrels […]
This is an older story that I shared at a few readings and was published on the ILOANBooks Review of Letters last April. I’m currently working on a contemporary history of 13 and 15 Thames Street for ya’ll, so this should […]
When I was a kid I was very fortunate to grow up in the most beautiful city that I have ever seen, St Petersburg, Russia. Its narrow streets and canals flowed together like a lyric to a romantic song. Its old buildings, which towered over me, seemed almost like guardians, watching, making […]
(Hence commences a new column, “Words of Wisdom” authored by the one and only Wizard of Wyckoff, aka Evil Jesus. This week, a joke..)
“Bill is walking down the street. He sees his old high school bud Frank. They haven’t seen each other in 10 years. Frank’s got this giant orange […]
