On Reality-Based Fantasies

By hugh | Published: September 11, 2008

Basement sunflowers I had lunch in the restaurant above this basement karaoke bar but it was pretty unremarkable. Empty restaurants are even more creepy when the staff wanders around doing nothing looking sad. Maybe I’ll go back for karaoke and do my Jim Morrison/Ian Curtis. My pal Foot Foot was telling me about a reality [...]

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Astroland Not Dead Yet

By hugh | Published: September 9, 2008

Last shots of Astroland? Maybe not. So the world got a little less fun last weekend. Except now, Mayor Mikey is trying to negotiate another year-long extension… and then rezoning? It still stinks of inevitability… like in those Hollywood rescue movies where the trapped survivors wonder if it’s worth trying to stay alive, and the [...]

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The Lunch Wire

By hugh | Published: September 6, 2008

The short lunch the day before Hurricane Hanna hit New York… The Taco Bell® was full except for a table next to a dude in a red and black biking outfit with a full matching backpack sitting in the seat of the table next to him. He didn’t have any stinking bicycle with him. “Is [...]

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Spasticus Rouge

By hugh | Published: September 5, 2008

I won a poker game tonight. I didn’t listen to any speeches and I’m just quoting JMM for a reality check. 10:44 PM … Did anyone else notice this? A few lines back I think he called for abolishing unemployment insurance. Here’s the line: “I know some of you have been left behind in the [...]

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Joy Division, Control

By hugh | Published: September 4, 2008

Way, way after the fact: Control, the 2007 Ian Curtis biopic shot by Anton Corbijn (who does not have an official myspace page) is a wonderful film though it was hard to march on with it. The music has been important to me ever since I first heard it. A year after the Curtis story ended [...]

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Palindrome

By hugh | Published: September 3, 2008

Offered without comment except to say that this is the person who wants to step into Dick Cheney’s shoes. I wonder how he feels about that.

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Deep Thoughts

By hugh | Published: September 2, 2008

the light at the end of the tunnel is on the wrong side of the tracks The Hail Mary pass is the pie in the sky. (Why does no one ever say “He threw an Our Father pass”? or “a 23rd Psalm pass”?) The effect of listening to two hours of shameless spin doctoring is [...]

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Goodbye Summer

By hugh | Published: September 1, 2008
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