Category Archives: People I Know

Deb Bowman at the Underground

By hugh | Published: May 15, 2011

Catching my pal Deb Bowman sing at a local pub. She is going places! She’s doing a luxury cruise circuit for a year and a half after this. (Sorry my phone camera is so crappy.)

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Playing Games at Fat Cat

By hugh | Published: October 16, 2010

One of my favorite places in New York has to be Fat Cat. It’s a gigantic basement of games (pool, ping pong, scrabble, chess, shuffleboard) plus live jazz music all night long. A large percentage of the clientele is NYU students who don’t give a shit about the music but even so, the atmosphere is [...]

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February Live Music Reviews

By hugh | Published: February 28, 2010

I saw a number of friends’ bands over the last couple of weeks and thought I’d give them all reviews and plugs. Spanglish Fly, Feb 19, Rose, Brooklyn — I’ve known the leader of Spanglish Fly, trumpeter Jonathan Goldman, for about eight years as he played on the corporate softball team I coached. He led [...]

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SiP Christmas Party

By hugh | Published: December 22, 2009

The SiP Lounge Christmas party was Saturday night during the blizzard. Snowstorm? (This is where I DJ most Thursdays.) The following happened during the party: An indoor snowball fight — short, but sweet. A guy took off all his clothes and did a back flip in the middle of Amsterdam Avenue. I didn’t see it [...]

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Uli on the Roof

By hugh | Published: June 4, 2009

There are a lot of rooftop environments populated by after-work people in suits. Uli is punk rock even though he would say he isn’t.

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Oak Hill Respite

By hugh | Published: May 4, 2009

I spent the weekend in Oak Hill which was a little subdued because half the family is under the weather and the weather is a little under itself. Spring comes two or three weeks later up here than in the city. It was my friends’ daughter’s fourth birthday and they had a swim party at [...]

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Leave of Absence Overwith

By hugh | Published: January 28, 2009

Crappy cell phone pictures are back. I’m back. Gonna put batteries back in my camera and kick some ass. By the way, the last season of Battlestar Galactica is jumping the shark. I disagree with the prehistoric actor’s assessment of the newer version but I think the writer’s strike completely ruined the new stuff. And [...]

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The Next Feminist Platform Revisited

By hugh | Published: January 7, 2009

Happy moms, happy babies…. Some friends on facebook commented on one of my earliest posts on this blog which dealt with orgasmic childbirth. Last week, ABC’s 20/20 finally ran their promised segment on it with a positive spin I’m happy to say. If you have any questions on waterbirthing etc, see Judith’s website. Her photos [...]

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The Next Cindy Sherman / Tracey Ullman

By hugh | Published: October 16, 2008

One nice thing about living in New York is that you get to hang out with people like this once in a while… Ladies and gents, Ms. Leslie Kritzer! DVD extra!! See the outtakes!!!11!!

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Happy Anniversary

By hugh | Published: August 19, 2008

Joe, Julie, Caiti, Cisco, Vince, me, Sandy, Mac, Guerneville, California A year ago at this time, I was with my family in California celebrating my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary, an achievement reserved for the few, the little bit crazy, the ever-loving lucky. Four of my siblings may also win this gold medal. This week my [...]

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Back in Gold

By admin | Published: June 25, 2008

Golden Brown, texture like sun This blog was down all day as I have one of the “cheap hosts.” That’s all I’ll say about it except that I’m glad it’s back as I was wanting to blog all day– except now that I had to be uppity with the tech support and I’m not going [...]

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Streets of San Francisco

By admin | Published: May 21, 2008

Stanyan St., SF Succulent, SF Todd and his whirly Here are some shots from San Francisco. It’s a cool town. Todd is one of the few people I know who will oblige me when I say, “Let’s play fake jazz!” He’ll even say stuff like, “Make it faker!” I’ll have some color shots up soon. [...]

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