I’m still bike riding and taking pictures sometimes. This one is definitely a tribute to Berenice Abbott.
Author: hugh
Dead Sparrow
When a sparrow lets you stick a camera right in its face, you’re not just passing by.
Playing Games at Fat Cat
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 usually pretty crazy. The musicians might be jazz students or veterans hanging out late and playing with the kids. If you don’t like the games, have some beer or wine and just dig.
The Parking Lot Mentality
That last bit was uploaded from my phone. It could’ve been a stupid Twitter post right? Some freshness coming to fill the gaps soon.
Just Because It’s Raining Back Home
Tons of New Yorkers standing around a tv watching the Yankees beat the Red Sox on a walk to be followed by a rain delay. Now we’re having a fuel stop in Denver. Red Eye from hell.
Roof Lawn at Lincoln Center
I actually wrote a letter to Lincoln Center in the 1980s saying they should make it more of a hang-out and add more low-brow entertainment further advising them that it would pay off in the long run. Since then, they’ve expanded the whole “Out-of-doors” program and rebuilt the plaza to include this amazing roof lawn on the north side. Ta-da.
Deep Thought
It’s a lot easier to study things that have been built than to study things that have been destroyed. Put another way, is that a 2×4 or the fog of war?
Is Honor Restored
I just have a film still right now.
Vases Near Ground Zero May Leak Muslims
You know where I’m going with this and if you don’t, you’re Hitler.
Is This Thing On?
I haven’t posted in a while but I will. Thanks for sticking around. New Yorkers should know that I usually DJ Thursday nights at SIP Lounge on the Upper West Side. I play mostly soul but lots of other stuff gets thrown in. Small “mersh” playlist below.
A Day for New York
The first amendment is alive and well in New York City. “Bloomberg fought back tears as he recalled that on 9/11, “more than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, ‘What God do you pray to?'”
Apologies that I do not have a more grandiose photo. This is the High Line sort of looking like a hot tub.
Rocks Off Boat Cruise Photos
On July 20th 2010, I went on a Rocks Off boat cruise that cost only $10! What a deal! I took some pictures of the bands (Miniboone, The Naked Heroes, and the Mess Around) but they were all pretty blurry. I’ve seen all the bands before and they’re all great local acts from New York and Brooklyn. I don’t think you’ll find a cheaper rock’n’roll cruise but I highly recommend catching at least one of the remaining rides if you want to blow off some summer steam in New York fuckin City.
