Monthly Archives: June 2006
The Streets In New York
Driving down to New York City in the evening: a different experience than taking the bus in to Port Authority during the day But the familiar New York lifestyle: one...
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June 30, 2006
An iJamming! Jam session
No reason, no rhyme, no real beginning or end. Random connected dots. 1) Steve Brookes’ bookKeeping the Flame, about growing up with his schoolmate Paul Weller, about forming The Jam...
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June 27, 2006
When The Levee Breaks?
That percussive sound you can hear all over the Catskills right now – like a rapidly brushed snare drum accompanied by a lightly flexed ride cymbal as played by an...
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June 27, 2006
Why England Will Win The World Cup: We’ve got the best WAGs
My good friend McCutcheon has always had his priorities right, as the title of his short stories collection, Sex Drugs And Rock’n’roll Never Goes Out of Style, surely confirms. These...
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June 26, 2006
Lucky Thirteen
Today’s my wedding anniversary: I’ve been married thirteen years. If you’d posited that prediction to a 25-year old Tony back in February 1990, when he met his future wife Posie,...
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June 26, 2006
Why England WILL Win The World Cup…
No sooner had I spent all that time uploading the pictures from the Why England Won’t Win The World Cup e-mail doing the rounds, than someone sent me a link...
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June 24, 2006
Small Axe/Big Feud
Looks like I’m not going to be spending this Sunday at nearby Hunter Mountain, listening to Bunny Wailer and The I-Threes, after all: The Woodstock Reggae CariFest has been canceled....
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June 24, 2006
Schools out/Pupae in
Today was Campbell’s last day as a Fifth Grader. Had he still been in Brooklyn, this would have been Graduation Time, but fortunately, our school district doesn’t move kids out...
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June 23, 2006