Monthly Archives: July 2010
All Hopped Up Music and Maps: Chapter 11
This Mix accompanies “Plug In, Tune Up, Rock Out,” Chapter 11 of my book All Hopped Up and Ready To Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77. Specifically...
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July 28, 2010
It Doesn’t Get Easier (But It Still Counts as Fun!)
This Sunday July 25th, I completed the Escarpment Trail Run for the fourth time (in five years), and given that I finished five minutes ahead of my previous best, to...
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July 26, 2010
No Fracking Way
As the BP oil spill fiasco unraveled in the Gulf of Mexico, my reaction was two-fold: 1) frustration, anger and a sense of helplessness at an avoidable environmental disaster happening...
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July 21, 2010
I Witness
Looking north-east across the Catskills from atop the Mount Tremper Fire Tower, 9:26am, Saturday July 17....
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July 19, 2010
Final Thoughts (or, What do we do with the rest of our summer?)
Spain deserved to win Holland deserved to lose Brazil deserved to lose to Holland, too (Since when and why did two of the world’s most talented footballing nations decide to...
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July 14, 2010
Tuli Kupferberg: The Beat Goes On
Tuli Kupferberg passed away yesterday, July 12, at the ripe old age of 86. Before he teamed up with Ed Sanders and Ken Weaver to form the Fugs, Kupferberg was...
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July 13, 2010
Greetings From Asbury Park Part 3: The Drink
1) The Absolut Cocktails at the Beach Bar When we first (re)visited Asbury Park, two years ago, to see James at the Stone Pony, the then newly-opened Beach Bar was...
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July 12, 2010
Greetings from Asbury Park Part 2: The Food
It says something about the quality of dining on the Asbury Park Boardwalk that we re-visited three different restaurants during our four day stay there, eschewing any number of other...
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July 8, 2010