Tuesday, September 07, 2010

College football begins, and a belated farewell to Vic Ziegel.

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The Harvard Crimson are the consensus favorites to win the Ivy crown this year, though the New York Times' Thomas Kaplan likes ...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The worst baseball season ever?

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We're up against stiff competition: strike-blighted 1994, scandal-scarred 1919. OK: I'm seeing this as a Mets fan and Yankee hater, ...

Happy 65th, Van Morrison.

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In the immortal words of Paul Schiffman , "Live forever, kid!"
Monday, August 30, 2010

S-A B is five today!

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Somehow, I've managed to keep cranking out the posts for half a decade . Thanks to all my regular readers (I'm not sure how big an ...
Friday, August 27, 2010

Eli "Paperboy" Reed at Le Poisson Rouge, August 11, 2010

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Three weeks ago, I posted about Eli "Paperboy" Reed and his band, the True Loves, noting that they were to play at Le Poisson Rou...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

A visit to the studio of painter George Oommen

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This video clip, courtesy of Harvard Magazine , takes us into the studio of painter George Oommen as he demonstrates and explains his techn...
Monday, August 23, 2010

Culture war, New York City style: it's about bikes.

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Much has been written and said about the supposed cultural divide between coastal elites and heartland (or flyover country) just plain folks...

The Mets are toast, but The Baseball Project is alive and well.

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The Baseball Project is the creation of Steve Wynn and Scott McCaughey , two rockers who first met at a club in Seattle and discovered a ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Sic transit gloria mundi.

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A bargeload of crushed cars, having passed under the Brooklyn Bridge, heads toward New Jersey.
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Trader Joe's beers: cheap and cheaper, but not bad.

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In these times, I've become an avid bargain hunter. A sixer of domestic "craft" beer from a store in my neighborhood costs fro...
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Sunday, August 08, 2010

Eli "Paperboy" Reed: from Brookline to Brooklyn

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"Blue-eyed soul" is a term I first saw used in reference to the Righteous Brothers. As a concept, it may have originated (I...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Christina M. Rau's Brooklyn Bridge video.

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As anyone who has followed this blog for some time (and if you have, may Procrastinatus, the god of blogs , shower you with blessings) know...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

Untitled (Irish Hunger Memorial)

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I'm sitting on a stone from County Armagh, facing New Jersey, listening to Van Morrison. Two young women climb the curving path, st...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

It's official.

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The Mets suck .
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Some seashore music: Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen, and the Tams.

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Lest you think that Eliot Wagner and I only like music that critics hate , here are a couple of songs from Eliot's podcasts by critical...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

Remembering Brooklyn native Barbara Stanwyck

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Yesterday was the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Barbara Stanwyck , one of the most versatile, and perhaps influential, actresses of th...

The Brooklyn roots of Chicago, and some Garden State rock: Smithereens and Southside Johnny

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As I mentioned in an earlier post , I've discovered in Eliot Wagner someone whose musical tastes are almost eerily similar to mine. One...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010); Harvey Pekar (1939-2010); George Steinbrenner (1930-2010)

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My wife, a good Episcopalian who believes in astrology, tarot, and ghosts, also believes that deaths always come in threes. The past several...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Mets avoid sweep.

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Yeah, it's kinda like "Unemployment rate stays below 10%." I take my comfort where I can. There are some nice things to say ab...
Saturday, July 03, 2010

Jefferson "Freudian slip" in draft of Declaration of Independence?

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Today's AOL News includes a story by Lauren Frayer about a recent discovery concerning the Declaration of Independence, the 234th anni...
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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Gina Villalobos, Second Dan, and the Del-Lords: thank you, Eliot Wagner!

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Eliot Wagner has a great music blog called Now I've Heard Everything . I had the pleasure of meeting him at last week's Brooklyn Blo...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

If I post this, will I doom the Mets?

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All I had to do, it seems, is kvetch about the Mets' dismal performance on the road, for them to go on a tear and win six straight away...
Monday, June 07, 2010

David Markson, 1927-2010: another friend gone.

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Some years ago, someone I knew (but I've now forgotten who) wrote an article for GQ magazine about the Lion's Head, the Greenwich V...
Thursday, June 03, 2010

Why can't the Mets do it on the road?

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Last night's debacle in San Diego underscores the Mets' lopsided record this season: 19-9 at home, 8-18 on the road. On May 27, Joe...
Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Librarians Discover Their Inner Lady Gaga

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Students and faculty of the University of Washington's Information School do a send-up of the pop star. Thanks to Athenasbanquet for th...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

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Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are a Brooklyn based rhythm and blues group that performs original songs in a style that evokes soul classics...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Goodbye, Dennis Hopper

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Another boomer icon is gone. Thanks to the Byrds for the song.
Sunday, May 23, 2010

Perfect baseball night.

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Mets beat Yanks . Pelfrey(!) gets the win, K-Rod the save. Savor the moment. Rays win , so my old home-town team opens up some division race...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Do you curate? If so, you rate.

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My Brooklyn Heights Blog colleague, Heather Quinlan, recently posted about a "pop-up-store" to appear in our neighborhood. She wr...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Has the Venter Institute created artificial life?

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In a sense, yes, but in my view, mostly no. Wall Street Journal: Heralding a new era in biology, scientists for the first time have created...
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