Saturday, March 31, 2012

Austin-Healey Sprite

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I took this photo of an Austin-Healey Sprite Mark II, III or IV --the three models' exteriors are, to me, visually indistinguishable--...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The big and the small: Torm Thames and Patrick Sky

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As I earlier noted here , Brooklyn Pier 7, which lies next to Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 6, sometimes serves as a temporary berth for ...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Lady Day: Henry Ossawa Tanner's Annunciation.

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March 25 is the traditional day to celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation, though on this year's Episcopal Liturgical Calendar it ha...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Spring is on schedule.

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Spring officially began yesterday, but in New York City, trees don't often blossom before early April. This year it's different, as ...

Does the Madoff settlement doom the Mets?

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This was the New York Post's take on the settlement, which limits the liability of Mets owner Fred Wilpon to the trustee in charge of w...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Sunbeam Alpine

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On my almost daily walk to Brooklyn Bridge Park and back yesterday, I saw a car of a kind I hadn't seen in years: a Sunbeam Alpine . A...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Sinéad O'Connor and the Chieftains, "The Foggy Dew"

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As down the glen one Easter morn To a city fair rode I, There armed lines of marching men In squadrons passed me by. No pipe did hum, ...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

Tugboats galore.

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My "Red Tugboat" post on Brooklyn Heights Blog has drawn enough favorable mention to make me want to post some more of my tug ph...
Thursday, March 08, 2012

Lesley Gore, "You Don't Own Me"

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It's International Women's Day, so here's a feminist anthem from 1964, the year I graduated from high school, sung by the daugh...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys, featuring Bing Crosby: "My Suppressed Desire".

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Bing Crosby's rich baritone is one of my early childhood memories. My parents had his Christmas album, from which I especially remember...
Friday, March 02, 2012

OK, this is a "boomer" blog; here are the inevitable reminiscences of the late '60s.

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My friend Michael Simmons wrote this piece for the New York Times "Local" blog about Tuli Kupferberg , the East Village Other ,...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

Controversy, thy name is Mets

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Hardly have position players arrived for spring training (though one annoyed the manager by arriving on time ) than owner Jeff Wilpon rubb...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Baldwin "Centipede" Diesel

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www.toytrains1.com In the summer of 1954, when I was eight years old and we were visiting my grandmother in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, my fat...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

"No expectations"? Mets skipper says "No."

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This Stones song encapsulates the assessment of the Mets' prospects this season (pitchers and catchers reported today) by most fans and...
Monday, February 20, 2012

iPod Log 7

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A few days ago I took a short walk around the neighborhood, tending to errands. On the way, I heard an eclectic concatenation of music that ...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Farewell to "The Kid"; Gary Carter dies at 57.

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I became a Mets fan in 1985, the year Gary Carter became their starting catcher. My timing was good, as I saw the Mets go all the way to t...
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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Goodbye, Whitney Houston

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This romantic ballad, written by Dolly Parton, is what I, and many others, will remember you for. Such a loss to die so young.
Sunday, February 05, 2012

Live Blogging Super Bowl XLVI from the Henry Street Ale House

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XLVI? I have fond memories of III . The coin is tossed. Giants get to call, call tails, and lose. Pats elect to kick. Funny, in my exper...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

There are three minutes left in Mozart's birthday...

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...so I decided to post the first thing I found on YouTube. Addendum: This is the first movement, molto alllegro, of Symphony No. 40 in...

Pierce Turner: "Ball and Chain (Snakes and Ladders)"

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Pierce Turner was one half of Turner and Kirwan of Wexford, the house band at the Bells of Hell from sometime in 1977 to 1979. The band w...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Goodbye, Joe Paterno

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Miamiherald.com I don't think Joe Paterno, who died today at 85, will have the fate Shakespeare's Antony described in Juluis Caesa...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Louis Prima, "Just a Gigolo"

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This was a favorite of Nick Tosches . I remember his repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, cajoling Delbert McClinton to do it at the Lone Star ...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Lion's Head lament: Liam Clancy singing "Dirty Old Town"; Lucian Truscott on looking back.

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In the continuing e-mail discussion of the history of the Lion's Head hosted by Dermot McEvoy , who is writing a book about it, Lucian...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

From the "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

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The Rev. John Patrick McGinty quoted portions of this paragraph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter in his homily this morning at ...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Austin Lounge Lizards, "Gingrich the Newt"

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Arthur Boehm's posting of this Gingrich campaign ad made me remember the Austin Lounge Lizards' song from the 1990s, performed a c...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Downtown Manhattan: a financial triangle.

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The building with the curvilinear facade at the left is 200 West Street , the headquarters of Goldman Sachs ( Pei Cobb Freed & Partners ...
Thursday, January 05, 2012

Be Good Tanyas

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In response to my Country and Northern post, Sheryl Robinson, better known to Fray veterans as Dawn Coyote, asked why I hadn't mentione...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

New Year's shout-outs.

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Skaket Beach, Cape Cod Bay, morning, January 2, 2012 Last year, Blogger started telling me what are my most popular posts. Leading the pa...
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Sunday, January 01, 2012

New Year's Greetings from Cape Cod

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I'd been to Cape Cod once before. In 1988, I was asked to speak at the fall meeting of the Insurance Accounting and Statistical Associat...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

Sting, "There is no Rose of Such Virtue"

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One of the songs associated with the Advent season and Christmas that I've come to appreciate later in life is "There is no Rose of...