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I know this guy . Well, I don't know him personally but I have seen him around a lot. I am quite familiar with one of his favorite places, in fact the place where I see him most often is depicted in that picture at the top of the article. Where is it? I'm not saying. If a man doesn't want to be disturbed I'm going to leave him be. I understand that the folks who want to get him off the street probably mean well. Only a cynic would think that at this point in the evolution of Times Square that they just want to push the homeless off to the margins, sweep them under the bridges and roads and overpasses and into the tunnels where the skittish masses from west of the Hudson and north of the Bronx won’t be frightened away from spending their dough. No, that was the game then, I have no doubt that the agencies reaching out to this guy want to help him now but I don’t blame him for not trusting them. However, I think there is a role for old “Heavy”. Why not approach the guy ...

What do these photos represent? What does the squirrel mean or rather what do the squirrel and the pita in tandem represent? Is the squirrel man and the pita nature or perhaps the squirrel represents God holding the world in His hands and just, you know, taking off a nip now and then which could represent Death itself which has been a leitmotif of this website. Look into the eyes of the squirrel and try to imagine his thoughts. He might have the weight of the universe on his shoulders if he is indeed God come to check up on Earth disguised as a squirrel. Look deeply and you may see untold galaxies glinting in the inky blackness of those rodent eyes. Or perhaps he is simply thinking “Why is that fat guy over there taking my picture?” This, of course assuming he was simply a squirrel with the ability to reason, the wherewithal to ponder causality and the understanding of what a camera does. Not to mention that he would have to be an English-speaking squirrel. The simplest possibil...

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Happy early spring in the Northeastern US with lots of shiny sun and warmth aplenty. Flowers bubbling up out of the mud and all that. Soon it’ll be time for the bunny to come out of the tomb and bring the eggs to heaven and then we’ll have ramps and asparagus and spring onions and there will be much rejoicing. Of course, the whole death thing keeps getting in the way. Welcome to 2010, the year of death. Of course every year is a year of death in fact every day is a day of death for somebody or something from the person you admired to your dear relative to the head of lettuce you murderously shredded into what you called salad even though it was just a bowl of lettuce and some creepy chemical compound called “bottled salad dressing”, a vegetable’s embalming fluid yum yum yummy. 2010 started with a friend of mine dying and he was younger than me and it was out of left field so we call that one a tragedy. It’s about to continue with a beloved old aunt-in-law who will finally get to f...

Happy belated deathiversary Bukowski. You said it for all of us: " Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice." "It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush...

I am standing in a deli in midtown Manhattan waiting to pay for my “ferry beer”. Ferry beers are beer that I buy at the deli between my office and the subway entrance on cool enough days that they won’t warm up by the time I get on the boat. I buy them at the deli because they’re cheaper than the beer sold on the boat and there is more of a selection. If they’re out of Becks and Fosters on the ferry you are S.O.L. for a decent beer unless its one of those weird days where they inexplicably have a lone Leffe standing upright in the middle of the clear plastic (or maybe it’s Lucite) ice bin that sits between that machine that rotates the pretzels under a heat lamp and that other machine that keeps the “Big Az” sandwiches warm. So there I am in the deli and as the cashier is ringing up my beer I catch a piece of the conversation between the other cashier and a female customer who is inquiring about a bottle of Chateau Diana. You know Chateau Diana, that supermarket wine product, don’t’ yo...

The electronic sign just below the roof of the subway car says "Cortland Street &" and then it blinks and says "Will Not Stop"as though it can't bear to complete the sentence even though it's almost a decade since that stop description was rendered obsolete. We roll past the blue wooden boards obscuring the place where the downtown platform used to be and the boards are plastered with ads for some security software company. "(Security software company) is backup" "(Security software company) is recovery" "(Security software company) is security" "(Security software company) is compliance" If the train would zoom through the station at high speed those ads might be a subliminal cartoon of some sort. The trains never zoom through that stop. Why? Safety? Memory? The layout of the rails? The "Cortland Street &" disappears from the electronic sign long before the ads do. "Cortland Street &" i...