Amber Alert

A friend of mine sent this in, so I thought I’d share. We go way back, but haven’t seen each other for years.
Anyway, it’s a dream she had. It’s fantastic. I’m going to paste it unedited:
So…I had a crazy dream about you, and I thought I would share.
We were in NY and you were trying [...]

Giraffes Are Gangsta!

From the “Things You Didn’t Know” department:
Sometimes, Giraffes fight. Each other.
Giraffe fight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7HCIGFdBt8
And you didn’t believe me. Tsk, tsk.

"Ice-T" & Me? We have an understanding.

Several years ago I was sharing a shoebox two-bedroom apartment with three friends on the upper-west-side of Manhattan. Two roommates had to sleep on an air mattress in the living room. They were allowed cheaper rent as they were responsible for moving furniture and inflating and deflating their mattress every night and morning. The apartment [...]

Adventure: North Brother Island

I have a new adventure planned.
I am going to sail my ass on a makeshift raft to North Brother Island.
What is North Brother Island? Good question.
I was playing around with Google Earth and was checking out Riker’s Island Penitentiary in detail. You can see the recreation yards and guard towers and all kinds [...]

Four Brothers

Ok, here’s another “we’re wasted and leaving the bar at 4am story.”
(the crowd cheers)
Three friends and I closed down the Raccoon Lodge on the upper west side last summer, and as usual we were twelve sheets to the wind.
It was myself, a friend named Trevor (tattoo artist), a guy named Jason (pasty/dessert chef at Serendipity) [...]

Long Way Down

I do pretty stupid shit on a regular basis.
However…
My buddy Tynan of BetterThanYourBoyfriend.com put me to shame last weekend.
He installed a swing on the balcony of his high rise apartment. It swings out over the edge and drops down 200 feet. You guys have to see this. Pictures and all.
FYI, Tynan also designed the [...]

Another New York Moment

A few friends of mine and I shut down our local bar around 4AM on a Friday night last October. As tradition dictated, we walked a few blocks over to Central Park to find our favorite spot to cause trouble. The rocks by the lake always paid dividends in this respect. It’s somewhere in the [...]

New York City Blackout

Yes, I realize this happened a long time ago.
When the big NYC Blackout occurred, I remember that the first thing I thought was, “If I don’t come out of this with a great story, I’m pathetic.”
Well, not only did I get a story, I got some pictures too.
I was working for a pair of [...]

Mace, an Axe and a Crowbar: A Love Story, Part II

Read -Part I- first, if you haven’t already.
About a week later, I was waiting outside in the back of my school, standing on a curb waiting for my father to pick me up. I had stayed after school for an extra curricular activity of some sort so almost everyone on the school grounds was long [...]

Mace, an Axe and a Crowbar: A Love Story, Part I

When I was about thirteen years old, I was going rollerblading with a friend. We were heading across town to go to a cooler older kid’s house. He was Oklahoma City’s stunt rollerblading answer to Tony Hawk, at least in our eyes.
We got all of our gear together. Knee pads, Gatorade, a couple granola [...]

New York Moment

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The 4 Train.
I had just gotten off work and was walking up Broadway to catch the subway home when I realized I didn’t have any cigarettes. I stopped at a newsstand to see if they had any rolling papers. I roll my own cigarettes now because, here [...]