Monthly Archives: January 2007

Rail Thin

“Downtown service on the 6 train is temporarily suspended due to a sick passenger.” That’s probably the most commonly heard announcement when your train does not appear. This morning’s AM New York reveals that in many of the cases, the “sick” passengers are young women who have fainted due to excess dieting. There are about 400 “sick passenger” delays every …

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Morning View – Pulitzer Mansion

Joseph Pulitzer, he of the Prize, built his mansion on 73rd Street at Central Park in 1903. After his death, the house was sold to the Astor family, who converted it into a 17-apartment coop in the 1930’s. It was hard to get a decent picture, I had to retreat into the servants entrance of the house across the street, …

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Best Bet: Remember The Party 5

Rolling Stone critic Barry Walters has picked my buddy DJ Jerry Bonham’s 5-disc Remember The Party 5 soundtrack as his TOP pick in the Safe Six Of ‘O6, his list of best bets for disco reissues of the last year. Smooth as butter and always harmonically aligned, Bonham’s segues are so seamless that even dancers who know this music forwards …

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2007 Bloggies Open Nominations

Nominations have opened for the 2007 Bloggie Awards. Last year I was floored to be named a finalist in the Best LGBT Blog category, along with Queerty, Good As You, Towleroad, and Little.Yellow.Different, all terrific sites that I read every day. The winner was Queerty, and while I’ll admit that it frustrated me that JMG and LYD were in the …

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Green December

For the first time since 1877, no snow fell in Central Park during December, and yesterday I found Sheep Meadow as green as mid-summer. Today the temperature is pushing 60 degrees. But I’m sure this is just another statistical anomaly.

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