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HomoQuotable – Oscar Wilde
“When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.” – Oscar Wilde.
Read More »Maybe – The Three Degrees
In 1957, producer Richard Barrett steered The Chantels, a Bronx-born group of five teenage girls into the national top 20 with Maybe, a first for an all-black girl group. Then 13 years later, he gave the same song to his latest girl group production, Philadelphia’s The Three Degrees, who were on the cusp of becoming globally famous as the voice …
Read More »Gleasonism
Open Thread Thursday
The house is burning down. What’s the one (nonliving) thing that you save?.
Read More »Backfired
NYC Eagle, Sunday 11pmI’m on the roofdeck of the Eagle, as I am on most Sunday evenings. The holiday weekend has brought out a huge crowd of regulars and tourists and I am penned into a corner of the deck, surrounded by friends and one very horny and persistent young cub. The cub has been touching me lightly as he …
Read More »Morning View – Time Warner Center
Like most, I’m not too crazy about the Time Warner Center, but I am rather pleased with this photo, taken Sunday morning around 1030am.
Read More »A Certain Ratio
My typically serene and genial office environment ripped at the seams on Friday over a bitter disagreement that forced our erudite staffers into two opposing camps. Curse words were uttered. Feelings were hurt. Disparaging comments about class and sophistication were made. The crisis: What is the correct proportion of peanut butter to jelly in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? …
Read More »Happy Labor Day
If there is any greater joy than spending a day at the beach wearing your best wig, I’d like to know what it is.
Read More »Morning View – Central Park West
At 72nd Street and Central Park West, you enter Central Park in the shadow of the ill-famed Dakota. The two towers on the right are the San Remo, a co-op apartment building that famously denied an apartment to Madonna in 1985, during her stint as a Playboy/Penthouse pinup.
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