Friday June 1 2012 6:00pm Brooklyn, NYC Fact: There is no greater prop than a borrowed dog for masquerading as a local*, and no greater city in which to do so than Brooklyn. Today Lucky Luciano (for that is his full name), ‘my’ lucky Tree Walking Coon Hound and I, took to the warm and leafy streets of Fort Greene/Clinton Hill/Bedford-Stuyvesant to see what we could see. (Or...
Like many people I know, we are always broke. Ross calls it being ‘in a very Queer Street’. At first thought he was suggesting he was so broke he had to pimp his tattooed arse on street corners but, it turns out it means to be in ‘financial trouble’. (Being married to a man from a past generation it’s only fitting we use this term instead of the...
Friday 1 June 2012 11:00am Brooklyn, NYC Midmorning. I’m right under the Brooklyn bridge, bent double and staring at a steaming, gloopy pile of dog shit in the dust – and it’s neither made of plastic, nor from Chinatown – when a seething pack of dogs, incl a pit bull, a Great Dane and a truly enormous Irish wolfhound, bowl into me at high speed. Unpleasant and scary as...
Jennifer Lawn, (my aunt) longs for Lycra as she packs up 35 years on the farm. For the last 35 years we’ve been able to plod and muddle through making our own mistakes and deadlines but now… suddenly the cut and thrust of big business requires signatures, handing over rights to this and entitlements to that. For 35 years I actually believed we had no entitlements and only commitments...
May 30 2012 12:00am Sky above JFK Airport, NYC Roughly 24 hours later (I’ll spare you the details of the pat-down in LA), here I am hovering above JFK airport. I watched the lights get denser and denser, and more and more arterial (like All Roads Leading) and, yes, felt a helpless excitement when that lit-up, golden, slightly out-of-focus lump, Manhattan, banked into view.* Fill in your own...
May 30 2012 12:00pm Wellington, NZ So I leave Wellington, New Zealand today for New York, NY and the US of A more generally. 30 May – 30 June, that’s the deal. I’ll write – something – every day. You only need to know a couple of things as background: 1) I love America, Americans and all things American. This may yet be tested. 2) I’m on a very...
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