Pushing through the barrel-chested, protein shake consuming, nine to five, wall street finance puppies to get to an open bar is never fun. Delta Iota Kappa heads covered in gel, pomade, and perfume could be heard using bro-speak with all the fervor of the farm animals that they emulate.
“Hey bro, you broin it up [...]
It’s Thursday night, I’m underneath The Mercer awaiting a performance by Valerie Geffner and there is hardly any room to move. Unfortunately, there still was room to breath because some fool made the mistake eating some sort of garlic laced entrée as his dinner. Getting as far away from whoever it was as [...]
There she is, just a few steps away from me, standing behind a wooden table with snifter glasses, various bottles of scotch, and a silly grin. I’m standing right in front of the scene stealing, porridge eating, bed hopping tramp and finally, finally after 162 years the proverbial, or in this case, “fabled” tables [...]
Rene can see dead people. Really, he’s told me so. He’s always been able to, even in his youth, it’s just that now, well now he has a better understanding of it. Most people dismiss these sort of people, adorning them with such slanderous titles as “imposter” or “charlatan”, but I defend, why would he [...]
Have you ever heard of that dive bar in the East Village that lets you drink all that you can stomach if it’s your birthday? Well that’s where I began yesterday. Sitting on a wooden stool, leaning over a sticky wooden bar, dressed in a blue and white cordlane suit like I’m attending Dubai’s World [...]
Sometimes, at certain moments, one can gaze upon the fresh, supple beauty of youth and see nothing but consumption and death. This is not as difficult a trick to master as you might think. Hidden under obvious masks lies unlade tracks of history stored away for the infinite construction of age. You need not look [...]
Tuesday night. A scallywag decked out in green with tequila coursing through his veins. A bar in the lower east side named after an ancient Indian text. Hip Hop music blasting all around, and Macy Gray enrapturing the crowds. All’s I can do is hope to survive the night.
It’s St. Patrick’s Day and I’ve just [...]
Somewhere, someplace far, far away, in an enchanted castle made of blood diamonds and chinchilla, Tyra Banks is sipping on a Häagen-Dazs mojito while wrapped in a meat bikini and counting her millions. Meanwhile, down below, beyond the village, past the forest, inside caves and under the many bridges of her Masochist County, ogres and [...]
Chiromancy is the age-old art of characterization and fortunetelling through the study of the palm. Also known as palmistry, palm-reading, or hand analysis, in today’s modern society it is generally regarded as a pseudoscience despite it’s uncanny accuracy in unveiling the many unspoken traits of a stranger. Tracing back some 5,000 years ago to the [...]
The death of John Dillenger, infamous bank robber known for his graceful movements during heists such as, leaping over counters and high-speed car chases with narrow getaways was as follows;
Anna Sage, a brothel madam from Gary, Indiana was facing deportation back to Romania. On July 4th, 1934, John Dillinger, J. Edgar Hoover’s “Public Enemy #1”, [...]
