Times Square, 1979

By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed.

Times Square, 1979, with Bill Murray, and a working gal. This was the center point of when we lived in NYC. I had to pass through Times Square often (I especially remember going there to the electronics stores, like 47th Street Camera to pick up a tape recorder, camera, or Walkman).

People can't conceive what a toilet Bryant Square Park was back then now that it's been so tidied up. Needles, hookers, bums, street kids, drunks, three card monte, hustlers. . .and the Irish bars and Tad's Steak House. 

We'd pass through TS to go to the theater a/k/a Broadway, or sometimes actually go there to see a film in one of those amazing stadium style theaters (where you could still smoke at a movie) or sometimes even to see a grindhouse movie or a zombie double bill. It never felt scary (well, sometimes), but always felt sleazy. Now it's something more akin to Fisherman's Wharf or the Pike Place Market or The Grove in L.A.--a friendly tourist destination with a colorful past.

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Melanie Odelle (a/k/a Curran)'s EP release, Honky Tonk Highway

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed.


I have more than one niece (see, also, Paloma Ford releasing music.  Check out my niece and birthmate's new EP on BandCamp.   It's only three bones.

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President Bill Clinton catches a ball the hard way in a 1993 pickup game

Found by Jack Brummet

[found on various sites, photo by unknown]

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Poem: Dodgeball

By Jack Brummet

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Visitors from out there: the landing

By Jack Brummet

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Drawing: Faces #965 - Will Call at The Nutcracker

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge

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Malapropisms in The Sopranos

Compiled by By Jack Brummet

"She's an albacore around my neck." - Johnny Soprano, about his wife Livia

"Create a little dysentery in the ranks" -Christopher Moltisanti

"We're in a f***ing stagmire." - Little Carmine Lupertazzi

"Alright, sure. Go ahead. I'm a little miffled but yeah. . ." - Tony Soprano

"My friends have abandoned me. I've been f***ing ostrified." - Little Carmine Lupertazzi

"I agree with that Senator Sanitorium. He says, if we let this stuff go too far, pretty soon we'll be fucking dogs." - Tony

"There's no stigmata connected with going to a shrink" - Little Carmine Lupertazzi

"What with the passing of Vito Senior and all that entrails..." - Tony

"I was prostate with grief." - Tony

"Quasimodo predicted all of this." -Bobby Baccalieri [referring to Nostradamus]

"A guy like that is going out with a woman, he could technically not have penissary contact with her Volvo" - Tony

"You know, Sung Tizzoo! The Chinese Prince Matchabelli!" - Paulie Gualtieri [Sun Tzu and Machiavelli]

"From now on, keep your antidotes to local color, like Dinoflow or Maguire sisters. Otherwise, SHUT THE F*** UP!   There's an old Italian saying: you f*** up once, you lose two teeth." - Tony

"He's an old-fashioned kind of guy - very allegorical." - Little Carmine Lupertazzi

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Hands Up; Don't Shoot!

By Jack Brummet

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Beginning a Faces drawing

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: The islands from eight miles high

By Jack Brummet

Beneath a chiseled frieze of cerulean blue
Islands recede into the water
To settle on the sea floor

Like an archipelago of Atlantises.
Islands come and go,
Bobbing up and bobbing down

Like lost corks
Drifting seven seas,
Treading continents,

Threading between islands and straits.
They crest the waves
Beneath gathering clouds

As flocks of birds
Circumnavigate the globe,
Shuttling from landfall to landfall.
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#YouCouldOrderAFewMore: Air Force shares one wrench to attach nuclear warheads between three missile bases (they Fed Ex it back and forth!)

From The New York Times, Nov. 13, 2014:

"Pentagon studies of America’s nuclear missile infrastructure released in November included the revelation that nuclear warheads had to be attached with a particular wrench, even though the Air Force only owned one with which to service 450 missiles housed at three bases. Consequently, one official told the New York Times, 'They started FedExing the one tool' back and forth."

No one had checked in years, he said, “to see if new tools were being made,” typical of maintenance problems that had “been around so long that no one reported them anymore.”

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Faces #962 - Lear and his Fool

By Jack Brummet

[analog-digital hybrid]

click to enlarge

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