"Uncle Satchmo's Lullaby"

"Sing Along!"

"I'm soooo sleepy"

I'm really tired comrads. It's been a hell of a week. I think my body is demanding I shut down for a while. ...be back soon.

"The World shall know my Wrath!"

"I can't believe this shit!"

Right so I'm going nuts, and to top it all I seemed to have had a 'minor' stroke. Or what they call stress induced spasms. Basically my right hand curled up. I called 911, and the EMT guys came to the house, and treated me.

Not a 'real' stroke the nice lady in the bullet proof vest said. I lacked "potassium" sez she. I was "severely dehydrated" said the chinese guy, and "over stressed" said da brother.

'Have you noticed how most New York "EMT" crews in Brooklyn seemed to have been ethnically balanced with a slide rule?

Anyway I guess all that heavy labor on my house during this endless heatwave did me in. I was happily stripping, and re-puttying the windows. Humm, maybe I should'a worn a hat. Working for hours in direct sunlight at this laditude can be fatal in the summer.

"Fatal",...yeah next time go with the hat.

I almost forgot. When last I had symptoms like these. Dry heaves, dizziness, headaches, my fingers curving in on themselves, tunnel vision, confusion,...I couldn't remember what meds I took or my sister's full name.

The last time...wow.

The last time I enjoyed these sensations I had maybe 'five grams' of cocaine in my system. Hey I didn't kid around back in the day. I did eightballs like popcorn. Man that was fun!

The only problem was sometimes you died, or almost did. I went to the border of death twice. 'Different both times, but the same aura. Dig it. I was at 'the' border of life, and death. Twice! No kidding, no bullshit.

Far out!

Well it looked like I was going again monday afternoon, but thanks to the N.Y.F.D medical techs I'm good as new. Basically I have to drink more water than I'm used to. I'm a senior citizen sort of. I'm nearly 60, and the guys, and gal told me I have to be 'much more' careful about the sun, and the heat.

Gee, I thought I was, but then they had a point. I wasn't drinking anything for hours at a time, 'and' working in the sun for most of the week, and weekend,...not good.

I learned my lesson.

Lots of water, and fruit. Heck, I've got a nice bowl of peach's, plumbs, and water mellon right next to the key board. I'm all set. Summer do your worst! I'm here to stay!

Btw, added to all that. I got a memo from my latest department head giving me crap over office bullshit.

Gimme a break.

I am absolutely 'too old' for that sort of noise, and so is he.

Btw, it's my Birthday.

Whoppie...

"I'm Nuts Again"

Well, for long time fans you already know what's up. For those of you who have just tuned in suffice to say I have issues. Nothing that big, just death, grief, loss, general dysfunction, and nothing good on tv.

Basically the same shit as everybody else.

It's just that it coming down real hard this time. You know how it can get. Anyway most folks when this hits just drink heavily, smoke alot of dope or look up old sex mates.

None of these things are options for me. So I have to hang on ride the rapids, and hope I'm still in one piece at the end.

Ride'em Cowboy!

(..eh, anybody got a few extra valium?)

"This just in!"

According to the BBC the whole 9/11 "Freedom Tower" shebang has been scrapped. This would explain nothing happening down there for the last few years. They have no idea what they're going to put up on the site or exactly when. The project is mired in financial politics.

Dates like 2012 through 2020 have been variously mentioned for another try at ground breaking.

Swell.

Look why not put up an amusement park, and call it a job done. The City could certainly use one. We could call it "Terrorville" or "Osamaland".

Hell I would go all the time. They could put up one of those monster roller coasters. Ya know the 500 foot kind that gives you a zero "g" effect on the down slope. This would make a cool replacement for the almost completely evaporated Coney Island.

"Get the Picture?"

"Martians come back to finish the job!"





















As good Comrad Bodmin reminds us in the comments to "Nuke over Brooklyn". The so-called "Freedom Towers" are nowhere to be seen. $Hundreds of Millions$ have been spent for nothing.

'But hey,..com'on. Business is business.

What have we got after seven years? 'Besides "Viet-Nam II", and the hatred of the whole world against us. What we 'got' is a damp, rusting hole in the ground with pipes connecting nothing to nothing. This being guarded by a couple of construction workers, and the now, and then passing cop.

Don't get me wrong the guys were cool. I asked them when the damned Tower was going up. They laughed. They had no idea. All they knew was they were still getting union scale. Which is good considering how many are losing their jobs these
daze,...millions.

That's right "millions" with an 'M' at da beginning!

The guy on the right said that they removed the "Freedom Tower" corner stone about a year ago. He thinks it's in storage at some mafia hauling company's garage in Queens somewhere. Also the 'time capsule' within it was lost or stolen.

So much for our 9/11 memorial to the fallen.

I did a post like this last summer, and the winter before that. The identical was going on. Namely nothing. Money runs this town. Big money. As soon as all of the major players get their 'cut' the Towers will go up

Till then we can all go fuck ourselves.

Stay Tuned.