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Finally caught the raccoon who I had heard hangs out in our back alley in action.  Around 4am on 10/2/07.

W. John Jameson, III, lives in my building and weaves textiles in his apartment. During the winter he opens his home studio to friends and other tenants for a holiday sale. A few years ago my mother began a yearly tradition of letting me pick out a scarf for Hanukah. When John is working, the [...]

So, late last summer, the UES was papered with these tracts by our dear Pastor of New Jerusalem, Tony Alamo. The theses point to the coming apocalyse resulting from the church and government being co-opted by Satan (he does have a point). UFO sighting are also a message of the impending apocalypse. He first found [...]

During the 1990′s HMV was the major local record store, located on 86th and Lex. Like most giant record stores, new releases were promoted in the windows. Several years ago HMV closed and eventually Best Buy opened. Amidst the shuffling of businesses in 1278-1280 Lexington Avenue which now houses the equivalent of a very convenient [...]

Click on each of the three images below to enlarge to a legible size. Parts 1 (Money) and 2 (Art) are in the archive. Also, Jeff is performing tomorrow (Thursday, September 13, 2007) at Sidewalk Cafe at 10pm.

Right now there is a different kind of flower but I usually remember tulips. I have a system for walking from point A to point B in Manhattan – its goals are to save time and distance. However, I recently implemented an exception to my usual rules. In the old days, when I would approach [...]

Hidden in the scattered grey and brick pattern of a building on Madison and 84th Street is a heart shape containing the letters I + R. I first noticed it a few years ago looking up for a second out of a cab window which just happened to be framing the secret message in such [...]

As I was saying, I saw this car last night parked in the 80′s between Madison and Fifth, prompting this train of thought: Someone once suggeseted in one of my classes at art school that in our consumer culture we only have the illusion of choice when it comes to what we consume. This is [...]

I know lately it might seem like the journal has been focusing on superficial aspects of the area – cabbage, signage, etc. But I hold all of these things in my line of vision as suspect; suspect of containing an interesting story, an anecdote; or of possessing the potential to inspire some meditation leading to [...]