Setting: 3AM, 6 train from Spring Street to 86th Street.  Probably the fourth time I’ve run into Alden a.k.a. Karim Fonda from Team Facelift on the subway in the middle of a weeknight. Me: What are you working on now? Alden: Right now we got an album coming out on Duck Down Records.  (((At this [...]

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 [...]

This is just the beginning of a continuing investigation, you might even say focus-group, into why someone chooses to be Republican. Since most people know, and therefore, for now, most of the readers of this zine, will be ultra-liberal, even Socialist (yes, even one Communist), it seems fruitless to write some Bush-bashing piece that would [...]

November 2004 This is an interview with a doorman in one of the wealthiest buildings in Carnegie Hill (multi-billionaires). This doorman “X” is 22 and has only been working this job for 6 months- long enough to know the ins and outs but not so long as to feel enough loyalty to prevent him from [...]