August 2009
8 posts
Two Ghosts →
There are two ghosts that hang out under the Triboro Bridge. Well, one of them is a ghost, and the other is from the future, so it’s hard to say exactly what he is. Also, the bridge is now called…
124th Street →
He used to be on my block. He used to sit on a blue milk crate in front of the parking garage, crumbs and lice in his beard, making bird calls. Once on my way back from the airport, from the new…
Jay Leno →
Jay Leno called show business a hooker on channel thirteen. “Go out, have a good time, don’t fall in love with the hooker!” He pointed to Tavis Smiley’s backdrop and said “that’s not a real city!” …
Democracy in America, Part Five →
I remember my dad and I driving to New York City from New Jersey. After passing Newark on I-78, we crossed a bridge over the port of Newark, gleaming new cars and oil tanks to the right. As we came…
Democracy in America, Part Four →
School was clocks. Ms. Johnson had a huge clock above the blackboard, the kind where the secondhand didn’t tick but smoothly whirled around the dial. Mr. Nevins’ clock looked like he stole it from…
Democracy in America, Part Three →
On the corner there is a drug store, brightly lit with an automatic door and a blast of air conditioning and gleaming white floors and smiling pictures of women and children, even in the incontinence…
Democracy in America, Part Two →
Mr. Wilson fired Martin Williams in front of ten guests in his private box. Martin had brought martinis for everyone in the group, and after taking a few sips Ms. Bailey, the childhood friend and…
seedlings of a new story - Democracy in America →
My first apartment in Brooklyn was above a bar where none of the regulars looked under fifty. I’d go in to give my rent check to the bartender and heads would barely raise, nod slowly before going…
April 2009
2 posts
March 2009
6 posts
SNOW DAY
Maybe I shouldn’t have called March a lamb. Sorry March.
February 2009
32 posts
Bygone →
Bygone We talked about opening an old-timey gym Strength cables and jump ropes would sit in milk crates by the door The weights would be globed at the end of unlabeled bars The exercise bikes…
Heard the ice cream truck go by today.
March is...
Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks... →
I’m a reblogging machine. I guess that’s what TUMBLR is about right? Sharing? Caring?
flapjacksal:
Haruki Murakami accepts Jerusalem Prize, not without making a statement.
Thanks to Paul Hlava for the tip!
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To a Twenty-Two-Year Old, New to the City (Part... →
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Thy first bedroom shall be walk-through but the fire escape thy sanctuary Thou shalt crank A Tribe Called Quest from tinny speakers and drink High Life from a bottle at sunset waiting for…
I don't think a day goes by...
…when I don’t think of this cartoon moment at least once, and say softly in my head,
“Wabbit theathson!”
“Duck season!”
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Love Poem From One Monster Truck to Another →
I watched you Perched on the mound Motor purring Shaking on your haunches It reminded me of the time we were in Nashville The Meineke Car Care WRECKFEST You showed that little Escort what a…
New Literary Magazine →
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m starting a literary magazine at school, and this week we finally had a meeting and are starting to get some writing done. So check us out, if you dare.
(click on New Literary Magazine to be redirected)
Remember this? →
(via danjfriedman)
YES!
George W. Bush's 25 Things →
My Fellow Americans, I hope you’re all settling in nicely to the new administration. I miss the times we shared - the laughs, the tears, and most of all, the honor I felt representing such a proud…
Break
Taking a break from all things twit/face/tumbl for a bit. E-mail me at aumurphy@gmail.com or call me if you want to stay in touch.
“Stimulus may be on Obama’s desk by Monday”
– CNN.com headline. Hee hee hee. I’m a fifth grader.
Manny
Met an eleventh grader named Manny on the uptown D train (Goes to Essex St. Academy, lives in the Bronx.)
He asked me where the bathroom was.
When talking about a girl he likes, he said, “She’s so gorgeous, man, I just wanna KISS her!”
Also, “she’s not fat, she’s not thin, she’s PERFECT!”
He doesn’t like English.
“Love goes toward...
“A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to...”
Listen
“You can’t start it like a car.
You can’t stop it with a gun.”
Seventh Avenue →
When it rains on the corner of 130th street The water level rises to meet the curb Floods over the edge Men wearing jackets caked in dirt Trudge through the puddle Pushing refrigerators onto the…
January 2009
65 posts
“As part of our 2009 Hungry Consumer Relief Plan, All You Can Eat Pancakes are...”
– IHOP website. The record at the Harlem location is 32. “I hear she was a skinny woman,” says Bobbi the waitress.
