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I actually have a kind of fond memory of good old Larique. Even though I spent a night of terror, the sheer nerve the man had…breathtaking. Larique sent a request to book our place for his birthday. He was from a town in upstate NY, which pre-pandemic I was always leery of other New YorkersContinue reading “Larique!”

*Note: This illustration will eventually change, I just wanted something there to stop stalling me. Our first guests were kind of interesting. I think we started renting the place out in January of 2017, and before pandemic times, there was not a lot of action in the winter. Most of the inquiries we were gettingContinue reading “The First Guests”

I moved into this house approximately 15 years ago. It is in Bushwick, Brooklyn. At the time, I had been living down the street for a year or two with a friend and had for various reasons decided that I no longer wanted a roommate and wanted to cut ties with my living situation quickly.Continue reading “The House”

Oh , god… It has been so long since I have written in here that everything has changed and I need to re learn it all. But that is okay. Originally, I called this the Quarantine Diaries, because we were all locked in our houses afraid of the world. And basically, I have pretty muchContinue reading “Switching Gears”

There are some people that read this that know me in real life and know, or at least have an idea of what happened, but decided I would write it here just to satisfy the curiosity I know some people still have. I had originally been keeping it vague because it is not my storyContinue reading “2021 Off To a Completely Shitty Start”

My immediate neighbor moved in shortly before the pandemic. He’s a total “Josh” kind of guy. Never had a problem with him at all, but also never really felt the need to get to know him any better than small talk when he empties his trash and I’m out there smoking. For the past coupleContinue reading “Strange Signs the Neighbor is Losing His Mind.”

Going back to the theme of unknowingly going on “dates” with old, weird men, I remembered this guy tonight. It’s all so hazy too. I will have to phone a friend tomorrow to try and reconstruct details. What I remember is this: I had been living in NYC for a year or two. I wasContinue reading “How on Earth Did I forget This Gem?”

In March, when the city shut down and people were quarantining themselves in their homes and not going to work, this cat started showing up in our courtyard. He was very skittish, filthy, and looked underweight. You could see his muscle definition. My neighbor saw him once and exclaimed, “Man, that cat is RIPPED”! TheContinue reading “It is Revealed That , Okay, Maybe I kinda Stole Someone’s Cat”

It’s been a while since I have written. I guess the whole pandemic just became such an overwhelming fact of reality that this blog just became a weird venue for ranting about various unrelated stuff, or relaying old stories. But, someday I suppose I will want to remember all of this, so here is theContinue reading “Oh Yeah, I forgot I was doing this…”

For those of you that follow, or hell, those of you that don’t, my last entry was about this urn full of cremains that I have had for twenty years or so belonging to someone I don’t even know. Despite the fact that I morbidly tried to sell them online, I have also over theContinue reading “Sometimes the Genie is Best Left In The Bottle – An Update On Holly Ann….Yikes”