Category: greatdays
-
The Police #2 of 2
It had been 23 years since the Great Injustice. Chris had selected girlfriend and sister over his boys and Brad and I had missed out on an experience that would have been the highlight of our High School experience to date (we were still ‘pure’). Chris had won the front row for the Police Synchronicity […]
-
Dee Vockell 1940-2010
She was ready to go. Dee was down with G.O.D. and was ready to go spend some time getting to know him even better. The final weeks weren’t great, and with just a couple of days until Christmas we decided to have her memorial in January. Her life of service had a magical, defining, final […]
-
Howard and Al
Great Days: I spent a lot of time in my early NY days with a crew from the Museum of Broadcasting (later called the Museum of Television and Radio, then the Paley Center). One spectacular experience received a NYC poke in the eye elevating the experience from interesting to memorable. The evening was an intimate […]
-
no look support
Great Days: It was August of 1990 and I packed up 1/3 of a shared van, abandoned my scooter and headed east to NY with no job and no place locked down to lay my head. By the time I drove across the GWB I had arranged to crash on the couch of a former […]
-
Covenant and combine ourselves
Great Days: My friend Ginna called me up at 5p and said “you have a tux, right? You’re the only person who can come with me tonight.” Two hours later I was in a room of four hundred at the annual gala for the Mayflower Society. Top shelf alcohol, delicious food, tons of smart people, […]
-
I wrapped up the biggest black guy in cellophane today
Great Days: Her name was Janey and she had her Masters in secondary education from NYU. She was carrying a lot of school debt, so to make extra money on the side she was a dominatrix. I met her on some online dating service and she responded because she said I was one of the […]
-
A Conflict in Evanston
Great Days: it was the Wednesday before graduation and my parents and sister were in town to witness the miracle of the awarding of my diploma. NU graduation has two parts — Friday with your college to receive your diploma and Saturday with the University to get inspired by some famous speaker. That night at […]
-
D for Never Dirty, MC for Mostly Clean
Great Days. It was the summer of 1987. Sweet talk to the girl behind the counter at the record store had a 6’x4′ black & white Licensed to Ill poster on my dorm wall . Paul and I were the straight-from-central-casting examples of white-suburban males drawn to the siren song of urban hip hop, and we were […]