https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMlrWe4sOhI

A couple of friends and I made a video in high school, circa 2001, that I later uploaded to YouTube. You know, for posterity. On a whim I looked at it last night, and after twelve years of accumulating a couple of dozen views, it somehow picked up around 58,000 views in February!

Delighted by such comments as:

"Wow !!! So what was the point of this film. Maybe it should be erased !!!"

"Thumbs down."

and:

"Wtf is happening here"

Ars gratia artis!

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Chelsea Piers.

Occasionally when I pick up the boys for the weekend, I drive up the night before and stay at a rundown Super 8 in Monticello.

It was all booked up tonight so I got a room at some place across the river. It seemed empty when I got in around 10pm and I was really caught off guard. Don't know if I've ever been so charmed by a hotel.

The Darby Hotel, Beach Lake, Penn.

I'm thirty-nine now.

Snuck on to the roof on a pretty day.

From Jimmy Breslin's CAN'T ANYBODY HERE PLAY THIS GAME?, a portrait of the Mets' disastrous first season.

Got to introduce the boys to Hot Pot at a Northwestern Chinese place just a couple of doors down.