snow, ice, the rasp of the skis beneath my feet, fleeting, ephemeral, passing like time past the serene faces of slumbering children, the whispering scent of the pine trees clothing the silent hills, a blue sky above, limitless and unknowable and perfect,
like your eyes
I’m flying, silently, carving signatures on the steep side [...]
February 17, 2009
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Just a quick post–I have an article being published in the New York Times this Sunday, May 18. It will be in the Style and Fashion section, and is titled <snicker> “I’ll Never Dance the Lambada with Natalie Portman”.
A couple of months ago I entered the Times’ annual ‘Modern Love’ essay contest–even though Modern Love [...]
May 14, 2008
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Like 14 million other Americans this past week, I plunked down my precious sixty bucks and walked out of Gamespot with a freshly wrapped copy of Grand Theft Auto 4. For the non-video gamers out there, GTA4, as it’s commonly refered to , is the latest installment from Rock Star Games, and it offers a [...]
May 14, 2008
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The other day I took the new Harley out for it’s first real run. Just a short ride around town, since it was the first day that we had both sun and temperatures in the high 50’s. I rode out of Fort Hamilton, down to Coney Island, and then out towards West Long Island. I [...]
April 7, 2008
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On Monday morning, having working a 12-hour graveyard shift on patrol, I got to particpate in one of the new rites of passage for MPs and police officers around the country. That’s right, it’s time for…..Fun with Pepper Spray! Yaaaaaay!!
To be perfectly honest, pepper spray is not terribly much fun, unless you [...]
April 2, 2008
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Hey all! After years of reading my brother Hugh’s excellent blog, I decided to have a go at it myself. In deference to his surf.bird.scribble, here is biker.dog.ramblings, and I hope it’s half as good. I have no idea where this is going, but perhaps it will at least be a outlet and an exerise [...]
March 25, 2008
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