A Tale of Two (Giant) Cities

Who paid for the new stadium where the Yankees play baseball?   Hmmm.   Maybe before we go running off to the Marina Tenants Association offices, we should detour through Times Square and do some additional fact finding?   Wouldn't that be a far, far better thing to do in a far away better place?

 

In "the Rolling Stone Book of the Beats," Richard Meltzer, on page 72 of the paperback edition, wrote:   "His (Jack Kerouac's) actual bloody masterpiece, and one of the great, great works of the English language, is Big Sur."

 

Now the disk jockey will play Ornette Coleman's "Shape of Jazz to Come," Slim Gaillard's "Slim's Jam," and Cecil Taylor's "Unit Structures."   We have to go look up the California Attorney General's snail mail address.   Have a "totally cool" week.

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