Tag: Dysfunctional Family

• Kerhonkson

  My family and I travel to upstate New York fairly often throughout the year to visit relatives in Sullivan County. The traffic leaving or entering the city is generally the worst part of the trip. The GW bridge is horrendous and patches of roadwork along the way sucks but it’s beyond my control. I enjoy…

  SG

  May 20, 2023

  Reading Material

  Dysfunctional Family, Horror Movies, Kerhonkson, Long Drives, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, New York City, Non-fiction, NYC, Queens, Road Trip, Travel, Upstate New York, Whitestone, XXI Team, ZZ Top

• A Proper Bastard

  It was sixteen degrees colder than average in New York City the day I was born. After a long and troubling pregnancy, and a delivery that was no different, Frances had a baby boy on March 18, 1981. Complicated would become a recurring theme. Frances moved back home to Whitestone so her parents and three…

  SG

  December 30, 2022

  Reading Material

  Author, Dysfunctional Family, Family, Fatherhood, Memorial Park Boys, New York City, Non-fiction, Nuclear Family, NYC, Paternity Test, Queens, Trauma, Trust Issues, Whitestone, writer, XXI Team

• All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 19

  Planet Earth is populated by 6.6 billion people. How many of them do you think have any redeeming social value? The vast majority were worth fuck all. The pessimist in me thought the scale tipped in favor of the shitty selfish direction. I was also aware that I was most likely to be lumped into…

  SG

  September 14, 2022

  All Guests Must Be Announced

  Book, Dysfunctional Family, Fiction, Heavy Metal, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, New York City, Novel, NYHC, Queens, Rainer Manning, Substance Abuse, The New York Mets, Whitestone, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 32

  I stood in my bedroom, in the basement of the house I grew up in for potentially the last time. No, it was the last time. It had to be. That house taught me about the pitfalls of life. I stuffed the clothes I wore in the park during the execution into a plastic bag.…

  SG

  January 30, 2022

  Dart Etiquette

  Book, Dart Etiquette, Death, Dysfunctional Family, Edgar Allan Poe, Fiction, Goodbye, Irish Whiskey, Materialism, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, New York City, Novel, NYC, Queens, Roger Corman, Vincent Price, Whitestone, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 15

    I bashed the tractor tire in our backyard. I hit it repeatedly with the sledge hammer as instructed by my cousin. furious, it was more than just letting off some steam, it was unadulterated hate. I don’t know how long I attacked the tire for but I must have been back there for a…

  SG

  December 9, 2021

  Dart Etiquette

  Book, cannibal corpse, Cassette Tapes, Death, Deicide, Dysfunctional Family, Fiction, Finglas, Ireland, Long Sleeve T-Shirt, Memorial Park Boys, Metal Heads, New York City, Novel, NYC, Queens, Sledge Hammer, Tomb Of The Mutilated, Truck Tire, Whitestone, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 14

  When I returned my father was perched in his withered recliner, paralyzed in his shriveling body and sleeping off the intoxication. Three inches of whiskey stood in a murky glass, sweating a ring amongst many rings on the wooden end table. He snored loudly while in the middle of a film, The Last Man On…

  SG

  December 3, 2021

  Dart Etiquette

  abandonment, Book, Death, Dysfunctional Family, Edgar Allan Poe, Fiction, House On Haunted Hill, Memorial Park Boys, New York City, NYC, Queens, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, The Last Man On Earth, Vincent Price, Whiskey, Whitestone, XXI Team