Tag: NYC

• Wash Away Us All – Ch. 1

  Wash away us all, take us with the floods. – Pantera                               For Frances Everyone was a liar. At least everyone I knew was. “I’m fine,” she said. “I promise. Mommy’s just a little tired. I’ve been run down lately, that’s all. Really. Trust me, I’m as sober as a judge.” That was my mother, typical […]

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  February 12, 2022

  Wash Away Us All

  Fiction, Memorial Park Boys, New York City, Novel, NYC, Queens, W. Flood, Whitestone, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 37

  Kenny waited for me at the Hayes Hotel, situated in Liberty Square, it was re-established as the Hayes in the 19th century about twenty some odd years after my great great grandmother fled her hometown in the last year of the Great Famine. She crossed the bridge of tears, joining the diaspora instead of the […]

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  February 1, 2022

  Dart Etiquette

  Al Green, Book, Cusack's Bar, Dart Etiquette, Death, Fiction, ghostface killah, Hayes Hotel, Ireland, Memorial Park Boys, Metallica, Mets, New York City, Novel, NYC, Peter Cushing, Queens, The New York Mets, The Rza, Thurles, Tipperary, Whitestone, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 36

  An unmarked police car parked in front of Mr. Craven’s pick up truck. The car rattled and hummed well after Detective Jacovino exited the car and walked up the front steps. Two bone dry bottles of Tullamore Dew laid next to the cooler and Cookie Hill’s dog bowl on the grass to the left of […]

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  February 1, 2022

  Dart Etiquette

  Baseball, Book, Dart Etiquette, Death, Fiction, Hockey, Irish Whiskey, Memorial Park Boys, Mets, New York City, Novel, NYC, NYPD, Queens, The New York Mets, Tullamore Dew, Whitestone, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 35

  I eagerly boarded my flight with heavy eyelids. In a few hours I’d be in Dublin, on Irish soil for the first time, then shortly after, an hour and fifteen minutes to be precise, I’d be in Thurles. The very place my ancestors started all of their bad habits. I was anxious, but then again […]

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  February 1, 2022

  Dart Etiquette

  Beetlejuice, Book, Concussion, Dart Etiquette, Death, Dublin, Fiction, Ghosts, Memorial Park Boys, New York City, Novel, NYC, Queens, The Legend Of Hell House, Thurles, Tipperary, Whitestone, XXI Team

• You Didn’t Scratch The Paint, Right?

  At the risk of offending anyone, this essay will involve a name change to protect the identity of a person involved. If you know you know, feel free to chuckle. It’s all in good fun. No judgment will be passed as we are all guilty of some idiocy. It’s up for debate whether the events […]

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  January 30, 2022

  Reading Material

  1987, Cherry Valley, Memorial Park Boys, Monte Carlo SS, New York City, NHL '97, NYC, Playstation, Queens, Understanding In A Car Crash, Whitestone, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 34

  Letting go is not an easy thing to do. It amazed me what things people held on to and how some people could not let go of anything, and others could let go of everything and not bat an eye. No flinches or second thoughts. The house for example, I didn’t feel a personal attachment […]

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  January 30, 2022

  Dart Etiquette

  Book, Death, Fiction, Memorial Park Boys, Metallica, Mets, New York City, Nintendo, Novel, NYC, Queens, Slayer, The New York Giants, The New York Mets, The New York Rangers, The Smiths, Whitestone, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 33

  The sun had not yet risen when Maeve pulled up. I was on the steps of the Craven’s house with the team. The Tully flowed. Cookie Hill’s bowl was filled three quarters with Grolsch and she lapped it up. The Polito’s Econoline van was in the driveway. The M3 trench knife was back on the […]

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  January 30, 2022

  Dart Etiquette

  Black Sabbath, Book, Book Club, Dart Etiquette, Death, Fiction, Memorial Park Boys, New York City, Novel, NYC, Queens, Vol. 4, 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. […]

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  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. 31

  You could meticulously plot out your revenge. You could fantasize about physically harming your enemies. You could daydream about murder. I’m fairly certain it’s normal, a regular occurrence for a human being to do. You can bottle up your hate, and allow your anger to fester and take hold of you, turning you into someone […]

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  January 23, 2022

  Dart Etiquette

  Book, Dart Etiquette, Das Efx, Death, Fiction, ghostface killah, Hitobashira, Memorial Park Boys, Mighty Healthy, New York City, Novel, NYC, Queens, Revenge, Trench Knives, Tripface, Whitestone, XXI Team, Youth Of Today

• Seano’s First Arrest

  Last night two police officers were shot in Harlem. One was shot dead and the second is not expected to survive. My condolences to their friends and family. I tried to be a cop in the mid 2000s , I scored fairly well, although I thought I should have done better. My list number was […]

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  January 22, 2022

  Reading Material

  Central Bookings, Death, graffiti, Memorial Park Boys, New York City, NYC, NYPD, Queens, Whitestone, XXI Team