Last week, David Peel, the irrepressible and quintessential street musician, died in New York after a heart attack. He was 74. David Peel was famous — at least in certain street, musical, and marijuana circles (pass to the left in his honor) — chiefly as the composer and performer of the doggerel ditty I Like […]
So far at 10 AM or so, it’s cloudy and there’s hardly anyone here but some hardcore types. I’ve seen The Dude, Roddy McDowell, some classic hippie chicks (mostly grown)…or at least their doppelgangers. First World problem: can’t get a fast mobile Internet connection on my Android phone. Definitely not something we worried about in […]
The year was 1971. I was going to a small liberal arts college in New York City. It was so small that we had only one drug dealer for the whole school! He was a pretty good guy, and one night me and a bunch of other fellows went down to his apartment in the […]