Classic NYC Story http://www.classicnycstory.com Words of a poet... Soul of a musician... Fri, 18 May 2012 17:47:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 On the AIDS walk http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4044.htm http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4044.htm#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:16:56 +0000 Classic NYer http://www.classicnycstory.com/?p=4044 ...I'm not walking for statistics anyway. I'm walking first of all for my husband, who was diagnosed in 2009, and who has been living with the disease ever since.

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]]> http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4044.htm/feed 0 On anger pt 2 http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4018.htm http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4018.htm#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 16:38:50 +0000 Classic NYer http://www.classicnycstory.com/?p=4018 He would have overturned the table were it not so heavy. Instead, with one swipe of his arm, he sent several small things flying across the room. A pair of scissors, a nail clipper, a pill bottle which was thankfully closed shut...

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]]> http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4018.htm/feed 2 On the Wives and Girlfriends Club http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4014.htm http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4014.htm#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 18:47:39 +0000 Classic NYer http://www.classicnycstory.com/?p=4014 I've figured out the pattern, roughly. It has very little to do with attractiveness, as some of them are quite beautiful while others are plain. It has nothing to do with the attractiveness of their men...

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]]> http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4014.htm/feed 5 Music Monday: Butterfly http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4007.htm http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4007.htm#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 17:54:04 +0000 Classic NYer http://www.classicnycstory.com/?p=4007 It floated around in the air for a moment and then alighted on the street, inches from the curb, behind a silent ice cream truck. It fluttered its wings open and closed a few times, as if to show off, and then floated back into the air.

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]]> http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4007.htm/feed 11 On preparation http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4003.htm http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4003.htm#comments Sun, 13 May 2012 19:52:28 +0000 Classic NYer http://www.classicnycstory.com/?p=4003 But of course I'm ready! I've got high heeled shoes on, my trusty gold scarf, and my favorite turquoise dress (remember it: this ten year old Sears bargain dress will be iconic one day). I've got a purse full pf flyers (okay, fine, only ten) for my next gig. I've got the cover fee, a metrocard to get back home, my keys...

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]]> http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-4000.htm/feed 6 On negativity http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-3979.htm http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-3979.htm#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 15:04:20 +0000 Classic NYer http://www.classicnycstory.com/?p=3979 I don't like to be called "negative." I've spent most of my life trying to get away from negativity. I'd prefer to say that I'm "not positive." That doesn't sound quite as derrogatory to me. Nobody wants to hang around someone who is negative.

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]]> http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-3979.htm/feed 3 Giveaway: cheesecake! http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-3981.htm http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-3981.htm#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 12:41:28 +0000 Classic NYer http://www.classicnycstory.com/?p=3981 The first time I did this it was a marginal success, and the second time slightly more so than the first, and so here I am again, back with Classic's increasingly-falling-into-monthly-pattern-but-we'll-see giveaway! For whomever wins, I'll make a homemade cheesecake, possibly sent in a cold cereal box, but I make no promises on that.

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]]> http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-3981.htm/feed 38 On the tears of the campus http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-3977.htm http://www.classicnycstory.com/2012/05/entry-3977.htm#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 13:59:24 +0000 Classic NYer http://www.classicnycstory.com/?p=3977 The campus at Brooklyn College is truly gorgeous, and even more so when drenched in the dark and dewy mist that now covered everything. I drank in the sight of the little oasis that was the quad, as though I were looking at it for the very last time... and then it occurred to me that this was illogical. It's not I, but he who is leaving.

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