2024 baby

Don’t think I’m gonna make it for the ball drop in 1:11:11 from now …  but am watching CNN in Times Square and remembering one new years a zillion years ago when someone we knew knew someone who knew someone who worked at Der Spigel magazine on West 43rd who didn’t mind that a gang of people they didn’t know showed up at their party.  I think we decided to go at the last minute cause we had nothing to do and no money.  We watched pickpockets snake through the crowd followed by old school club swinging cops who never caught them. The city was easy and ever buzzing and never frightening when we were sprouts in our twenties. It will never be that way again. Nobody is young the way we were young. That time is dead. But it was here and we were, too, and it’s a holy cow blessing now .