Hey Free Rangers, First, Michael Brooks was the most important leftist communicator of our time, and one of the funnier humans that has ever graced this particular ball of dirt. He would have been 41 today. I never met the man, and I miss him every day. His core...
Hello Free Rangers, Long story tolerable (and apologies to those reading outside the reach of the NYC subway system): Until very recently, the Atlantic Ave BID (Business Improvement District) had been a tiny, weird, dysfunctional entity into which we were forced...
“Wasted and wounded it ain’t what the moon did I’ve got what I paid for now…” – Tom Waits Chaos Free Rangers, It may feel like there’s a crazy from the heat kind of slowing out there, and this may be true geologically, but the...
Ya Know Free Rangers, I was in the midst of a fun chaotic paragraph full of sound and fury, but this week has already been a real one, even by current shitshow standards, and all creativity has been derailed. Mondays usually find Derek and I in a relatively quiet...
Hey Free Rangers, It’s incredibly humbling to lose- even for a limited time- the use of a regularly working part of one’s physical human machine, more so when the cause was user error. But this can be the acute result of catching a falling wine bottle while it is...
Hey Free Rangers, Granted I have a lot of pet peeves, but what the f@ck is up with people who reach behind each display bottle to pull one from the cubbyhole in back simply to fondle it, read the back label (there is often only importer info there), and then lay it...
