News: James Blake, the US Tennis Pro, getting slam dunked by a Police Officer outside the Hyatt in midtown in a case of mistaken identity made the world wonder why James Frascatore, charged five previous times with use of excessive force, still had his badge. Read Joseph Waumbaugh’s excellent 1975 crime drama: “A group of ten patrol officers on the nightwatch conducts end-of-shift get-togethers they euphemistically call “choir practices” (possibly to hide their true nature from superiors but actually a sardonic reference). These “choir practices” almost always involve heavy drinking, complaints about their superior officers, and war stories (and, occasionally, group sex with a pair of lusty, overweight barmaids). They hold the choir practices in MacArthur Park because it is in another division’s territory and “one does not shit in one’s own nest.” -to be part of the thin blue line is t protect your own.
Live: The Pagans are off to Spain on tour two weeks from now and let’s hope they make it to New York backwards or forwards. The terrific hard rock band , still at it forty years later, are a must see.
Recorded: Craig Finn has owned my ears for the past two days with Garfunkel And Oates getting more time than Jess Glynne -life is strange, isn’t it?
Sports: The Mets magic number is 14 and the Yanks have lost Tex for the season and Severino getting hammered hard, better keep their eye on the wild card. What is wrong with this picture?