New York summer is hot and hazy, colorful and still busy.  I was recently pulled over by the cops for riding a bike on the sidewalk in brooklyn.  Now growing up in a suburb I was often yelled at for riding IN the street.  Isnt' that becuase it's safer on the sidewalk?  Well in New York they throw you in the streets, and last night riding back from the rehearsal studio I felt the wind of a near passing truck swallow my stomach as it passed.   Biking is fun.

I saw mini-michael in the subway the other day.   A 3-foot tall Columbian Michael Jackson impersonating midget was getting down to
beat it when I hoped up the stairs.  He earned his dollar.  He earned a lot of dollars.  In a city where all kinds of musicians swarm the subways for penny handouts... mini-michael gets all the money... and hell, he damn well should.  I thought i was hallucinating.