“Every man is proud of what he does well, and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work, and he will do twice as much of it … Read More
Author Archives: Bob Hill
Good Pictures/Bad Camera: West Village Morning
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Moving On: Wild Bobby’s Circus Story
By Bob Hill I was working the microphone of an eight-player race game located on the corner of 24th and the Boardwalk. I was living in a one-bedroom apartment less than two blocks away. My roommates were a pair of potheads named … Read More
Andre Aciman on New York City
“This is your walk and this is your moment and this is your time capsule, says the city every evening as I leave the mailroom and step outside to find the lights of Lincoln Square. This is the moment when … Read More
Good Pictures/Bad Camera: From Midtown to the Park
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Chief Sitting Bull on The One Percent (1877)
“Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race – small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil and the love of … Read More
Moving On: A Partial List of People I’ve Somehow Wronged Due to Drinking Over the Past 20 Years
Julie Andrews Nick Greto Kate Lockwood Joe Austin Laurie Hand Meghan Mac Geoff Beaver … Read More
Kurt Vonnegut on Censorship
“There is the word ‘motherfucker’ one time in my Slaughterhouse-Five, as in, ‘Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker.’ Ever since that word was published, way back in 1969, children have been attempting to have intercourse with their mothers. … Read More