$2.50 Well Spent

Mamoun's Falafel

22 St. Mark's Place

New York, NY 10003

212.387.7747

http://mamouns.com

Bull

Bull, the men's fiction quarterly, is midway through its second year of publication. It's a milestone worth notice.  Few literary outlets have dedicated themselves to the personal accounts of men.  The ones that do never seem to last. The most recent, Ring Fire Voices, was discontinued two years ago.

Solid fiction and essays still find their way into popular mens monthlies, but are often tied to the finites of pop culture.  That's logical and expected. Playing off the news and entertainment cycle is the best way to find common interests among a general audience.

Johnny, Jack, & A Book

Nassau Inn Yankee Doodle Tap Room
Ten Palmer Square
Princeton, NJ
http://www.nassauinn.com/dining/index.html

A Summer Evening In Stamford

488 Summer Street
Stamford, CT 06901
203.357.9800
http://www.dragonflyloungect.com/

What I'm Reading

Will let you know how they are. Read along if you'd like.

Brothers - edited by Andrew Blauner
How To Live - Henry Alford

Remembering Midnight Soul

 2004 - 2007

Reminisce 1. Reminisce 2. Reminisce 3.

Five and Counting

I learned of spoken word group El Grito des Poetas after watching two of the seven members perform on three separate occasions.  Talented poets spin words into journeys.  Good actors suspend disbelief.  Chance and Simply Rob lean back into memories, rock forward into personas, and speak with a momentum only a life lived, staggered, survived, and conquered can carry.  They carried the audience with them every time.  I had to see where the rest of the group would take me.