Thoughts on taking the re-eye to New York City tomorrow
When I used to have a steady job at the law office, I could always
travel in style -- flying to places, using major airlines and even
staying in actual hotels. Those days are long gone.
These days it's all about taking the Greyhound or the MegaBus or using
cheapo airlines that don't allow luggage, and sleeping on couches. But
still. It gets me there. Use it or lose it. Anything to get to New
York.
On this trip I'm going to do some new things while I'm there -- stay in
Harlem, follow the trail of the Harlem Renaissance, relive my youth
spent in the second balcony of the Apollo Theater and, hopefully, eat at
the Red Rooster.
But I'm also going to do some things that are the same -- attend the
grand BookExpo America at the Javits Center, eat borsch and rice pudding
at B&H Dairy on the Lower East Side and take a bus past the United
nations building, giving it the one-finger salute for its role in enabling all those NATO/American/Saudi/Israeli brutal, inhumane and
criminal massacres in the Middle East to go on and on and on and on and
on. http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/Events/An-Evening-with-Senator-Bernie-Sanders/
At the BookExpo, I'm gonna once again attempt to peddle my four
wonderful books to the publishers and attendees there. "Librarians!
Listen up!" I've just finished re-reading my first book, "Bring your Own
Flak Jacket: Helpful Tips for Touring Today's Middle East" -- and it's
as funny and accurate and crucially important today as it was back in
2007. https://www.amazon.com/Bring-Your-Own-Flak-Jacket/dp/0978615719/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Yes, all of that shite that I wrote about back then is still going on today -- and from Afghanistan to Gaza, America is still
the biggest problem in the Middle East. And we Americans are still
sleeping on couches and pinches pennies to pay for it too.
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