Building Freedom Tower  Paperbacknovel contributor Dick Sheppard, who works in an office directly overlooking the World Trade Center site,  tracks progress of the ascent of Freedom Tower in a detailed monthly journal. Freedom Tower, at 1776 feet, will be the tallest structure at the completely rebuilt site. [more]   Keep Building, Larry ! Dick Laresch covers opening of 7 WTC and chats with architects David Childs, Ken Smith, and reporters Deroy Murdoch, Felicia Taylor, and more..  [more]   Lunch on Larry  Dick Sheppard attends NY Senate Hearings on the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site, in the soon-to-be unveiled 7 WTC, and comes away with lunch on Larry, and the latest goings on.  [more]  Ground Zero Journal Miscellaneous notes on the scene of WTC in the months after Sept 11, 2001. [more]

Paperbacknovel.com Newsletter Travels the World Distribution of paperbacknovel.com newsletter around the world .. [more] Picture Show: Life on Top of the World A bird's-eye view of life amongst the clouds in lower Manhattan, NYC.    Skyscraper Museum Located in lower Manhattan, the Skyscraper Museum has a disappointing number of exhibits but the gigantic pre-construction model of the World Trade Center is worth the price of admission alone. [more] Port-o-Potties and Me ..the embodiment of the Woodstock concert. Something you can touch and feel, even after the concert is long gone. [more] Terrorist 'Tube' Steaks  ...After you’ve plastered up at the Tube, if you have a few crumply onesies and a few jingles of change, you tumble down the little Tube alley and weave your way across Kennedy Boulevard to complete the assault on that temple of your soul you ignore as your mortal body [more]

A Bull's Life: 

Lance Armstrong Rides the Bull

July, 2004: They’ve put up posters of Lance Armstrong all over NYC, above all the entrances to the subway, culminating in this building-wide poster downtown near Wall Street across from the bull. [more]

Seen Around Town:  Gwen Paltrow  and Coffee May, 2003: When seen last July, Gwenny Paltrow was walking the streets of Soho, NYC, spilling coffee on herself.  Two things about this picture: You gotta love the Gwenny Paltrow frown , and What the heck was she doing with a common street-vendor cup of coffee, and not a cup of Starbucks.. serves her right, and all that.. [more] A Good Night Out    "... I woke up about 4am this morning lying on Jefferson Avenue next to the reservoir, with my pants wet." [more]

Things that Are Illegal Flamingos on your front lawn, baby turtles, Sally Struthers, and the Knick City Dancers. [more] Men Rule Was reading an old American Spectator review of a book by superscum queen Helen Girlie Brown, and when she was in her 20's, she had a fling with the  Jack Dempsey, boxer.. Manassa Mauler Jack Dempsey, who was then in his 60's.  She said that when Jack was at the moment of climax - every time - he would start yelling, "Straighten me out, baby! Straighten me out!" I guess he felt like he was throwing a jab. This is so funny, I think every guy should have a "signature phrase" that he uses when he's getting ready to let fly the DNA. [more]

Seasonal: Christmas Cheer from Cuff's, Teterboro Airport, New Jersey

"...And through the window, the dainty snow offering a comforting seasonal backdrop. The Gulfstreams and Falcon Jets taxi-ing on the Teterboro runways, their bright lights fuzzy through the falling snow, obscured and yet beckoning of far off places....the muffled jet-revs not quite coming through over the bar, guffaws and shouts and yips of glee and warm feeling toward the fellow man. Kevin slinging booze like a banshee paced like a fine Arab horsey, everyone's glass is full or filled forthwith as needed..."  [more]

Geneology

How many grandparents do you have? Michael J. Fox had a couple when he went back to the future, the second time. If you went back in time into the 1800's to find your grandparents, you'd have as many as 128 people to look up -- or 64 couples. Even with a conservative estimate of a new generation born every 30 years, the number of your grandparents quickly escalates as you go backwards. [more]