A Priest and a Psychic walk into a New York Bar.

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” Steve Martin This is one of my favourite pictures of New York. It shows the density of the place. As I am taking a picture of the graffiti, in that split second of focusing, a yellow cab and a man on a motorised wheelchair drifted into frame. AContinue reading “A Priest and a Psychic walk into a New York Bar.”

Two Lessons From The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge.

“Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.” Louis Armstrong Chicago. It’s almost midnight and it’s cold. But not too cold. It’s the kind of cold that makes you alert. It gives the evening a crispness and makes the neon signs a little sharper. I stepped out of the cab onto the green glowing pavementContinue reading “Two Lessons From The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge.”

Advertising. The worst laugh is at the back of the room.

  “An egg is funny, an orange is not.” Fred Allen One of the most painful things you can ever see is a comic bombing. It is like watching somebody else being kicked in the balls but somehow you feel the pain. This was happening to me about a week ago. It was late atContinue reading “Advertising. The worst laugh is at the back of the room.”