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Get used to hearing this today on the radio, TV, whatever... Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last Wake me up when Septembe...

His name is Matisyahu. He achieved some notoriety earlier this year and, as you're sitting there, scratching your heads, dig this: He...

Many readers have claimed to have had problems with BillyBlog "locking" and only showing a partial post. If you see this, try the ...

Behold: say what you will about Rob Reiner and Cary Elwes, even if you didn't like the movie, or even if you did, William Goldman's ...

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I finished DeLillo's Cosmopolis last Friday. Not his best, but still pretty good. I would definitely recommend it as a good "New Y...

A quick Sunday post, I am proud to announce that I have been added to Ron Silliman's blogroll. Silliman's blog is an inspiration fo...

This weekend is The New Yorker Festival . Normally, I like to attend an event or two, but the tickets have become so pricey and hard to get...

I will be spending some time over the next couple of months counting down my top 20 books of all time. I was just going to list them, but th...

Here's a new feature on Billyblog: the photo of the week. This week's photo is a close-up of a New York City subway map at the 23rd ...

The must-watch show in my home this Summer was Rockstar:INXS. I know reality TV gets a bad rap, but the producer of Survivor , Mark Burnett...

I had my pal Jill pick a number between 1 and 3, each representing a book stacked on my desk. The winner: Don Delillo's Cosmopolis . I u...

The esteemed New York Times Magazine has a new feature called "The Funny Pages." I mention it because it is worth checking out. h ...

Doppelgänger Manhattan is a gargantuan expanse but there he is, at every reading I attend: wooden eyes, baseball cap, dirty coat, pushing pa...

Last night I attended a reading at The New School for The Best American Poetry 2005. Every year they have one of these and every year, I tr...

Despite the report that I've been a member of Blogspot since July 2004, I have only now achieved the overcoming of the first day curse. ...

As many of you who know me know, I have an iPod and, although I'm not one of those people that has all the colored accessories, and the ...

Hard to believe Warren Zevon passed away 2 years ago last Tuesday in 2003. When listening to his music, I am still moved by the dark complex...

Hi all, a bit tired here. Rode in the NYC Century Bike Tour yesterday. Had hoped at the beginning of the Summer that I could pull off the 10...