Sunday, August 16, 2009

Lost & Found in New York

Posted by Mickey Z on 08/16 at 06:06 AM

  2. congratulations on getting in a New York anthology. you must be quite proud of that??

    With the New York thing it has been pointed out that Woody Allen has made so many films about New York making him neurotic and stressed - other people have asked the question why the f**k did he not just move somewhere else?

    Posted by michael from nearer scotland  on  08/16  at  10:25 AM

  3. I have some very bad Expendable news. James - formerly of Hell’s Kitchen - was killed Friday night while riding his bike across Queens Blvd. I’ll post more about him in a day or two. Right now, well, I’m completely shocked.

    Anyone wanting wake and funeral info can e-mail me or check James Langergaard’s Facebook page.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  08/16  at  01:15 PM

  4. Mickey...that is terrible news. Please, post more about James. Shocking - so terribly sad....

    There have been 3 traffic deaths within a mile of where I live in the past few weeks - and I don’t live in a high traffic area. Drunk drivers and also distracted drivers are becoming more of a problem.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  08/16  at  04:09 PM

  5. Did it happen here?

    http://tinyurl.com/lpy5a5

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  08/16  at  04:35 PM

  6. James...this really is very sad news...I never met James, but I could get a very good sense about him as he wrote...This is tragic

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  08/16  at  04:55 PM

  7. Yes, tragic indeed. He loved his bike and was a proud cycling activist and this insane car culture took him from us.

    RMJ: I’m not exactly sure where on Queens Blvd. it happened but yeah, that thoroughfare is a nightmare.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  08/16  at  05:41 PM

  8. Black Armband Dept: James is gone. I’m stunned and sickened.

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  08/16  at  05:55 PM

  9. http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/in-memoriam-james-langergaard-bike-philosopher/

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  08/16  at  06:31 PM

  10. Thanks, Zen and JOS.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  08/16  at  07:41 PM

  11. No, no, no, no, no!

    Posted by Keir from here and there  on  08/16  at  09:33 PM

  12. On the same night James was killed, I was with a buddy driving through Manhattan.  A woman on a bicycle blew through a red light without looking at all, forcing my friend to slam forcefully on the brakes.  I remembering saying that it would have served her right if we hit her.

    I am feeling like the biggest, most evil sack of shit right now.

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  08/16  at  09:41 PM

  13. AMEN --

    MY HEART just felt the chill .. my arms r goose/bumped .. my heart sinks .. eyes water—JAMES .. a very compassionate man ..

    JAMES OFFERED a hand—earlier this year .. when MS was dragging my a** into THE ABYSS .. HE MADE A DONATION TO THE MS SOCIETY .. even though he had been out of work for sometime—I believe someone close to him also is “blessed” with the T-CELL run amuck .. f*ckeroo.. malady !!

    REST IN PEACE .. JAMES—YOUR PIX W/ MICK AND EXPENDABLES WILL HANG—PROUDLY ON THE WALL OF GLORY IN MY HEART !

    http://tinyurl.com/kkmawr footprints in the sand

    http://tinyurl.com/ku8o7a leona lewis/simon cowell wiki

    http://tinyurl.com/ld4qel THE POEM FOOTPRINTS ..

    richie

    note:  35 years ago .. 08/17/74—our firstborn son , TONY JOE, was born—10#3* .. TJ .. died 8 days later—in his Mother’s Arms at the U OF M HOSPITAL—MINNEAPOLIS -..cause: hypo-plastic left heart ..

    I will always remember the eve of his 35th anniversary/birthday .. now .. and forever—

    BLESS U JAMES IN YOUR NEW BEGINNING ..

    Posted by richie from st james city, FL  on  08/17  at  03:42 AM

  14. A post for James is up. It’s all I can do now.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  08/17  at  04:38 AM

  15. Regarding “Dissent is a Marathon,” a favorite quote of mine comes from a NJ Supreme Court decision some years ago. I’m too lazy to find the exact citation now, but it involved a man who had been engaging on a one-man protest in a town for years. He was quite the gadfly and in the course of all this had been arrested a few times on minor charges like trespassing.

    Town officials got fed up with him and tried to bar him from any further protests on the grounds that he had made his point and his position was clear, so further protest was unnecessary.

    In the course of overturning the ban, NJ State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Vanderbilt said:

    “Reform is not for the short-winded.”

    Here’s to being long-winded.

    Posted by LarryE from NE  on  08/17  at  03:45 PM

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