these transit workers are making me thirsty.

give em hell transit workers! bring a great city to its knees.

unfinished first morning transit strike diary.

7.30 am. wake up. check nytimes website. steeeeeerike! back to bed.

8 am. wake up for real. put on howard stern. it’s a ‘best of’ with sam kinnison. turn it off—sometimes i just can’t listen to recorded talk radio. the whole point (or one of the points) of talk radio is that it’s live. put on tv: fox five news. fox has been treating the strike like new years, what with their COUNTDOWN TO TRANSIT STRIKE. IF YOU MISS THIS STRIKE YOU BETTER BE DEAD, OR IN JAIL. AND IF YOU’RE IN JAIL, BREAK OUT!!!

for this year’s strike, the part of transport workers union head roger toussaint will be played by forest whittaker.










(btw, i just realized that i’ve completed the trifecta—ive been in the city for 9.11, the most recent blackout, and now the most recent transit strike. give that boy a kewpie doll!)

(btw part deux—do bloomberg’s chauffeur and personal assistant count towards the minimum passenger rule when he takes his limo to city hall? mayor mike’s like: ‘i want you to know, i am taking my manicure in my rolls royce today. so i am not violating the car pool statute.’ OR bloomberg’s in his mercedes, flying by the city limits right now, singing: ‘so long suckers!’)

8.22 am. write email to work. “not coming in. will work from home.” plan to be in email contact with colleagues.

8.32. rightly conclude that the most likely scenario is Bloomberg flying over the city in a hot air balloon, which burns hundred dollars bills and food stamps for fuel.


9.03. go to breakfast with danny at little Mexican lunch-counter place across the street. good, but the chorizo in my eggs was a little too spicy. and in the no good deed goes unpunished dept., danny might have had his miniature tropicana juice box stolen by one of the kids on premises when he got up from the counter to close the front door.

10.12. see clip of Bloomberg walking downtown to city hall, all bundled up. conclude that if you’re mayor, you have to forsake the limo no matter what on days such as this. otherwise they’ll destroy you. so i was wrong about that.

roger t. is all over the news. the dude's getting drunk with power. tomorrow he's gonna give all his press conferences wearing a leopard pelt and holding a scepter.

11.02. see clip of dude rollerblading across the brooklyn bridge. cuz if gabriel cant rollerblade to work, then the transit workers have truly won.