JUST PRESS THE START BUTTON IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC….

the song is “summer in the city” and it is a fitting tune whilst the heat in the big apple puts puddles of sweat into the shoes of the citizens.

****NEW YORK CITY SHOWCASE (DESIGNER LINE OF CLOTHING)….see it all at SWELL

****LATE BREAKING NEWS (updated daily)…. it is our blog which changes every day. this time you can click on TODAY but in the future, you can go to it directly each day at http://epistle.blogs.com/.

****JASON BLAIR AWARD (for the worst journalism during the previous week)….the reporting on four star general kevin byrnes who was fired for having an adulterous affair when it wasn’t adulterous. there must be something else going on and the media is too lazy to search for it. how come this true american hero is out? it is going to be the next “watergate?” take a look at this week’s “hey abbott award” for some related information.

****THE HEY ABBOTT AWARD (an epistle about life)....this guy is worse than a poisonous spider when it comes to the safety of our troops in iraq and afghanistan. our military doesn’t even have enough of the proper body armor. he is secretary of the army francis j. harvey and what an evil man he is. he doesn’t care about the troops. he cares about the bottom line and whether or not he gets a piece of the action….and we don’t mean military action, we mean money. thanks to him and his defense contractor buddies, fortunes are being made on these wars. he should be thrown out of the pentagon. EPISTLE

****TWO WARS ARE BETTER THAN ONE…. some people die, some people make profits with u.s. army contracts. WAR

****THIS HORROR IS NOT HAPPENING BY ACCIDENT….new york’s lakes and ponds are becoming very dangerous places to put your toes into. the snakehead fish grow to more than three feet long and have rows of sharp teeth. they can breath and walk on land. authorities believe that someone is deliberately putting the monsters into the waters. FISH

****ARE YOU GOING TO THIS NEW YORK SENATOR’S NEXT PARTY?...we think not, unless you have $26,700 per person to shell out for dinner. that was the price tag on the one senator charles schumer had in southampton long island on july 30th. what possible reward could a contributor get for handing the political hack that kind of money? senator hillary clinton’s recent two dinner parties were only priced at $4,200 per person. CHUCKY and HILLARY

****SPEAK NEW YAWK (people will wonder at your sophistication)….”schpeel” someone giving you a selling job on something which could be good or bad.

****OLD TIME RADIO (shows you might be too young to remember)….this time it is "blondie." THE PAST

****THE SNEAKY CAMERA (the hidden camera)….a growing collection of new yorkers are unaware that they are being watched by a certain taxi driver. new ones are added from time to time. take a peep at SNEAKY

****YENTA YACK FROM THE BACK OF THE HACK (what they are talking about in the yellow mobile conveyance lounge)….new york city is going to enact a law that will require less “fat” in the food we all eat. hysterical first.

****THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY (what the media didn't tell you)....they told us that the cops arrested a few guys for having a cockfight at one particular place in the bronx. someone is sleeping at the switch here. there are hundreds of these going on in the city. COCKS

****STAY INDOORS IF IT RAINS (keep dry)....the hispanic society at broadway and 155th st. it is considered the best in the world outside of spain. UMBRELLA TIME

****THE EARL THEATER (it used to be on 161st street in the bronx. now it is here and this month's feature is "park avenue" which shows you how you are so poor because you don't live on this avenue with the rich people. PARK

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**AND THAT NEAT MOVIE HOUSE ALWAYS SHOWED A DOUBLE FEATURE AND HERE WE ARE WITH A SECOND FLICK. this is a wonderful trip around new york city in the famous yellow mobile conveyance lounge. HONK HONK

****TAKE A HIKE (discovering where the famous and infamous spots are) ….george gershwin lived at 34 west 34th street. porgy and bess were born here. GEORGE

****CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE BIZARRE (hard to believe)....a cable tv installer was caught giving people free service. will he have tv in his cell?

****POSSIBILITIES (could it not be?)....our mayor bloomberg hates chinese people? he announced that chinese food is no good for your health. this could be an economic disaster for the chinese restaurants. the waiters and the busboys and the cooks will all be in the poor house and then they will have to eat american foods.

****STOP THE MUSIC (do you know what tv show this theme came from?)….the audio on the television shows was better than the show most of the time. a hint is "he was a cuban." TV

****THE MOST WANTED TOUR IN THE BIG APPLE…. here are some happy visitors. you too can have a tour by going to TOUR INFO

you can hear what one of them has to say about john carney, who is the host of kmox in st. louis. they listen to him on the radio. CARNEY

**to listen to what other happy tourists had to say about the tour, just go AUDIO

**to see some additional happy tourists perform in short video productions go VIDEO

**to hear broadcast spots about some of the places i take folks to, listen to these commercials that were created for a "visit new york city promotion" at SPOTS

****CELEBRITY SIGHTING (media adulation)….keith urban, a guy from way down younder. in the park. singing for free. STAR

****JOKE DU JOUR (told to me by the passengers)….this week the punch line is about two doctors and a lawyer and you can hear it at AUDIO

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