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

the song is “amazing grace” and it is played by the black watch and the band of the welsh guards which is celebrity sighting of the week.

****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/.

****THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN FIND WHAT PRESIDENT BUSH IS DOING….MR. BUSH

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

****THE GABBY CABBY FIELD OFFICE IN IRAQ (the largest staff of any media office in the middle east)….this week's exclusive true tale is that there is a new secret weapon which has been disguised as a nyc taxi cab….not really, but we love the color.

****NEW YORKERS ARE BEING ROUNDED UP BY POLICE FOR BEING NAKED….well, at least semi-naked. 120 people went into the subway without their pants and were promptly stopped by the police. they will have to go to court. the real reason they went without pants was so that they would not be bothered by pickpockets. sometimes our police are stupid.

****MAN DIES WHILE SNOOZING ON SUBWAY….no one bothers him for six hours. there are some who say that is horrible. on the other hand, much nicer than suffering with some disease for months. did you ever hear the true tale about the guy who died in the back of the yellow mobile conveyance lounge?

****SPEAK NEW YAWK (people will wonder at your sophistication)….”shiker” is a drunk and a big one at that.

****OLD TIME RADIO (shows you might be too young to remember)…."lum & abner" was america as america was supposed to be. THE PAST

****THE GENERAL CUSTER MEDAL (given to one of our current military minds, not so bright) ….he is not military but he is a congressman. peter king of new york says there is nothing to worry about from osama. the first radio station to telephone for a new york city reaction was the pat kenny show on rte in ireland. OSAMA

****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)….”have you ever seen a bed bug?” according to a great many tourists who are interested in suing hotels, every room has bedbugs. by the way, the average hotel room in the big apple is now $292 per day not counting twenty percent worth of taxes.

****THE WHITE FEATHER (given to the coward of the past week)....the guy who bought the george washington painting by charles willson peale doesn’t want anyone to know who he/she is.

****QUIET PLEASE, THIS IS THE LIBRARY (get away from the din of life)….”the man from beyond” by gabriel brownstein published by w.w. norton & company is set in nyc in 1922. it has arthur conan doyle and houdini in it. can you talk to the dead?

****THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY (what the media didn't tell you)....they carried a story about the transportation security administration baggage screener who was sentenced to a year for stealing $80,000 from a passenger’s suitcase. the press should have mentioned that although this was a big catch, the stealing by the tsa is an almost daily occurrence.

****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

****THE HEY ABBOTT AWARD (an epistle about life).... peter lewis who underwrites panty raids at princeton university. EPISTLE

****CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE BIZARRE (hard to believe)....a driver got a ticket for going 124 miles per hour and he was in a car.

****POSSIBILITIES (could it not be?)....maybe someone should be inspecting the glue on the motor vehicle inspection stickers that are all falling off the windshields.

****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 "a black man acting like a black man with a son trying to be groovy in a junkyard." TV

****AMMA'S KITCHEN (a recipe)….this is what you would find cooking in a nyc home)….go catch a chicken and then add a little cacciatore. GOOD EATS

****JASON BLAIR AWARD (for the worst journalism during the previous week)….to the new york times for putting an emphasis on osama mentioning truce and then the newspaper sliding past his also threat to kill us all.

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

**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 where folks are taken to, listen to these commercials that were created for a "visit new york city promotion" at SPOTS

****CELEBRITY SIGHTING (media adulation)….the black watch and the band of the welsh guards in new jersey, wherever that is. STAR

****JOKE DU JOUR (told to me by the passengers)….this week the punch line is “my husband just came in the door” and you can hear it at AUDIO

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****LISTEN TO THE LATEST VERSION OF "NEW YORK, NEW YORK….it is written and sung by jack servello LISTEN

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