The Xhaxahka File- Albanian Louie and Me

This idiot taxi driver continues to chew my ear off. Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades- attributed to many.                           Everyone knows the scene in Taxi Driver where Travis Bickel buys a couple of guns .    What comes out of this taxi driver Trump's mouth is more than a little self-serving. But the man offers some interesting tidbits. I promised him that I wouldn't tell anybody that he has a gun.  (This taxi driver ought to write a book.) In a way, I can't blame the poor schlub. They were robbing and killing taxi drivers left and right back then. My drone recorded his whole riff:    "Taxi drivers here in New York are not allowed to have guns or any kind of weapon at all.    "They passed a law that there would be a concealed gun permit lottery for taxi drivers with a...

MY HILARIOUS RUN IN WITH YOUNG mayor KOCH "There's no question it was a giant municipal sin and the worst municipal scandal of modern times. I think he paid a price for it; Koch never admitted that it contributed to his defeat in '89 but I believe it did. I think he transcended it in many ways. He had such a successful post-mayoral life and he had many successes as mayor. But this was such a dark side that he said himself he seriously contemplated suicide after Donald [Manes] killed himself.* So there was a moment in time when he came to grips with the shame of it." -  Jack Newfield on  Ed Koch I once had a run-in with Mayor Koch before he became Mayor. He was a Congressman from Greenwich Village. Koch made a name for himself by taking down the last old fashioned  Tammany Hall boss named Carmine Desapio. (I have a story about DeSapio too which I might tell you later.) So, when he was in Congress Slim came and went between New York and Washington all the time, usually ...

November 29, 2019           Mickey Cezar is a famous, infamous and controversial utopian communist gay Jewish marijuana dealer. A real New York character, he introduced telephone order marijuana.  Every year Cezar dresses up like the pope and gives out free joints to all who reach out at the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, and at Wigstock. David Peel sang about him and John Lennon and Yoko Ono produced the record, THE POPE SMOKES DOPE . Yep, that was about Mickey Cezar.     The Church's funds come from the sale and bicycle delivery of marijuana all over   the island of Manhattan, which includes Wall Street, the Theater District, really most of the places people think of when they         think of New York. (There was no World Commerce Center in those days and no land west of the West Side Highway.)    What Albanian Louie told me was that one place the pope gets his weed...

November 29, 201               There's three kinds of people in the world - pimps, hoes and tricks. - Peter The Pimp    I used to like cruising the track* over on 10th 11th Avenue in the 40s.    One night, that's what I was doing and I picked up these two pimps- really one pimp and his executive assistant who I think maybe was interning. Just to keep things simple I'm going to call them Peter The Pimp  and Paul The Executive Assistant.    They wanted to go up to this place near Woodlawn Cemetery just past the last stop on the number 5 train. It was the Christmas season and WKCR  was having on their two weeks of 24/7 Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music I happen to like a lot.    Actually I expected them to give me shit about this  but that is not what happened. I think they actually liked it and they started talkin' to me like I was, I don't know, a person on their level, or s...