The cover of the new Vil­lage Voice “Best of NYC 2010” issue is pretty hilarious—the ridicu­lous image of a yellow cab with mon­ster truck wheels made me laugh.  But I really started to laugh, I got pretty happy in fact, when I looked at the build­ings in the background.  See the pizza joint?  That’s Cor­leone Pizza. I remem­ber the place.  It’s in freak­ing Los Ange­les! Down­town, in the jew­elry dis­trict. I walked passed it the last time I was in town.  I guess the ques­tion here is why is there a pic­ture of Los Ange­les on the cover of the Vil­lage Voice’s “Best of NYC 2010” issue? Good one, Voice!  I’m outta here!

A few things: Bobby and I are read­ing together at Seattle’s Pilot Books on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 16 at 7:30 pm.  The Stranger lists the event here.  I’m think­ing about singing this song from Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel at the event.  Anyone in the New York met­ro­pol­i­tan area who can give me a few lessons, teach me how to flex my voice like this, please let me know.  Finally,  a sudden bit pulled from Fitzgerald’s The Crack Up: “They ran for it through a blind­ing white hot crash.”

Up now, go here to read it. Just in time for fall, which offi­cially begins in the North­ern Hemisphere on Sep­tem­ber 22. We’re living on the edge!

One of the main plea­sures of the Andy Warhol: The Last Decade show at the Brook­lyn Museum is sit­ting down with the four copies of Inter­view mag­a­zine from the 1980s bolted to a small table by some steel string.  I looked at two of them, the one with Richard Gere on the cover (Octo­ber 1983) and the one with Robin Williams on the cover (August 1986).  You can just flip through them, and though your read­ing expe­ri­ence may be slightly hin­dered by the clamps attached to the string in the lower right hand corner of each issue—you’ll miss some words that way even if you peel back the pages with some force—it’s still really worth it, it’s very relax­ing, to sit there and read the inter­views and look at the ads.  There’s an ad, for instance, for Petaluma, the Ital­ian restau­rant on 73rd and 1st.  The show will be taken down this Sunday, Sep­tem­ber 12.