The Bronx has some funny ideas when it comes to Halloween. It's all or nothing. Sheets wrapped around a tree or a thousand skeletons. The doorway is so apocalypse now. 🎃🏮 #halloween #thebronx #creepybronx #huntspoint #halloweendecorations

I saw this sign in a Mexican restaurant the other day. It's the only thing that makes me laugh.

Cornwall, England?

I found this picture of Rudy Giuliani on Creative Commons. When he was US Attorney, Giuliani prosecuted the guy I wrote about. He was brave then, going after the Mafia. Now?

Speaking of crime, I saw this in midtown recently. Garbage everywhere, and some gold mannequins. Like they're waiting for an Uber. I especially like the garbage across the street in front of a sign that says "Good Life." 🍄 #garbage.

Here's the guy I wrote about a few years before he got a 30 year sentence for loansharking. How great does New York look with yellow taxis and Howard Johnsons in neon?

Very nice. Dramatic. Makes you want to know more. Not sure what the white is. But the red against the night is powerful. Cool!

Recording a "mob" podcast later today about Mel Cooper, the subject of Wiseguys, Rabbis, and the FBI, so I'm brushing up on documents from US v Rotondo, 1985. Arrest warrants, indictments, transcripts. This is what it looks like when you get caught. 🏛️ 🚓 😳 #gettingcaught #truecrime #mafia #nycrime

How beautiful. A linocut from 1933. When art like this took time.

What's your secret? How do you concentrate? Lately, I get through one page, and I don't remember what I read the next day (this, from an avid reader.)

It's just unbelievable. The lying is contrary to everything we learned as schoolchildren in the US about the importance of telling the truth. And these are "conservatives." What are they conserving?

New York at night on the upper West side, a couple of weeks ago from a friend's roof. Something about the bright, small square windows and the water towers against the sky. I never get tired of it.

Criminals rationalize. They have a perfectly good reason for every harmful, destructive, insane action they take. Here's what the one I wrote about (below) says: "Unethical is not necessarily illegal." Sound familiar?

So deeply, horribly Orwellian.

When you say "digital piece," do you mean you did it in PS, or with Wacom tablet/brush, or one of the other digital painting tools? I don't think you mean AI-generated.

What is it about birch trees, Birchman? I keep buying artwork of them - mostly in autumn. And when there's a storm, they collapse! Very mysterious trees.

I made a video for my book. Turns out making a book trailer is really fun; it's like a mini-movie. Here's PT I, The Arrest. PT. II is The Escape. Yeah, the guy talking in the video escaped from prison.

So much crime. And we only call it crime after we're caught. So many ways to rationalize; as the subject of my book (below), "Wiseguys, Rabbis, and the FBI" told me, "unethical is not necessarily illegal." He got a 30 year prison sentence.