Housekeeping: Please Continue To Lean Back

"Don't take that car into the South Bronx."

My father never misses a chance to remind me that I'm essentially a Midwestern boy on my own. Well, that's his fault, for moving me and Bark out here so we never got the chance to grow up as streetwise native New Yorkers the way he and my grandfather did. It's okay with me, actually. I like to visit the city as often as I can but I also like having room for six cars and seven motorcycles and, ah, however many guitars I have.

I've been on both coasts this week working on a couple of stories. Regular service here at Riverside Green will resume on Monday. Until then, here's the track I was listening to while I drove that mystery Ferrari down through the Bronx and Harlem. It's a true classic of New York rap and it's so well known that even the most grizzled homeless person in the city can sing along at a stoplight.