Okay well, here goes nothing. This is my first attempt at writing about my growing up in the Bronx. This is a very light romp through my formative years, you the reader will get an inside look into the neighborhoods and characters that made me laugh, cry and almost always kept it interesting. There are sixty-two neighborhoods that make up the Bronx and I must have lived in and/or hung out, in about half of them at one time or another.

Basically it is the love affair that I have had with what I believe is the best place in the world to “grow up” and I use that term very loosely (because I’m still waiting). Now for those of you who have known me and feel slighted in any way because you are not recognized in this book, don’t feel bad (although I probably would and you probably should), it could be just an omission due to a lack of remaining brain cells. Let’s face it, after forty plus years here in the Bronx; we have done a LOT of booze and drugs (mostly booze) and I can’t be expected to remember everything. So I may not just think that you’re a “douchebag”, I may have legitimately forgotten you. If you DID make the cut, I will figure out how to give you proper credit (as long as it doesn’t cost me anything and I won’t be sued) when I try to get this published. If for some reason you don’t want to be mentioned by name (because maybe you are now an elected official, member of the clergy, wanted by the police or have kids and don’t want them to know what a freak you really are) and the story about you is funny I have made the necessary changes to hide your identity, but the story stayed. So if you are the Priest who woke up naked in the confessional covered in blow and little boys tears with something lodged in your colon…your story is NOT in here you sick bastard, I would have had you killed by professionals. These stories are mostly the funny things that happened either before, during or after we got twisted. To those of you who regret signing the waiver, I am truly and deeply grateful that you are a douche-nick.

So this is just the intro to my as yet untitled book. I will be dedicating much of this year to working on this and have spoken to some people about getting it published. The product will be more comedic novel than auto-biography. Leave me a comment, letting me know what you think…