Did yo know that the tallest guy in the world is a Chinese man around 8 feet tall? So much for stereotypes. The shortest guy in the world, an Australian around two feet tall traveled to China recently to [...]

CRESPO LIVE AT THE NYC MARATHON It's that time of year again. The New York City Marathon is coming, the first Sunday of November. That's as important date for me for two reasons [...]

JD sure changed. Pretty fast, too. When I met him he was in his early twenties, fresh out of the Army and Vietnam, where he earned a bunch of medals in combat. He was also a musician, a hell of a player with a knack for [...]

Skeets is a bastard, a real son of a bitch. Which doesn’t make him a bad guy. Runs a sloppy, happy good-time joint on Staten Island just like the one he had in Brooklyn for a lot of years. Comedy shows, some good blues, a little [...]

I’ve got a painting stick. Had it for 8 or 9 years now. You know the type, an aluminum telescoping stick that screws on the end of a paint roller to paint ceilings. Painted a ton with it, never had a problem. Anyway, the last [...]

This last tale was dictated to me by a very interesting canine I met in a junkyard one day: My name is Frank. I’m a dog. Humans call me Scout, a name I despise. Oh, I answer to it, alright, because, what the hell, they’re only [...]

It’s true. Nobody listens. You. Me. The next person and the one next to him. I don’t know if it’s arrogance, mulish stubbornness, self-absorption or simply the nature of the human beast, but it’s true. Nobody [...]

I found this slipped under my door. Thought I’d share it with you. Earth here.Yes, that Earth. Third stone from the sun. The planet on which your butt is seated. That’s right, it’s the world talking to you. I know [...]

Late 1970′s. Living with Miss Dru in Brooklyn’s Park Slope in a huge apartment we barely used. She was in publishing. At that time there was a great deluge of books about Elvis Presley, what with him being newly dead and all. [...]

Interesting item in the paper the other day. Our intrepid science researchers are working on extending the life span of humans to 200 years and more, roughly three times our current allotted time. Cool, you might say at first glance. [...]