When it all winds down, I will find other worthy ways to occupy a perfect spring day — gutters to repair, old Mustangs to refurbish, elusive rainbow trout to chase.
That rain chain represented a copper-clad exclamation point to the anchor project of my two-day gutter-thon: the replacement of the 12-foot section that nearly killed my wife and my grill.
But Iverson's response to the fan Sunday was gutter mentality.
Tomorrow at 9 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212 533-2111, $20. (Sinagra) REVEREND HORTON HEAT, SUPERSUCKERS (Wednesday) The gutter guitar psychobilly evangelist Rev. Horton Heat continues to lean hard on dirty South showmanship.
Stasis Obukauskas, 41 years old, the consul and second secretary in the Soviet Embassy, left home Monday night in the car, and his body, with three bullet wounds in the head, was found Tuesday in a gutter.
"I told her she would wind up dead, that they were going to find her in the gutter one day," he said.
The daughter's last words to her mother were "I'm so worried that they're going to find you one day dead in a gutter".
In fact, I was up on a ladder bleaching the gutters the day my real estate broker came over to assess the situation.
Gayzer Tarjanyi, who lives near Blackpool, is not so sure: he was painting his gutters the day before the second tremor.
(Sisario) GUTTER TWINS (Wednesday) Two of the broodingest singers in alternative rock, Greg Dulli (of the Afghan Whigs) and Mark Lanegan (of Screaming Trees) are the Gutter Twins, groaning through their debut, "Saturnalia" (Sub Pop), as if answering a dare to the make the most aimlessly depressive album ever.
Natural gas continued to trade in the gutter on Thursday–$2.96 per thousand cubic feet, or the equivalent of $18 a barrel which cuts into BP's profits.
