Playing Catch

Adam Wade, thank you for a terrific hour of conversation about our love for sports and J Geils.

http://adamwade.com/

Most of all, thank you for reminding me that in our lives the best moments, our greatest memories, have nothing to do with stadiums, ballparks, uniforms, organized leagues. All those things are meaningful in their own way, but as you pointed out, what matches your Dad buying you the Pete Rose book on hitting at Caldor's? Or you playing ball with an aluminum bat with the older guys, day in, day out, them letting you younger guys play for years, what tops that? Playing catch with your Dad or your brother, Matt?

My strongest sports memory today: my sandlot 83rd Street team winning the rag tag whiffle championship in 1973 at Rhinelander's Settlement House on 88th St, and having Whiffle Ball Commissioner, John Stanton, with his biblical beard present us with the Whiffle Ball Championship trophies on the ball field facing Nagel Funeral Home on 87th Street in front of half the neighborhood's kids, including a bunch of girls I'd love to date? We had ten starters, not nine, because a guy had to play the roof of the two story building in dead center, the roof was in play.

After we won the whiffle ball championship game we marched down to Carl Schurz Park on the East River with a shopping cart full of records and Eddie Ekis's stereo. We plugged the stereo into an electrical outlet at the base of a light pole near the Hockey Field and rocked out with The J Geils Band until the cops chased us out of the park around midnight.

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you can listen to last night's show ~ cut & paste the link below into your url:

mms://nick9.surfernetwork.com/CBNFiles/Yorkville 9.7.10.WMA

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You can see Adam perform next Monday night:

Mon Sept 13th 2010 ~ 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Horse Trade Presents
*Time Out New York Critic's Pick*
"THE ADAM WADE SHOW"
Special Guest: Peter Aguero
Theater Under St. Marks
94 St. Mark's Place
$5

I'm reading for We Three Productions @ Bar 82 @ 136 Second Avenue @ 8pm on Sept 13th (same night, stinky). We Three reading series was formerly at the late great Telephone Bar, R.I.P. Next week, my radio guest is a wonderful writer, Coree Spencer. Sit on a stoop and please listen in.

Great Radio Last Night ~ Storytelling Shows This Friday & Saturday

Centanni Radio ~ in New York City, had a wonderful Tuesday night at Giovanna's Restaurant, courtesy of Davino, master chef.

Diana Navarro, Johnny Mandolin, Valerie & Betty, and Yorkville Stoops to Nuts all had outstanding shows.

Thank you, Eric Vetter, for being a charming and knowledgeable guest, please come back soon. Many songs to play and slices of life to discuss. Thank you, for re-introducing me to Bill Withers. I wish you continued success with "No Name... & A Bag O' Chips" the super comedy & variety show at Otto's Shrunken Head.

I'm having fun, the radio show is getting better all the time. I think Paul puts my feelings best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0dBZ1meio

Here is the Centanni archive link for last night's "Yorkville: Stoops to Nuts" show with a Bobby Thomson tribute, "The Giants Won the Pennant!,"

Please listen at your leisure. be well, Tommy

Yorkville: Stoops to Nuts 8/17/2010 with host Tommy Pryor & guest: Eric Vetter

~ Storytelling shows this Friday & Saturday ~

Professor Adam Wade proudly presents storytelling excellence at Magnet Studio Theater @ 259 West 30th Street, @ 2nd Fl.

Eleven graduating students tell eight minute stories.

Friday, August 20th @ 8:30pm ~ six stories

Saturday, August 21st @ 8pm ~ five stories

Adam's hosting both ***Free shows*** Here's what you'll hear.

Kidnapping parents sabotage show. Blair Witch goes to Jesus Camp. But I don’t want to date her, do I have to? Prodigy’s fibs sail over the backboard. Body parts stuck together for the main feature, Jackie Brown. Band uniforms disappear, someone’s gonna pay. Blanche Dubois’s windpipe problem. Private school teachers in trouble ~ film at eleven. Got the number, lost the girl. Why it’s a good idea to keep your iPod library to yourself. It’s your apartment, over her dead body.

Come to both shows, throw fruit if we stink!


Show 1 - Friday @ August 20th @ 8:30pm

Celeste Arias, Chrissy Brown, Dan Diggles, Megan Gray, Erin Kilkenny, Miguel de Leon


Show 2 - Saturday @ August 21st @ 8pm

Kelly Wallace-Barnhill, Lindsay Gentile, Henry Johnson, Rachel Pertile, Tommy Pryor

Mickey Goes Five for Five and He's Playing Two!

Two nights ago, I joined Valerie & Betty on their live Centanni radio show from Giovanna's Restaurant on Lexington Avenue & 100th Street. The food is fantastic. We talked baseball, work, neighborhoods, and vendors selling rice balls & fireworks in the street. Thank you, Val & Betty for having me on. You can listen to that show by going to the Valerie & Betty Show archive and click on July 6th.

http://www.centannibroadcasting.com/

My first radio show is five days away.

Yorkville: Stoops to Nuts every Tuesday @ 9pm live from Giovanna's and also on your computer at this link:

http://www.centannibroadcasting.com/

One hour devoted to storytelling about neighborhood places, characters, and institutions with terrific guests & music. They'll be shows on the RKO 86th Street, Old Yankee Stadium, Carl Schurz Park, Clay Cole Show, and various Yorkville taverns & shops. Tune in, I'll take you back.


My first guest is Michael "Mickey" Fiorillo. Mickey was born on the 500 block on 84th Street in 1933. He currently works for the Mets at Citifield in customer service. During his rich long career, Mickey occupied a few stools in Kronks, Old Timers Tavern & Loftus Tavern, joined the Army, starred at bat & in the field for Yorkville tavern softball teams, iron worker at the Trade Center, off-Broadway & film actor, tavern keeper and Yorkville son his entire life. Mickey's ready, and he's playing two!

Yorkville on the Radio

The urinals in the bathroom of the 86th Street RKO were so big, we hid inside them when we played hide & seek after we watched the film too many times. On a regular basis, I went to the Loew's or RKO in Yorkville for the first show around 11 am and didn't come out of the theatre until it was dark.

In the RKO, Steve Murphy and I made a human ball wrapping ourselves around each other, and threw ourselves down the three-story high horseshoe staircase, we rolled like a barrel. The carpet on the stairs was so thick it hardly hurt. No evidence, till the next day when black and blues sprung up all over our bodies. This was not a big hit with RKO personnel.

Last night, I was Valerie Pepe's guest on her terrific radio show on the Centanni Broadcasting Network. Thank you, Valerie, Betty & Johnny Anello. We told Yorkville & Staten Island neighborhood stories, you can listen by going to the link below ~ go the "The Valerie & Betty Show 5/19/10" ~ click and the show should open in your media player. After you listen, take your kid to a movie and leave them there for the day.

http://www.centannibroadcasting.com/