“Chopping the Street” is a look at white collar crime, hypocrisy and people’s fasciation with gossip. I wrote this post 9-11 in 2003 and I remember feeling really sad but writing this gave me pleasure.  My theory is Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda used the same inspiration as I did for their film Easy Rider meaning motorcycles as art and an expression of rebellion which is still iconic globally but the story is really about white collar crime which at the time I wrote this cost the tax payers of New York about 13 billion dollars as reported in The New York Post which I mention in the story. I verbally edit some words and leave out text because this is itunes not Playboy magazine. I am grateful to my good muses because inspiration is the life line for an artist and post 9-11, anything that gave me a natural high was truly needed and appreciated. Painting can be a painful process but writing isn’t and I don’t have to clean the paint brushes. Post 9-11, I became fascinated with transportation, fierce beautiful moving art. I include images of 2 of my paintings in the podcast which you can find on my website www.suzannahbtroyartist.com. The photo to the right is me standing by a painting of Truman Capote at the Chelsea Hotel. I hope you enjoy my 2nd podcast...This is a purely fictional tale and any similarities to anyone or group, club etc. is purely

coincidental.