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Justin Cas
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Dieting is easy. It’s just like riding a bike. Except the bike is on fire. And you’re on fire. And you’re in hell.
6:02 PM - 10 Oct 2014
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Philip Gonçalves
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Dieting is easy, just like riding a bike. And the bikes on fire. And the grounds on fire. And everything’s on fire, because you’re in hell.
5:09 AM - 17 Nov 2014
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Garrett Crimmins
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Dieting is easy. It’s like riding a bike. And the bike is on fire. And the grounds on fire. And everything’s on fire because you’re in hell.
2:24 PM - 18 Nov 2014
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Race and Gender in Electronic Media:
Content, Context, Culture
Edited by Rebecca Ann Lind
New York, NY: Routledge
2017
Pg. ?:
You can even buy a t-shirt that says “Being an editor is easy. It’s like riding a bike except the bike is on fire you’re on fire everything is on fire and you’re in hell.”
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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