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A tenth anniversary party will be held Saturday afternoon to celebrate the invincibility of the construction site located at 49-18 Vernon Boulevard. As spring bursts forth, come one, come all to celebrate the resilience of a project whose regenerative spirit endures season after season, year after year.

TWELVE years ago this Saturday LICtalk was born. But long before conception, which for Editors occurs 11 months before birth to increase brain cells, there were ideas, feelings, tones, and appearances that were being formed based on various predecessors. Here I will share four that had a significant impact on what became LICtalk.

THE Super Bowl is a major celebration and extravaganza for most people, but for some it’s more like a funeral. The season is over and they are suddenly bereft of NFL action for six whole months of Sundays. Talk about withdrawal, there’s some serious cold-turkey with nothing but meaningless regular season NHL/NBA games and zero of substance sports-wise (=life-wise?) until March Madness begins six weeks later. No gridiron methadone for addicts come mid-winter.

So this is Christmas
And what have you done?
Another year over
And a new one just begun

WELL LIC, we’ve come to the end. And it’s not really all that different than the way we began. In Long Island City anyway.