It seems like every time someone mentions The Warriors, the 1979 movie about a NYC gang that has to fight their way from the Bronx back to their home turf in Coney Island, I end up going on and on about the fact that the book (which became the movie, which became the video game, which will become the remake of the movie next summer) is a retelling of Xenophon’s Anabasis. The Anabasis tells the story of 10,000 Greek mercenaries fighting their way back home from what is now Iraq and Turkey. They know they are near the end of the ordeal when they top a hill and see the Aegean Sea and shout “Thalatta, Thalatta!” (The sea, the sea!)
Where did I learn all this? This book, the perfect gift for anyone planning on spending their whole Christmas vacation on the couch playing the video game. Okay, maybe not the perfect gift... the perfect antidote?
On one of the last summer Fridays of 2005, a band of Overlookers battled their way from Soho to Brighton Beach for an afternoon of laying around on the sand, playing games of catch, and finally eating entirely too much Russian food on the boardwalk.
Photos:
(above) Peter doing his best Baseball Furies impersonation.
(below) Alex, Katy, John Mark, Peter, Liese and Josh at Tatiana on the boardwalk.
--John Mark
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