The Rolex Platinum series is cool

What Is Cool?

A Personal Testament
by Rodd Vano

I am a not a real New Yorker but one by default because there's really no other place to go if like me, your wish is just to be. For some strange reason the air is real still tonight. Well, at least below Fourteenth Street, where morals and chastity have been tossed over telephone wires like kids in Harlem used to do with worn-out pairs of Converse All-Stars, while prep school virgins from places like Chittlin' Switch, Georgia, and Peoria run with packs of heroin addicted hustlers along the Lower East Side out of spite because their overly protected mothers said "no" when it came to dating and make-up.

My counterfeit Timex that I bought earlier today on Canal Street in Chinatown reads 8:39 p.m. even thought the quiet skies are a perfect midnight blue. Like most things in this urban land , nothing is what it seems or is as simple as it gives the appearance of being.
Take for instance coolness. New York is supposed to be the cool capital of the world. Which I bet to some is no easy feat. I would be impressed but I'm not because I used to be cool.