Monthly Archives: August 2013

Jellyfish Stings

August 11, 2013 – 12:19 pm

Summering along the Cite D’Azur Krove was subjected to the lash of jellyfish tenacles. Painful red welts rose on his forearm. A French friend suggested dabbing the affected area with vinegar and a guest from New York said, “The boys at Riis Park used to pee on the welts.” “Well, I’m certainly not one of […]

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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Lou Reed

August 8, 2013 – 9:56 pm
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Drinking Not Writing

August 8, 2013 – 8:21 pm

Olivia Laing of the UK Observer noted on Saturday 27 July 2013 that writers like to drink. The first paragraph of her article depicts John Berryman’s suicide as a drunken tragedy without a single mention of his poetry. Henry rested, possessed of many pills & gin & whiskey. He put up his feet & switched […]

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Vanishing Everywhere

August 8, 2013 – 8:00 pm

“What did you miss about New York?” my friends asked me after my return from Thailand. Looking around the city I had to admit that during my eight year absence from the Big Apple I missed nothing of the now, but everything of the then. Gone were CBGBs, the St. Mark’s Theater, The Orchida, Times […]

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CBGBs The Movie

August 8, 2013 – 7:53 pm

I walked by CBGBs in the Autumn of 1976. I heard a band playing a cover of CALIFORNIA SUN by the Rivieras. It was the Ramones and I went to CBGBs every night for the next two years. Yes, I was a lucky man, because this movie can’t ever come close to the truth of […]

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