Monthly Archives: June 2023

June 21, 1990 – Paris – Journal Entry

Rainy day in Paris. A great title for my sixth novel, which I will be writing when I’m 110. Spook Jacobs sent my lease renewal for 256 East 10th Street along with letters from the past five months of my travels; two from AJ, one from Sharon who has come out of rehab, from Nina […]

2 X The Man 3 X The Woman

Yesterday I was at the Tuesday Wat Chai market looking for bootleg Bugs Bunny DVDs for my son. There were none and I left the open-air square, heading for my tailor. Pinky was making a new jacket for me. Cut to size. Walking down Pattaya Tai a woman called my name. The pseudonym. It was […]

Banksy?s Jean-Michel Basquiat

Banksy’s Basquiat being stop and searched (2017) on show in Glasgow. Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images. All the cops working the dope streets of the lower East Side knew Jean-Michel and that he carried money with him. He was a steady source of cash and a golden goose For the 9th precinct. Unlike Michael Stewart […]

Fucking with Robots

Amusing yourself in a hospital I can’t believe how satisfying fucking with the robot is. Robots built to obey Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics from I ROBOT. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by […]

Father’s Day Gift

My father came around the world to see me and Angie in Thailand. Most of the time he had no idea where he was. It was the start of his decline. Frank A Smith II passed in 2010, but my father will always be in the here-now with the love I carry for him into […]