Category Archives: 80s

Fast Healer by Mark Kamins

The headlights reflected off the rain-scarred streets. I saw her eyes,twisted, bloodshot red, dazed, as she looked at me. She didn’t see the gunshot wound. It wasn’t the first and I know it wouldn’t be the last. I had fucked up. It’s fucking hard trying to make a quick peso, a fast G, in the […]

BoomBox Exhibition HOUSE OF ART

BOOMBOX THIS FRIDAY NIGHT 7-9 408 MARCUS GARVEY BOULEVARD THAT IS IN BROOKLYN.

Asshole

My old corner on East 10th street was always hot. Reefer, cocaine, and heroin were the action, but the dealers and I had an understanding. No one dealt off my stoep and I didn’t call the police. If someone dealt off my stoep, I still didn’t call the police. I fucked with them myself. The […]

Sleeping Beauty

The actress Tilda Swinton has been scheduled to sleep in a glass box at Mew York’s Museum of Modern Art throughout the month as a performance called THE MAYBE. Museum goers enjoy the spectacle of celebrity within arm’s length, but the talented Ann Magnuson related her sleeping beauty story at Area in 1983. “Eric Goode […]

Last Meal In Les Halles

Back in May 1982 Walter Durkacz and I celebrated my 30th birthday with a luncheon at our favorite Paris cafe, which served the gourmands of Les Halles. I ordered the steack au poivre and Walter had the sole. He was a very slow eater, so I drank wine waiting for him to finish his meal. […]