Category Archives: 90s

GOP Shutdown

September 28, 2013 – 2:40 pm

The GOP’s hard-right members have refused to relent on their demand that Obamacare be delayed for one year or else they will not approve a budget to finance the government. House Speaker John A. Boehner has attempted to reason with the Tea Party representative, whose leaders are adamant on their stance against any form of […]

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Waiting For My Man

August 11, 2013 – 1:49 pm

The year was 1997. The night New Year’s Eve at the Helmuth Building on West 18th Street and 7th Avenue. The party was hosted by my good friend, Juliana, and music provided by her music fanatic ex-husband. A Chelsea loft filled with old jazz musicians, real estate moguls, and a crew of Italian visitors. The […]

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Koh Tao

April 23, 2013 – 8:48 pm

In 1990 I traveled around the world. NYC-LA-HONOLULU-BIAK-AMBON-BALI-JAVA-SUMATRA-SINGAPORE-BANGKOK-NEPAL-DELHI-PARIS-LONDON-NYC The Singapore to Bangkok segment of the trip was overland and I detrained in Suranthani to catch a midnight ferry to Koh Samui. I stayed at Coral Cove for $5 and after two weeks boated over to Koh Phanghan then finally took a little boat to Koh […]

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HOCKEY CHICK

February 10, 2013 – 3:56 pm

Back in the 90s I had an affair with a punk rock singer. Claudia wasn’t the prettiest girl in the East Village, in fact some of my friends considered her ugly, because of her long twisting nose, however Slatta liked me and no woman in New York had liked me for a long time, so […]

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Chance Encounters of a Presidential Kind

January 17, 2013 – 12:46 pm

Presidents run in high circles with world leaders, government officials, senators, financiers. Most Americans will never meet their President. The layers of security are supposedly impenetrable with a phalanx of Secret Service agents preventing any unauthorized encounters, but the screen around Barack Obama failed at a state dinner in 2009, when two party-crashers gained access […]

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