Category Archives: Activities

January 8, 1979 – East Village – Journal

February 13, 2024 – 1:54 pm

Sex becomes non status quo when one partner isn’t interested in it. Alice wallows in self-pity. Last night we went to a party and I danced with men and women like a neanderthal high of cocaine. Alice drank heavily, expecting me to go into the bathroom with a woman or man, but I don’t want […]

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The Sierras All Around Me

January 15, 2024 – 10:48 am

A man in a snowy parking lot. The Sierras All around him. Early morning. 8:35AM The car packed. The engine running. Snow underfoot. The Sierras all around him Mount Rose gleams with fresh snow. Sunny. 30 degrees. It’s 38 in Tucson. Arizona. Over a thousand miles away. He turns around and looks at the ski […]

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With My Bare Hands – Anthony Bourdain

December 3, 2023 – 11:13 am

I have always admired Anthony Bourdain, but never more than when he wrote in A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that […]

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NOVEMBER 10, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

November 12, 2023 – 2:02 pm
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GUNGA DIN by Rudyard Kipling

November 11, 2023 – 11:44 pm

I was chokin’ mad with thirst, An’ the man that spied me first Was our good old grinnin’, gruntin’ Gunga Din. ’E lifted up my ’ead, An’ he plugged me where I bled, An’ ’e guv me ’arf-a-pint o’ water green. It was crawlin’ and it stunk, But of all the drinks I’ve drunk, I’m […]

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