Category Archives: Beast

Money Is Evil

January 12, 2016 – 7:51 am
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Poppers ReDux

February 5, 2015 – 8:24 pm

Jan. 2 1979 Suicide was headlining CBGBs. The duo weren’t for everyone, but the screaming fury of Alan Vega and monotonal drone of his keyboard player Martin Rev were an effective remedy for a long holiday of drinking, especially if the holidays were not ready to call it quits. My hillbilly girlfriend was in West […]

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Beauty or the Beast of Haiti

October 5, 2014 – 6:10 pm

Michèle Bennett was not a virgin at the altar with Baby Doc.. Still white was her wedding color. No one was allowed to say a word. But the Ton-Ton Macoute knew the truth. And no one dared doubt them. Michele took Jean-Claude for everything. Baron Samedi always gets paid by his whores.

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THE BIGGEST BEAR by Lynd Ward

August 21, 2014 – 5:20 pm

THE BIGGEST BEAR was published in 1952. The illustrated children’s book lovingly described the story of a young boy befriending an orphan bear in the Maine woods. Johnny Orchard’s bear grew to an epic size and ate everything in sight. Faced with the choice of killing his friend Johnny Orchard’s bear is saved by a […]

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Serge Gainsbourg and Whitney Houston 1986

January 23, 2013 – 6:20 am

Serge Gainsbourg was the coolest French musician of the last century. His hip stature reverberates to the present. THE BALLAD OF MELODY NELSON is a 27-minute long gem of a concept LP. His conquests of love were legion. His loves were few. Jane Birkin was his muse for 13 years. After their break-up the drink […]

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