Category Archives: East Village

December 5 1978 – East Village – Journal

February 15, 2024 – 1:18 pm

Last night Alice opted to stay at her girlfriend’s Chinatown loft to work on the Vaudeville Show without calling me. This morning I woke to an empty bed. The show’s importance outweighed any consideration and I suspect our romance has come to an end. Sean Hausman called to work for clearing an East 11th Street […]

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January 9, 1979 – East Village – Journal

February 13, 2024 – 3:40 pm

This afternoon I ran into Dale on First Avenue. The slim divorcee stripper drags me over to her place on St. Marks, where we indulged in raw sex. I tied her to a door and whip her with a belt, until her ass was raw. On her knees she sucked my cock and I blasted […]

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January 7, 1979 – East Village – Journal

February 13, 2024 – 11:56 am

Rain falls on the grimy snow piling up in the alley behind 256 East 10th Street. New York has declared a snow day. I love snow days. I blankly watch the James Bond movie on our black and white TV. The plot of YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE lazily saunters between fucking and killing tangents with […]

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Snow Day In New York

January 18, 2024 – 5:37 pm

Winter used to be the season of cold. In 1978 a blizzard dropped three feet of snow on the Northeast. The suburbs were cut off from the cities by ten-foot drifts on the highways. I lived in the East Village. At night I clomped through the yellowing slush to CBGBs. Army boots and a leather […]

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Fame On The F Train

January 10, 2024 – 11:10 am

Yesterday afternoon my long journey from Sriracha, Thailand ended with the 747’s touchdown at JFK in New York. I hadn’t slept much on the flight and jetlag threatened to seize my body and soul, as I unpacked my bag at my Fort Greene apartment. Sleep crowded my vision, but the writer Bruce Benderson was celebrating […]

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