Category Archives: New England

July 20, 1978 – Provincetown – Journal Entry

July 16, 2023 – 2:35 pm

Provincetown is packed with cruising homos and hippies retired from the world. P-Town is the end of the world. Thankfully beyond the end of US6 and a ferry ride away from Boston. Ann suffers from motion sickness after a morning session of sit-ups and yoga. I feel free her, fresh sea air, a morning fuck, […]

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Best Meal Of All

May 19, 2023 – 12:05 pm

Next week my younger sister and her husband are leaving for a holiday in Northern Italy. I am so envious, as I have been confined to New York City for the past year, due to a long illness. My body has been steadily healing after a major operation over Yulemas, but the doctors have strongly […]

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-40 – Wildcat – 1971

March 5, 2023 – 1:01 pm
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THE LITTLEST BEAR

February 4, 2023 – 9:11 am

Vernon fished the Casco Bay from Peakes Island. The other day-fishers know his boat. A 1985 Seaway 22-footer ran the Drunken Ledge, the Cod Ledges, Big Ridge, and the Tanta’s ‘punkin bottom’ for pollock and cod in the winter. All in sight of the Ram’s Head Light station. Vernon was 56. Fishing was all he […]

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IN DA GADDA VIDA ON SNOW

January 23, 2023 – 8:32 am

In winter of 1969 I went skiing in North Conway with a bunch of townies from the CYO. We hit Wildcat hard. The coolest girl and I listened to IN DA GADDA VIDA in my bedroom. Her name was Susan. She smoked weed. I was straight. At the end of the song she said, “I […]

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