Category Archives: RIP

Dash Snow RIP

July 14, 2009 – 10:31 pm

Dash Snow a young New York artist passed away thanks at a Hotel in Lower Manhattan. He joins the ranks of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jimi Hendrix, and thousands other lesser known heroin users who miscalculated that last shot. Addicts throughout New York sought out the fatal brand for its strength. They would be smarter in this […]

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Bye Bye Michael

July 8, 2009 – 12:56 am

Michael Jackson has been laid to rest. The world is divided in different camps. Admirers, detractors, and the apathetic. I had planted myself in the latter camp. I have no Michael Jackson songs on my computer. I never saw him in concert. I didn’t follow his tribulations with interest. He went his way and I […]

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Rest in peace, Shi Pei Pu

July 7, 2009 – 3:00 am

I could probably be tossed out of the business for telling you this — it violates every journalistic principle in the book — but once, long ago, in the course of my work as a reporter, an international man of mystery pressed upon me a gift of rare jewels, and to my shame, I accepted. […]

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Goodbye Farrah

July 1, 2009 – 7:41 pm

Farrah Fawcett serves as the archetypal blonde goddess for millions of American men through the 70s. Her famed poster graced bedroom walls in every state on the union, except for mine. I was never a CHARLIE’S ANGELS fan. Kate Jackson wasn’t my second choice after Farrah, because I wanted none of the ‘Angels’. The entire […]

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The Reach of Jocko

June 30, 2009 – 7:25 pm

Michael Jackson left Neverland DOA. Millions of THRILLER fans around the globe mourned his passing with flowers deposited before US embassies. My younger friends in New York reported that on the night of his death club-goers danced to a frenzied and endless cascade of Michael Jackson hits from the Motown years on into the 21st […]

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