Category Archives: RIP

Yves St. Laurent RIP

June 2, 2008 – 6:44 pm

In the winter of 1985 my teenage French girlfriend left the apartment on Impasse Dantzig to meet with her modeling client. Her destination a 5-star hotel on the Rue de Rivoli was a marked counterpoint to our 15th arrondisement atelier. Candia was 17. Her rendezvous was with an Italian. I figured she would stay the […]

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EVEL KNIEVEL RIP

March 23, 2008 – 11:27 pm

What can I say about Evel? In 1956 he was fired from the Anaconda Mining Company for executing a wheelie in a earth-mover, which struck a power line and thus plunged Butte, Montana into a seven hour black-out.

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1979: Sid Vicious dies from drugs overdose

February 1, 2008 – 11:59 pm

28 years ago Sid Vicious ODed in a West Village Apartment. The bass player was out on $50,000 bail on the charge of stabbing his girlfiend to death in the Chelsea Hotel. Any Sex Pistols’ fan having watched SID AND NANCY would have voted for an acquittal. “I killed her…I can’t live without her. She must have […]

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#3 hits the dust RIP – Suharto at 87

January 29, 2008 – 4:07 am

During my 1973 summer tenure at the St. John of God Hospital overlooking Boston, my head porter’s observation about our guests clocking out in threes was proven time after time and continues to ring true as this week the first two deceased, Heath Ledger, Hollywood star, and Christian Brando, Marlon’s son, were rounded out by the demise […]

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They Go in Threes #2

January 27, 2008 – 3:25 am

I worked at St. John of the Heavens Hospital the summer of 1973. Marilynn was working there. She went to Boston College. So did I. She was a candy striper. Orderlies earn five cents an hour than janitors. I call myself a ‘porter’. My first day I learned St. John’s was a waiting room for […]

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