Tag Archives: 1978

Walk Like A Woman

April 7, 2025 – 11:07 am

WALK LIKE A WOMAN By Peter Nolan Smith Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned. Sylvia Rivera MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2023 Billy Wilder’s SOME LIKE IT HOT was a funny movie about two musicians hiding from the Mob in an all-women band and I didn’t think much about men dressing as woman, until my […]

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Nameless Hippie Girl

January 25, 2025 – 11:51 am

This photo symbolized the free-wheeling hippie era. I had long mistakenly supposed the young topless woman so enthralled with the music was at Woodstock, but today I discovered thanks to 2011 Daily Mail report that the flower child had a name. Jennifer Wilson. Her photo had been taken at a music festival in 1978 shortly […]

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Flying Phone 1979

January 16, 2025 – 1:18 pm

Two days ago I had visited Professor Bertell Ollman at Bellevue. He was lively. Happy too. It was good to get out of the house. He remains a swalwart comrade true to the revolution. I left and headed over to catch the M15 downtown. It was fezzing. I had good winter gear. I hadn’t been […]

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Journal Entry – January 1, 1978

January 1, 2025 – 4:44 am

Death to 1977 Onto a year of 78 RPM. It’s snowing and I’m watching the Broncos beat the Raiders. 20-17. Last night at 27th Street was weird. I hit on Alta. We made up and dry-humped in a dark corner. THe stripper begged off fucking. I accepted her no, got drunk, puked outside, and sobered […]

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Rain on East 77 Street – June 1978

July 5, 2024 – 8:32 pm

Midnight Outside Rain Thunder. Inside the foyer My finger On the buzzer No reply____ Last winter Lisa left To be a model In Europe No letters Since April___ Her face Never on French Vogue Nor Italian Vogue Nor inside any fashion magazine. Gone___ Inside the hallway No one My finger on the buzzer A last […]

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