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JOURNAL ENTRY – DECEMBER 28, 1978 – EAST VILLAGE

December 28, 2024 – 6:05 am

This evening I arrived at Hurrah and my friends and fiends from the security staff greeted me back to work; Anthony, the junkie, Grant Stitt, Jim Fouratt, Ideles and a score of acquaintances. Everyone was in the holiday mood. Less so me. Alice was still in West Virginia. Not everyone was my friend and an […]

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Journal Entry – Poetry – November 11, 1978 – East Village

November 10, 2024 – 3:52 pm

Kenya, the River Platte, Flanders Vienna, Istanbul, Berlin Versus Moscow, London, and Paris 1914 to 1918 An assassination in Sarajevo to the Treaty of Versailles World War I Machine guns, trenches, blood Airplanes, Zeppelins, blood Gas, barbed wire, blood Death in a thousand fields Verdun Gallipoli Tannenburg Emperors’ armies Nations’ will Men’s blood Victory and […]

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November 3, 1978 – East Village – Journal Entry

November 3, 2024 – 12:25 pm

Last night at THE NEW WAVE VAUDEVILLE SHOW at Irving Plaza was a great success, but a debacle for me. Klaus Nomi was the headliner along with a horde of starry-eyed rockers and artists. I was asked to be the security with my friends. None of us were paid, but we guaranteed free drinks . […]

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THE DUKE OF ROCK by Peter Nolan Smith

September 18, 2024 – 1:07 am

2012 Back in the 80s and 90s Tompkins Square Park in the East Village had several basketball courts. Full-court games were played next to the handball courts closest to Avenue B and East 10th Street. Half-court games was located against the fences of the asphalt baseball field on Avenue A. Players were split between neighborhood […]

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

September 2, 2024 – 6:47 pm

Flowers are exploding all across the East Village community gardens. The temperature is in the 90s. The air in our apartment has no oxygen. The streets only have a little more. Alice and I have lived together for the last month. I haven’t worked a day. Alice is heading home to West Virginia for Labor […]

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