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Writing THE END For ALMOST A DEAD MAN

April 7, 2025 – 10:09 am

Yesterday I typed THE END to ALMOST A DEAD MAN. 348 pages. Then spell check. Only seven typos Then I hit search for God. Only seventeen times. No bad for an atheist. I first wrote it in Ireland in 1997. I showed it to Shannon who read it in a single night. I sent the […]

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Opening paragraphs of ALMOST A DEAD MAN

March 20, 2025 – 12:17 pm

Hamburg 1982 The scurry of claws across the filthy floor startled the woman on the battered chair and she lifted her black stiletto heels in horror. Rats were the least of her problems. Over the phone her lover had suggested a nocturnal rendezvous on Kaiserkai. No one came to Hamburg’s harbor at night. The woman […]

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Nacht Und Nebel 2011

March 1, 2025 – 9:24 am

In the summer of 1982 Count-No-Count phoned my East Village apartment. Kurt was offering a job as ‘tursteher’ at his nightclub BSIR in Hamburg. The pay for a doorman was $150 a night, free accommodations, and all I could drink. Being dead-broke and wanted for questioning by the NYPD Internal Affairs for payment to the […]

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American Friend – 1976 – Wim Wenders

February 5, 2025 – 11:15 am

Last night I watched Wim Wenders AMERICAN FRIEND 1976. I hadn’t seen it in almost a half- century. Six years later as a semi -fugitive from New York I ended up there working at. nightclub BSIRs. Back then the DJ Henri Flesh and I roamed the city looking for the film’s locations. I’m presently rewriting […]

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Almost A Dead Man – Chapter 1

January 14, 2025 – 1:07 pm

ONE The damp scurry of claws across the floor startled the woman on the battered chair and she lifted her black stiletto heels in horror. Rats were the least of her problems. Over the phone her lover had suggested a nocturnal rendezvous in Hamburg’s harbor district. The woman had expected rough sex. Instead two men […]

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