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The Longevity of Women

February 9, 2011 – 8:58 pm

My late Uncle Carmine theorized that the longevity of women was due to the fact that men wait for women and every minute and hour stolen from a man was stored within a genetic code of a woman’s body. In America that advantage of life over death amounted to more than five years and I […]

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Brigitte Bardot is Old

February 1, 2011 – 7:34 am

I’ve been back in New York two days after 5 years in Thailand. Culture shock has been minimalized by my refusal to leave Andrew Pollack’s $3 million Ft. Greene brownstone, however on Tuesday I rendezvoused with my biographer to recount the circumstances of my exile from the Land of Smiles. “Come meet me at Lucien’s […]

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The Long Reach of the Law

November 23, 2010 – 2:03 am

Back in the 80s Brion Gysin was living his last days in Paris. I was working at the Bains-Douches. I fought a lot at the door. Brion liked rough trade. We were associated through a mutual friend, Jeffery Kime. Dinners, drinks, parties. The collage artist/poet was a gentleman in pursuit of the frontiers of humor. […]

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Beauty Beyond the Ages

April 21, 2010 – 9:01 pm

Guy Bourdin was a genius. He photographed my roommate Bridget Yorke This almost looks like her She was never a lesbian. For a related article click on this URL https://www.mangozeen.com/2010/03/17/fiction/queen-of-the-plaza-by-peter-nolan-smith.htm

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Tristam Dequatremare – French Painter

April 22, 2009 – 9:26 pm

The more and more I see of Tristam Dequatremare. The more and more I like him. I have a painting of his in LA. With my Cousin Sherri. I doubt her husband will give it back. Art is like that unless it was taken by the Nazis.

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