I don't want it to be this way.

I don't want to have anything to do w these horrible women.

I am an intellectual and I just want to write.

The women here are horrible- they want to destroy men.

There are many violent men here who are homos and don't realize it and are… Read full post »

is called a carbro.

I have been collecting them since I was 12 years old, as my art director father hipped me to them.

They were only made for reproduction and it took 10 hours minimum to make one. And very expensive. $100 1940 dollars = $1500+ per carbro. Therefore… Read full post »

The Spizzwinks were/are the elite quartet of the Wiffenpoofs, the Yale Glee Club.

The headmaster of the boys' school I attended had been the first freshman ever in Yale's history to become a Spizzwink. Like some college football stars, his life was arrested at that point. It was the high point… Read full post »

In the early 1980s I had a working Wurlitzer juke box in my living room- the first model to play 100 45s.
So I had 45s.
One time hanging out w friends it struck me to put "He's So Fine" by the Chiffons on a turntable and play it at 33rpm.… Read full post »

No offense please Ladies. Don't shoot the messenger. It's just an artifact. Not necessarily my opinion.

This joke was going around when I was in 7th grade 1958-59.  It was quite popular- but we had no idea what it meant.

 A French guy was  walking on the beach in France.… Read full post »

It was 1963 or 4 and I was staying at a friend's apartment in NY.

In the NYT I read that the Fanny Hill obscenity trial was underway downtown.

I went in and sat down. The audience was pretty sparse. One of the prosecutors noticed me.

 "Your Honor, there's… Read full post »

My friend's father was 90 and his mother was 88.

It was time for them to give up their apartment and go into an assisted living facility. They looked at several. I knew them well so I went too. 

Because his father showed the early signs of  alzheimer's, at one… Read full post »

One ice cream cart here in the hood plays "Fur Elise" when they come around every day about 4- serious, in a Mexican neighborhood. The other one plays the Zelda song. That might get a lotta 30 somethings goin' Manchurian candidate. Half of Santa Monica walking out… Read full post »

As I've just joined FB very recently under my real name, I see that some of my friends think I'm a "late adopter." Wouldn't want that LOL.
Actually I've been on Facebook almost since it went public in late 2006- I joined in early 2007 with one of the names under which… Read full post »

Well shocking to me anyway.

I am unable to find a definitive estimate of how many of the 500+ million active FB users are primarily English speakers- estimates range from 205 million to 400+ million.

But I am shocked to see that I am the only one… Read full post »

I could speak ancient Latin fluently at one time.

I flunked French II as a freshman in college automatically after two weeks of cuts- oversleeping the 8:00 AM/5 day/wk class.

 Villify me if you like, but I had been in a boys' boarding school in the remote Berkshire foothills… Read full post »

I was a susbtitute teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, seeking a full time position.

I had an interview at Fairfax High School in Hollywood. 

I walked in the room and sitting around a long table were twelve people to interview me. Twelve.

The Assistant Principal said good morning… Read full post »

I am being evicted for saying Obama is a traitor and criminal and is "Wall Street's Trojan Horse."

Well I've only voted Nader and Socialist Workers Party. But I think it's kinda unfair as I've lived here for eight years without heat and it was my understanding that it was… Read full post »

 This morning it's "...but it may also rank… Read full post »

Berkshire foothills, Western Massachusetts, 1962.

In the high school dorm there was just a row of shower heads in the wall, as in the gym, as in the army- open space, no dividers. We lived there. 

A bunch of us were taking a shower. There was a new kid, and… Read full post »

Fresh out of college in 1968 I was writing "bodice ripper" novels for $500 each.
Delivering one at the office I was introduced to one their "associates," who asked me if I could write porn. I had never thought about it, but for $1000 I sure would.
I wrote it in six weeks.… Read full post »

When we shared a house as college students he and his GF were real dirty. I had to clean his pans and plates every morning just to get to the bottom of the sink- every day- they were pigs.

Hey Wolfy- that's what we called him.

This is true- sue me… Read full post »

 I went to Burning Man in 2007.

There was the "Barbie Death Camp" with hundreds of bedraggled Barbies standing close together in rags, enclosed by "barb" wire.

I went up to the guy and said, "I have a dog-chewed Barbie." Which I do.

He said, "Ooooh. Could… Read full post »

1978, Providence RI.
Those of you who know the area know the club- Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel. It's a famous music club going back to 1976 with live music 365 and countless big acts from Joe Turner,  Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison to Robert Palmer, The Ramones and Shawn Colvin.
The… Read full post »

Women Seeking Men

I met her on Craigslist
bathetic true tale
and I'll give you the gist
of my date from hell

We were gonna watch movies
I went to her place
hood crawled with juvies
and all our hearts raced

Gold records in frames
I was quite seduced
"You won't recognize them-
disco I produced"

B/… Read full post »

That's just the working title of course.
I'm fascinated with the precious little clubs that constitute the comments to articles on Internet sites like Salon.
Same people day in and day out trading stylized insults, all with noms de guerre. Some regulars accused of using multiple pseudonyms are… Read full post »