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Re: 9/11/01 - The village signpost - please check in here
Keep in mind, if the person you are seeking lives below 14th Street, and doesn't have valid ID with that address on it, they haven't been able to get back to their homes and computers. They may be staying with friends or at a shelter. Some residences to the East of what was the WTC were evacuated, and the residents have not been permitted to return. In addition, a great many homes downtown are without power and/or phone service which means no computers or dial-up modems... All of these may...
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Re: Caribbean
I spent a short time on Grand Cayman Island and found the locals Really nice and helpful. I lost my passport and wallet in a taxi and some really great caymanite called all of the taxis on the island to my spot and had them all check their back seats. My wallet was there and I was greatful. T
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
Oh Satori, I am glad you are contributing to the project. I just tend to see red when some one I don't even know tries to borrow things I have horded over the years and then receives "Costume Designer" credit. Maybe I am just paranoid. Not that I have a single lunchbox :-) And I am looking forward to meeting you on your visit. I can remember when Angel had vanished and the rumors were flying. The NYPD was desperately trying to produce a body so they would have a case (after all, that's one...
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Re: BURNING MAN
Rob, just enjoy the ride. But always remember those words I spoke to you that summer out on Fire Island...."I LOVE DRUGS!"
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Re: Mondo Internet (Part 2)
Yikes, check out The Long Island StayLace Association Corset Site . This site is way too cool. It is devoted totally to corsets. Pay particular attention to Corset Gallery #16 Men In Corsets and Corset Gallery #21 Corsets In The Transgender Community (Feminine Illusions) Hold yer breath and tighten up, This whole site ROCKS! [This message was edited by Joel on 08-31-02 at 07:15 PM.]
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
Hatches -- It was impressive to meet you, such a stately figure of consequence with a wise, yet subdued kindness. I hope you like the Jackie 60 Fashion Forward shwag, I apologize for the interruption in your stage performance last night (that was not my doing, ahem, Daddy - I much prefer being on the dance floor!) ------------- As I continue to delve into NYC in the 80s, I find more and more information about DWs work and the artists he collaborated with. Just when I thought I had a...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
Lestat, Louis, all ofthe Paris coven and of course for marius to fly me away to his island lair and nusre me back to health in his caring loving arms.
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Re: RIP, VIP
In Loving Tribute To Lt. Cmdr. Teresa Ellison 1971-2002 of the U.S.S. Northstar, N.C.C.- 10462 Whenever something happens to one of our own, we feel sympathy. Rarely do we realize until they are no longer with us, just how much of an impact, a single being can have on our ives....... Lieutenant Commander Teresa Ellison was a very special individual. She had a beautiful heart. A very humble and proud New Yorker with lots of attitude. She was truly a Diva with a conscience. Teresa was an...
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
Koh Samui ('koh" means island) is a large somewhat developed island. Certain areas have flashy hotels, but where I'm staying it's still somewhat lazy and cozy. I'm not actually sleeping at the place where I'm doing my cleansing fast, they were full. I'm right across the road. In the past when staying at Thai beaches I'd rented a cute little bungalow, like the one in the picture I posted. This time, I have a really big one, about 3-4 times the size. This one even has hot water and a...
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
I don't know why I never bothered to before, but I finally bought a small knife so that I can buy fruit. If you only eat what is served ready-to-eat there are a whole range of interesting fruits you'd never eat. I had to go on the web to find out what some of them were. Like the Sapodilla . It tasted very sweet, as if it had been steeped in honey. I don't think I ever tased anything like it. Rambutans are similar to lychees. Pomelos are like mutant grapefruits (it's probably the other way,...
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Re: Nightclub Disasters
Interesting. The loss of life in both instances was TERRIBLE. We watched the Long Island nightclub fire story on the TV outside last night at Webster Hall when the news was on. Here in NYC I remember the Happyland incident of years ago too, and how that marked the beginning of the "crackdown" era in some respects. And the Chicago matter -- the idea of actually being trampled to death is really horrifying. An additional sad result of these tragedies (albeit less important than the loss of...
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Re: Nightclub Disasters
The band Great White's performance rider contains no mention whatsoever of pyrotechnics being used during the rock group's current tour of clubs and small theaters, The Smoking Gun has learned. TSG today (2/21) obtained copies of the band's rider from two separate promoters who booked shows by the group during the past month. A copy of the Great White performance specs can be found below. A third promoter, Domenic Santana, told TSG that the band set off a pyrotechnic display without his...
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
And Indian! With you tan - you remind me of an Indian (Eastern) Med student! How will you deal with the island "withdrawl" when you get home? GiGi
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
Well, summer is ending, and school is back in session. Thanks to the encroaching sprawl of NYU all over town, we all have witness to the invasion of these spotted cherubic youths, and yes there is even a dorm for them down here in Tribeca, so I see them on the street, in the deli buying beer, and waiting for the NYU bus to take them up to the "campus." What saddens me is I think about when I first visited NYC 20 years ago and how glorious (and dirty) the city was, and then the nightclubs...
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
Erasing Charas/El Bohio is one of the most overt racist acts by the city in recent years, regarding real estate. No one in the current administration probably is old enough to even remember that E. 9th Street was totally burnt out, a no man's land in the 1970's. It was the people behind El Bohio along with other homesteaders who actually took over the block and began to redevelop it. And it was Charas' commitment to keeping the building as a community center without big money backing that...
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Re: DV by Diana Vreeland
Coco's Main Ingredients: French angelica, Bulgarian Rose, Spice Island clove bud, Indian jasmine, Caribbean cascarida, Frangipani, Mimosa. NO CIVET CAT GLANDS! You can look at the "Allure" book at the "Egoiste" magazine store down in Soho... they used to have a copy for public worship. They also have an unbound folio edition of dozens of Diana Vreeland's original "Vogue" memos, all in typewritten facsimile. (Tres tres cher.) Eveytime I see someone's dirty shoe-bottoms on a TV talk show I...
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Re: ORANGE ALERT for New York City
Careful, those currents are mighty tricky, both off the Battery and up above Inwood. Probably too tricky for swimming. You hear it all the time when bodies and other things are dumped in the river-- they wind up in odd places like Hellgate or Little Brothers Island. I have my eye, however, on those kyacks bobbing away below N. Moore Street. Anyone want to join me? There's also the old freight railroad trestle at the point where the Harlem and Hudson meet. You can enter through Inwood Park in...
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Re: ORANGE ALERT for New York City
This paranoia is my paranoia This paranoia is your paranoia From Manhattan Island To the Gulf Stream Waters This paranoia was made for you and meeeeeeee!
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)
I was always intrigued with his fey Fletcher Christian. And of course his demonic stint in Apocalypse. Even more bizarre was a very late career bit in a re-re-make of The Island of Dr. Moreau -I think I have the title slightly wrong. But he played the title role- a mad scientist with a strange affliction caused by his own experiments- all 300lbs of Brando costumed in a lot of drappery, with a big floppy hat and a veil, his visible flesh made to look very ashy. Really creepy/pathetic. No...
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Re: Provincetown
Bobby! Crazy weather...global warming, you think?? Pretty soon Manhattan will be a tropical island! Can you imagine. But I'm writing to tell you that as I was weeding through stuff I found a postcard invite for a show you had many eons ago. It was the postcard invite for a show of photographs taken in Sudio 54. The invite photo had Olivia Newton John and Elton John. I then proceeded to tack it onto my fridge. Just wanted to let you know that. Missing you and Happy Holidays. Love XXOXOXOXXX, ...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
And this from Musto: (FYI the "worst club" is our favorite, CAIN) Musto Rules!
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Re: Pets in the City
I live in Hells Kitchen and the dog run closest to my home is in a park on 11th ave and 52nd street. My little boy (Jasper) was unfortunately attacked by a 7 year old pit bull towards the end of last summer and has never bounced back from the incident, and is absolutely terrified of other dogs. I would love to socialize him more with other puppies. The trauma he experienced however leaves him still trembling after nearly 8 months each time I take him to the park. He sufferd punctures in his...
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Re: Wildlife In New York City
I liked this lonely little thread, so I had to post to keep it company. I read an article in the New York Press (that is right wing leaning paper, isn't it? I read with a hearty dose of skeptism so I am not accidentally brain washed by subliminals like in those Bush ads with the "rats" thing)that there is a bigfoot that forages at Fresh Kills on Staten Island and is called Trashsquatch. On a more mundane note: My landlord In Brooklyn set out poison to kill the rats, but it unfortunately...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Was the Park Miller where someone threw the SLEAZE PARTY, in the mid 70's? Merlin came to town as a Member of the Everyman Players. We were doing John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, in medeival ensemble style, at the Rockafella Church on 125th Street and Riverside Drive. It was the first such performance in the main naive of the sanctuary. While staying at the Picadilli Hotel on West 44th Street and fresh to the city, Merlin enjoyed the great location. Just up the block to Jack Demsi's where...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
ok, you got most of it correct the only detail I really love is the fact that it was around the holidays and the theme that night was some kind of "hooked on christmas" or "island of demonic toys" , whatever , but the greatest thing was that Alexis had a blinking christmas bulb hanging from his neck the entire time and because the surveilance camera I had was a light sesitive/Infra-red kind it created the most insane effect as he was blowing the guy, sort of a strobe backlite on the big fat...
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Re: Grey Gardens
This from playbill.com ( http://www.playbill.com/news/article/93278.html ) Playwrights Horizons Will Stage Musical Grey Gardens, With Two Broadway Divas Among the Ruins By Kenneth Jones 02 Jun 2005 Tony winner Christine Ebersole will star in Grey Gardens photo by Aubrey Reuben Grey Gardens: A New Musical, by librettist Doug Wright, composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie, will be one of four world premieres in the 2005-06 season of Playwrights Horizons, the Off-Broadway company...
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
It's true. Hattie was just the messenger (the only one still sober enough to dial a phone at 2 in the afternoon). And it's also true, I would probably still be there playing the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack if Hattie hadn't fired me. (But not at "1984" thank you very much!) You see, I was into this "Disco as Retro" thing, I LOVED Disco. The tackier the better. I used to wear these stretch Jordache jeans and blow my hair out like Denny Tario (He was the star of this TV show called "Dance...
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Re: Hattie Hathaway in Threepenny Opera
I hope this show runs forever. Or at least until all the awards organizations are depleted by Cyndi Lauper. I want to see Hatches retire to Fire Island or at least Sutton Place. And thanks for the Holland Tunnel tip, the only drawback is the tire marks over my Nikes and the two cops at the mouth of the tunnel asking for 'favors'.
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Re: Greece & Turkey: Athens, Istanbul, Mykonos, et al
I can see now why I've never heard people rave about Athens the way they do about Rome, Paris, Berlin, London or New York. When you take away the ancient ruins and a few old neighborhoods near the Acropolis, you are left with largely an ugly city composed of plain and ugly box-like buildings. Lots and lots of them. I couldn't even date them with a specific era, there were just so many dingy white, beige and off-white buildings with no character whatsoever that I couldn't keep track. I've...
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Re: Greece & Turkey: Athens, Istanbul, Mykonos, et al
Greetings from scenic Mykonos, where we are spending one evening. I would have posted sooner but internet access aboard the Perla is too outrageously expensive even for my extravagent tastes. So I waited until we got into port here before writing another entry. It is not peak season yet so the scene has not really picked up yet here in the 'little Venice' section of Mykonos. Still, the white and blue adobe houses are gorge and the bay is quite lovely. This is an island I'd be interested in...
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Re: Greece & Turkey: Athens, Istanbul, Mykonos, et al
The last island we visited on the cruise was Santorini. In a way it's great that this destination was saved for last on the itinerary because the views are so spectacular and panoramic. The town is built into the side of a cliff of volcanic rock. The Perla was too big to pull up right into the bay, so we had to disembark by boat slip, just like in Patmos. I love that ... it feels like such an adventure. Once at the shore we took these speeding cable cars up to the top which was kind of...
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Re: Greece & Turkey: Athens, Istanbul, Mykonos, et al
One of the best things about the trip was the cruise itself and the funny, sometimes odd cast of characters whose paths we crossed. The passenger list was international, but many were retired couples and widows from middle America. I'm embarrassed to admit I had to restrain myself from labeling people Bush supporters based on their regional dialects, hairstyles and fashion choices. (Even if they did vote for her, I give them credit for being open-minded enough to travel overseas at all --...
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Re: Queers are the Blacks of the 1950's!!! Anti-Gay is on the RISE!!
Sweetie your tales of recent woes are alarming and disheartening to say the least. Let's face it, a big reason why people like us choose to settle on this godforsaken island is to live free of the bigotry the rest of our imperialist nation brews. It's sad to think that the conservative McCarthyist movement spread by the Bush administration has actually begun to taint our concrete haven. While I do believe the tide has impercetibly begun to turn against the Bushies at the national level, it's...
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Re: NOTS 16 - STEVIE IN WONDERLAND - May 19, 2006
I really agree that another fabulous part of this event is that it is such a great my wonderland family reunion I've just confirmed that more MB or C & D gangs like Bridget and Caren (and... Darla Diamond!!! )are coming as well, so we can have... Alice's crazy (Long Island) tea party!
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Re: But Darling I WAS a punk.
Reggae (the deep dub stuff) was VERY influential back then. It was the first thing that brought the worlds of "Disco/Club" and "Punk/Rock" together. For example... I came out of the whole Downtown, CBGB, Punk, No Wave, Art Rock thing. But I used to go to Discos like The Paradise Garage etc. and these were always two totally different worlds. UNTIL Dub Reggae. I was DJing at Danceteria by then and for the first time the 2 worlds came together musically. The sound was deep, dark, druggy &...