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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
Whew! I've certainly had politics on the brain today. Anyhoo, here's the latest updates in the gay marriage struggle:
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
...I will vote for Bush!, after all, did not do it so bad.....only did not -sign the kyoto treaty, originally promoted by clinton. -illegal wars (irak, afganistan) -the spy plane in china, -the selling or equipment to taiwan, while they were not far from the reunification, -perforation of alaska, -support to israel no matter what they do (never the situation is been worse in the middle east), -confrontation with (what this administration calls the new europe, it seems now that france and...
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
Aside from how much we hate this farce, isn't anyone in the City government concerned about the security issues? A Convention in the hot month of September... (no doubt they will trumpet their 'triumph' over 9/11 to death)... in a City with overtaxed resources ... Would this not be a 'perfect moment' for the terrorists to go all-out and try to take out Bush and his cronies? I kind of can't believe it is being allowed. It is massive hubris at the expense of all the folk who live here.
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
Aside from the real possibility of bodily harm to innocent citizens from some type of violence aimed at the Fasci- uh, I mean, Republican Party party, the totally inevitable consequence will be how much it will cost taxpayers for extra overtime from cops, sanitation and the wear and tear on the infrastructure. The Little Bushies want to throw their party here but it really means they want to drop their empties, paper plates, cigar butts, condoms and confetti all over downtown while...
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Re: The Cincinnati Connection
Friday, March 19, 6 to 9 p.m. CAC members or purchase of a Fringe Festival Pass admission free; all others $8. The Contemporary Arts Center kicks off the Cincinnati Fringe Festival two months early with a live dj, the Late Circuit Spinning hours of suspense-filled grooves, Downtempo/Trip-Hop/Hip-Hop/BrokenBeat, providing the music and improvisational movers providing the visuals. Be the first on your block to purchase a pass to the Festival, the exciting, non-stop festival of theater and...
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
Wishful thinking, hon. My gut feeling is the GOP infestation will proceed as planned come hell or high water. At this point they've placed their bet on NYC and backing out now would look worse than not backing out, no matter what the 9/11 commission says. Start storing the pig's blood and rotten cabbage heads anyway.
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
I often would get a cab back from my office nr Bryant Park back to 14th and 2nd Av... used to be around $6-7... now its $9 without a tip!!
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Re: Puritan Watch
Dr LAURA ... what a puritan... This was e-mailed to me, thought it was cute.. Laura Schlessinger is a US radio personality, > who dispenses advice to people who call in to her Radio show. On her > radio show recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, > homosexuality is an abomination, according to Leviticus 18:22, and > cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following response is an > open letter to Dr. Laura, penned by a US resident, which was posted >...
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Re: My Night of 1000 Stevies 14 review
Oh Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, Nightclubs... (that's where you were sweetie, in a nightclub) open say at 9 or 10 PM. They close at about 4 or 5 AM. Most of the hot action happens aound midnight. The REALLY hot action happens after 1 or 2. The REALLY REALY HOT action happens about 5 or 6 AM. After that its MANHUNT . You may have been born in New York but you obviously have been hanging out in Danbury too long. Next time go with Messy Bonnie Raitt and leave Mom at home. She'll show you a good time.
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Re: ORANGE ALERT for New York City
NYC has been on Orange alert since 9/11/01. I doubt the terrorists would strike the GOP convention here because Bush's policies have actually strenthened the terrorist networks. If anything they would strike the Dems in Boston as Dems (Clinton Administration) had made fighting terrorism a high priority. They actually stopped a number of attacks including the "Millenium Plot." The whole validity of this current terror alert has been called into question and has caused embarrassment in the...
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Re: ORANGE ALERT for New York City
Lets face it... for anyone who remembers the days after 9-11 here in NYC.. they sealed off ALL bridges and tunnels and we were all just 'sitting targets' here in Manhattan. I think - like EVERYTHING - in this country ... the media like to whip everyone up into a frenzy and its SO easy to get caught up in this particular issue .. while we as Manhattanites laughed off the Janet Jackson tit media madness, or the Sniper killer shooter fears of the south... this particular frenzy triggers our...
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Re: ORANGE ALERT for New York City
On the one hand, I think these alerts we've living under since 9/11 are kind of bogus. I mean every one of them have the same lines. That being " we think there is going to be an attack based on the amount of chatter. We don't know where, when, or any other specific details but we think there is a chance of an attack based on the intelegence." Well of course there could be an attack. It'obvious to me that they are just covering their ass. They always issue these warning around the time of...
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Re: Puritan Watch
It Was the Porn That Made Them Do It http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/arts/30RICH.html?ex=1086940326&ei=1&en=328eae959a71a1ef "...Some of our self-appointed moral leaders are defending the morally indefensible by annexing Abu Ghraib as another front in America's election-year culture war. Charles Colson, the Watergate felon turned celebrity preacher, told a group of pastors convened by the Family Research Council that the prison guards had been corrupted by 'a steady diet of MTV and...
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Re: Puritan Watch
Par for the course... And I think we owe them a very deviant reception. Whaddaya say to resurrecting the BROWN PARTY??? And I wonder, who pays for these Broadway show tickets anyway? June 8, 2004 Broadway's Best Shows Too Risque for Republicans By REUTERS Filed at 9:43 a.m. ET NEW YORK - Gay puppets, transvestites, assassins and a pedophile child killer piled up Tony honors on Sunday but those shows will be shunned by Republican delegates at the political party's convention in New York this...
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Re: Swept Away part 2
Madonna Has Changed Her Name!!! Just came across this on the internet. Madonna has changed her name from Madonna to Esther. OMG, talk about making a giant cultural leap.. Isn't ANYTHING sacred anymore?? Yikes, all this name-changing going on has me thinking seriously about changing the name of my penis!!! Anyway, here's the news piece published today in the Houston Chronicle June 17, 2004, 9:41AM For `Esther,' `Madonna' is immaterial ANDREW GUY JR. Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Madonna...
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
No, seven, I never saw your post til now, and I am fed up with this hee-haw-snicker-snicker attitude that Republicans will actually walk out onto the sidewalks of Manhattan, to visit restaurants, movies, plays or any form of sex worker! Everyone I know is staring into dead air. Everything is going to be called into their hotel rooms! (Or rather, smart sex-workers are already booked into the hotels!) No, no-one's dainty foot need touch the ground... Here in the 20-30s between 6th and 7th...
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
This just tonight -its gonna be a great week- Check this link for all the news- http://nyc.indymedia.org/
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
Thanks, Empress for that news link. I have noticed that, unlike on 9/11, the mainstream online media has been extremely slow in reporting on protests. I also have noticed that the straight media hasn't bothered to inform the public just what Critical Mass is. Critical Mass is a bike ride that occurs on the last Friday of the month, and happens throughout the country and the world, in many different cities. There are no leaders-- it's definitely an anarchistic thang and its intent is to bring...
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
I am happy to hear that wherever they are going this week, the Republicans are being heckled, harried and treated with scorn. Last night, a busload of Louisiana delegates was held up for quite some time in Herald Square by protesters who lay down in front of it. On Sunday, the new owners of the building across the street from my house put up this sign. It is visible along the entire length of Canal Street from the west, and is backlit at night as well. Everyone waiting in line for the...
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Re: Puritan Watch
This is a long two page article from the NYTIMES but it is spot on target regarding some aspects of the mass delusion being incubated by the Little Bush Idiocracy. And it took some backbone for Rich to write it. Curious as hell though that the Times put it in the Arts section and perhaps it is a little delusionally symptomatic that an article about censorship in the news is written about for a cultural context. The main point though, that the political administration in power proclaims that...
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Re: Provincetown
Oh, by the by... Casanova Beausoleil def wants to have his coming out party at "Captain Jacks" this summer. I hope you can put a nice recption committee together Bobby. Just off the top of my head I was thinking.... 1) Bobby Weatherby 2) Jingles and Tee Tee 3) That big fat nasty queen that insults people at his show (I forget his name). 4) Billy Rene 5) John Waters 6) Lynn & Lacey 7) All the boys & girls at Spiritus 8) You & Big Daddy of course 9) John Dowd 10) Varla Jean Merman...
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)
Aspen Times article: http://at.us.publicus.com/article/20050221/NEWS/102210014 Hunter Thompson dead Seminal gonzo journalist kills himself By Eben Harrell and Chad Abraham February 21, 2005 Hunter S. Thompson, legendary author, political commentator and "gonzo" journalist, died Sunday night after shooting himself in the head with a handgun at his home in Woody Creek. He was 67. Thompson's son, Juan, found his father's body in the kitchen around 6 p.m. By 6:30 p.m., Thompson's home at 1278...
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
Someone emailed this to me, so Not sure what rag its from. Interesting, no?
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Re: Puritan Watch
Found this over at datalounge.com , has anyone heard about this? "DO YOU ENJOY PORN? If so, you really should listen up... by: Magdalene Hello Everyone, As a few of you know, I own an adult-oriented (non-porn) website. The majority of my friends and business acquaintances work in the porn and/or BDSM industry. Right now, there's something BIG going down, and it's something you - as the general public - are not being made aware of. As of June 23rd - assuming the freespeech.org lawyers do not...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina personal update, news Thanks to everyone for their wishes, calls and email concerning Johnny and I, our family, friends and house in New Orleans. Thankfully, we were not in our beloved adopted city for this nightmare. My brother, who we originally thought was in the Superdome, made it to Shreveport with a last-minute ride and called Monday night after a 14 hour drive in the storm. Thanks for your beams and good wishes for him! We have no news on his house in the Marigny,...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen? 'Times-Picayune' Had Repeatedly Raised Federal Spending Issues By Will Bunch Published: August 30, 2005 9:00 PM ET PHILADELPHIA Even though Hurricane Katrina has moved well north of the city, the waters may still keep rising in New Orleans late on Tuesday. That's because Lake Pontchartrain continues to pour through a two-block-long break in the main levee, near the city's 17th Street Canal. With much of the Crescent City some 10 feet below sea...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
The Interdictor, 9/2/05 The Interdictor blog (Jade also links to it above) refers to above is genius, far better than cable news for REAL information live from Pydras St. It is the very best use that the Internet can have married with the stubborn spirit of true New Orleanians. These people haven't abandoned their city yet, and I won't either. The Mayor's radio interview last night was GORGEOUS - CNN, "Mayor to Feds - Get Off Your Asses" ...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
Additional Aid For NOLA Residents With Stranded Pets... Spread The Word: --- Friday, 9:50 p.m. The Louisiana SPCA, New Orleans' animal control agency, has begun rescuing pets from owners houses. Louisiana SPCA director Laura Maloney said shelter workers follow other agencies and crews through neighborhoods and rescue pets, some that are locked in houses. At the owners' request, "we break in," she said. Owners have to call or email the operation and give their name and address and information...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
and the accompanying article: BUSH GIVES 'CANE VICTIMS BIG HUG AND A VOW: 'WE WILL MAKE IT RIGHT' By DEBORAH ORIN September 3, 2005 -- President Bush yesterday hugged refugees from Hurricane Katrina as he got a firsthand look at the human tragedy left by the storm and vowed that New Orleans and other stricken Gulf Coast cities "will rise again." Bush, who rarely admits mistakes and has come under sharp attack for the government's handling of the crisis, said the first federal response in...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
The below is an update from the head of the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau. It is a city government agency, (virtually all US cities have a CVB) in charge of all tourism and business-tourism matters pertaining to the city. As such it coordinates and acts as a central clearing house for information and arrangements in an in-depth network of all hotel, convention, public transportation, restaurant, nightlife, cultural, religious and civic organizations, in both the for profit and...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
from the article, "Experts say it has been common practice in both Republican and Democratic administrations for policy makers to take lobbying jobs once they leave office, and many of the same companies seeking contracts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have already received billions of dollars for work in Iraq. "Halliburton alone has earned more than $9 billion. Pentagon audits released by Democrats in June showed $1.03 billion in "questioned" costs and $422 million in "unsupported" costs...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
i just went back to read some open letters from a friend of mine who has gone to help in the re-creation of new orleans. he's an amazing activist... passionate, energetic, true. just wanted to share his experiences with this community. they're very real. ************************************** hello all- I feel a pressing need to communicate something of the experience I am having here, even as I know I can only capture a glimpse of what it is to be here. I want to say something you have not...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
letter #2, dec. 14 ************************* hello all- I feel a pressing need to communicate something of the experience I am having here, even as I know I can only capture a glimpse of what it is to be here. I want to say something you have not heard, to offer some deep insight into the complexity of the situation here, but I don't even know where to begin. I am in a surreal and deeply inspiring hell- New Orleans is a post apocalyptic wonderland where utter devastation is everywhere and...
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Re: Pete Burns -- Part 2
Oh my... The Message Boards Are all lit up with topics like: 1. Do you think that Pete Burns looks like Annalise from Neighbours...(I'm a celebrity.) 2. HAHAHA Pete doesnt give a shite about anyone! 3. GO PETE GO!!!!! 4. PETES LEGS PUTING ME OFF MY SUPPER N LIPS 5. pete straight or gay? (Oh come on what are they thinking) 6. PETE reminds me of ... 7. Pete is wearing a real Gorilla fur coat 8. Pete would make an ace drag queen! 9. what is pete burns????? 10. Pete Burns to WIN! (huh?) XXXOOO ...
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Re: JT LeRoy
JT LeRUSE ! _____________________________________________ The Unmasking of JT Leroy: In Public, He's a She NYTIMES 1/8/06 By WARREN ST. JOHN Published: January 9, 2006 It has been one of the most bizarre literary mysteries in recent memory: Who, exactly, is the novelist JT Leroy? An answer, at long last, is taking shape. Mr. Leroy's tale was harrowing in its details and uplifting in its arc. He was a young truck-stop prostitute who had escaped rural West Virginia for the dismal life of a...
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Re: JT LeRoy
Some interesting discussion on the Hoax: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/45766 E.g. --- I have to say I'm impressed at the skill involved in the deception and only slightly annoyed. The eroticism, identity play, and exploration of the horrible, abusive depths and bizarre renewals humans are capable of were the, er, thrust of JT's story for me, and I recall The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things delivering on all those scores. But then again, I'm not a seriously abused kid who might have...
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Re: Pete Burns -- Part 2
GREAT Article! ----- Inside the bizarre world of Pete Burns -- Jan 9 2006 PADDY SHENNAN on the weird and wonderful life of Big Brother's Scouse celebrity Paddy Shennan, Liverpool Echo ONCE seen never forgotten, Pete Burns used to walk around Liverpool wearing outrageous black PVC outfits, black contact lenses - and human bones in his hair. "Nobody was as wild as me. Some people used to laugh, but I knew one day I would show them all." This was the Dead or Alive frontman, now 46, talking to...
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Re: Greer Lankton
greer wanted to make a book of her dolls.and she was collecting polaroids of all of her dolls,i mean everyone of them, in shoeboxes. and these like many other things were in the garbage, and i was fighting with a homeless man for them, but i bet you can quess who won,i'm still sad to this day,i sometimes think i will find them under a bridge in chicago somewhere, i always check used bookstores, still after 9 years.i was always buying greer raggety ann and andys, because she was making a...
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Re: NOTS 16 - STEVIE IN WONDERLAND - May 19, 2006
The Latest - PLEASE NOTE THIS YEAR'S BILL IS CLOSED! Thank you, we cant take any more performers at this point. And, to answer the next question - please check back with us right after New Year's 2007 for information about applying for next year's edition, or check our webpage at that time.. Thanks! NOTS 16 IS LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY Greetings from New York City to our beloved Gypsies and fellow Stevie Nicks worshippers, as excitement mounts with this year's NOTS less than a month away. Our...
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Re: The Cincinnati Connection
Cincy - One World Party This Saturday - w/Venus Hum! We're 100 percent sure we're going, wanna come along? Not only is Venus Hum performing at the party... They are turning 5 rooms in the Art Museum to resemble the look & feel of 5 different clubs! Plus the place is haunted, and they're giving night tours. --- The Art Museum only gets this hot every 125 years! Cool vibes. Hot night Five clubs. One party A thousand people. One world One World Weekend "Ibiza, Spain" In honor of the Art...
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Re: Air Travel is shite these days.....
Oh AN, I was traveling to Amsterdam once, long before 9-11, for an extended stay, and ever the ex-Boy scout (ya know, "be prepared") I packed some "cleaning equipment" in my checked baggage. For some weather-related reason, KLM made an unscheduled stop in Manchester and then inexplicably made us change planes-- which entailed giving us back all of our checked baggage, and having us trundle, to another terminal and through UK customs twice . The first customs search was done by a rather...
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Re: The Motherboards Remembers 9/11/2001
Worked a corporate gig at a major talent agency during this period while moonlighting the bars. My favorite client for whom we booked speaking engagements was The Honorable Ann Richards. She had no qualms about filling us in on the depths that W would sink to win. (He of all people brought public her ages-old bout with alcoholism during her schoolteaching years when he ran against and unseated her as Gov. of TX - so much for anonymity). I was listening to the Rolling Stones' Some Girls CD on...
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Re: The Motherboards Remembers 9/11/2001
Letter emailed on The Day: Like alot of folk, I imagined I could walk downtown and have a look. I got over to the river, joined the crowd standing still and silent, staring at the thick single plume of black smoke. I started walking downtown with others. We were stopped at Houston Street. People were trying to force their ways through the police barricade: "I live down there!" "My husband's waiting for me!" "My dogs!" Cops were fighting to keep people from crossing Houston... One cop...
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Re: The Motherboards Remembers 9/11/2001
I loved that S'tan... thanks for sharing I think one of the most upsetting sight were the hours after 9/11 - First the panic that there was more to come, then the sheer chaos of the people rushing around to hospitals, posting flying looking for loved ones they truly believed had made it to hospitals. Tragic. The way Union Sq was transformed with endless candles, posters, flyers and friends and family searching for loved ones. Then there was that acrid smell and dust- I remember walking...
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Re: The Motherboards Remembers 9/11/2001
Hope you all are alive and well this morning, that's all I have to say. I wrote a few haikus about 9/11 in my journal, and a long rant about Bush and the war on terror and the fact that Bush was starting to regret the war in Iraq. I read it when I "finished" it and thought --Damn that's harsh--and I wish that we all could stop mourning and start living life again. For some of us it's easier sad than done. It still pisses me off, what happened that day, and what happened since then. And you...
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Re: Queers are the Blacks of the 1950's!!! Anti-Gay is on the RISE!!
A good pal of mine, Andrew is organizing this event which I think would be worth supporting - Please join us for our next SOULFORCENYC meeting, Tuesday, September 26th, to be held at the LGBT Center from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. We are the NYC chapter of Soulforce national organization (www.soulforce.org). SoulforceNYC's mission is freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance. In short, we...
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
As she would say, "Have you met the TWINS?" "36-24-9 [vaudville pause] the shoe-size honey."
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
hey aleta , your home like the rest here. i said almost the same thing when i 1st got here many months ago. .... welcome and so you know ... sometimes, it seems that people are again very busy being fabulous and don't post right away. David was "David Crocker" /mc/lights and stagemanand yes ... he and i were very good friends and were very much like brothers. he died in 1992 or around then and i heard about it a week later while i was still a street junkie .... his passing has made think so...
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Re: My own private East Village
LOL Joe, I bet it was a cool million$! Half the cops were probably on overtime! The HA building hasn't had a menacing profile for at least 8 or 9 years. This has been reflected in the very type of bike the guys park out front. Nowadays you can see actual dress bikes on the curb. A far way from the heavy choppers and custom parts-yard vehicles that used to dominate there. And you can be sure you are now on Police video tape down at the 6th precinct Joe!