Monthly Archives: March 2009

Pierre of the Plaza Hotel RIP 2008-2009

March 30, 2009 – 11:29 am

The Plaza Hotel has been one of New York City’s premier destination since its opening in 1905. Truman Capote held his Black and White fete in the Grand Ballroom, Neil Simon wrote PLAZA SUITE about an afternoon in the hotel, and during the 1978 Black-Out I rushed to the Oak Room for a bucket of [...]

By Peter | Posted in NEW YORK | Comments (0)

SHEENA IS A PUNK ROCKER the Ramones – Song of the Day

March 27, 2009 – 9:09 pm

Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go They’re ready to go now They’ve got their surfboards And they’re going to the discotheque a go go But she just couldn’t stay She had to break away Well New York City really has it all Oh yeah, oh yeah Sheena is a punk [...]

By Peter | Posted in music | Comments (0)

What’s Wrong with Kids in PA Today

March 27, 2009 – 9:01 pm

The First Admendment was written into the American Constitution to protect the Freedom of Speech and for decades libertarians have defended pornography as the front line of that liberty. The GOP under GW Bush had scheduled a massive attack on that lightning rod. 9/11 short-circuited that attack, as the Justice Department rolled back habeus corpus [...]

By Peter | Posted in Crime, Sin | Comments (0)

THE ITCH by Steven Hammer

March 27, 2009 – 8:38 pm

The first porno book is read was THE ITCH by Steven Hammer on Olympia Press. I must have read it 3000 times between the 1965 and 1969. The author’s blue tales of trisexual liasions between aristocrats warped my tender libido and I rejected virginity as a value. Here’s a passage from that great tome. She [...]

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Modern Mae

March 27, 2009 – 8:29 pm

Mae West was smarter than most of the men in Hollywood in her time. Funny too. Just like my friend from Tampa Bay, Dianne Brill, the modern Mae.

By Peter | Posted in Activities | Comments (0)