Monthly Archives: January 2013

Madonna At 18

January 25, 2013 – 8:59 pm

Three years later Madonna came to sublet my apartment on East 10th Streeet. The walls were as smooth as lumpy pancakes. The bathtub was in the kitchen and the WC had an overhead chain. “I’ll think about it.” I never heard from her, but she was in my apartment for ten minutes. I bet she […]

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A STEP INTO TOMORROW by Peter Nolan Smith

January 25, 2013 – 8:31 pm

Back in the 1970s rebellious young people fled their hometowns to find solace with like kinds in the East Village. The last decade had depopulated the Lower East Side and we found new lives in the forlorn tenements. In 1976 I escaped Boston in a stolen car and my girlfriend from West Virginia joined me […]

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Serge Gainsbourg and Whitney Houston 1986

January 23, 2013 – 6:20 am

Serge Gainsbourg was the coolest French musician of the last century. His hip stature reverberates to the present. THE BALLAD OF MELODY NELSON is a 27-minute long gem of a concept LP. His conquests of love were legion. His loves were few. Jane Birkin was his muse for 13 years. After their break-up the drink […]

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Hail To The Chief

January 21, 2013 – 11:15 pm

My Man. President again. Yesterday I tried to name all the presidents. I got George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Willima Harrison, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, Zachery Taylor, Millard Fillmore, James Buchanon, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysess S Grant, Rutherford Hayes, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, […]

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Fox News Shutdown

January 21, 2013 – 10:34 pm

Today the Borowitz Report announced that Fox News Channel would shut down for what it called “routine maintenance” Monday morning at 11:30 E.T. Fox News president Roger Ailes explained the timing of the shutdown, which will be the first in the history of the network: “We wanted to pick a time when we were positive […]

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