Category Archives: fashion

Punk Is In

May 9, 2013 – 7:13 pm

This Spring New York City is going retro-Ramones thanks to a Metropolitan Museum exhibition featuring Punk Fashion. In 1975 the only stores to buy punk clothing were Trash n Vaudeville and Manic Panic run by Sick Fucks’ Snooky and Tish. Manic Panic closed years ago, however Trash n Vaudeville on St. Marks Place remains the [...]

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Easter Finery

March 31, 2013 – 6:35 pm

My mother instilled in her children the desire to look good. “It’s one thing to be broke and quite another to look broke.” I got dressed up in her honor for Easter. A suit and tie. I’m sure that would make her happy in the Here-Before. Now all I have to do is shave off [...]

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Fashion Week Paris 1985

February 21, 2013 – 8:44 pm

Me, Mira, and Karl Lagerfeld 1985 Paris.

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Cleaver Penis Pants

January 27, 2013 – 11:58 am

Eldridge Cleaver had a troubled youth in LA, but a rape spree earned the 18 year-old a long sentence to San Quentin and Folsom prisons. His book SOUL ON ICE was published by Ramparts Magazine. Controversy followed his stating that he initially raped black women in the ghetto “for practice” and then embarked on the [...]

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Cool Pockets

October 16, 2012 – 7:35 pm

Back in the 1970s men wore tight clothing. Men were thinner than now. Beer bellies were way in the future and these men didn’t have crew cuts like most men of the 21st Century. They were cool. Back about those pockets. Are these men Mormon missionaries?

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