Category Archives: East Village

January 7, 1979 – East Village – Journal

February 13, 2024 – 11:56 am

Rain falls on the grimy snow piling up in the alley behind 256 East 10th Street. New York has declared a snow day. I love snow days. I blankly watch the James Bond movie on our black and white TV. The plot of YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE lazily saunters between fucking and killing tangents with […]

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January 4, 1979 – East Village – Journal

February 13, 2024 – 11:11 am

Today is Alice’s Birthday. No sex. All I intend to do today is make her life a pleasure. I do love her.

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THE DUKE OF ROCK by Peter Nolan Smith

February 8, 2024 – 1:07 am

Published on 5/2/2010 I don’t own a television. My laptop provided most of the programming necessary for entertainment, although the online screen resembles that of an airline economy-class movie presentation. The only gap on my computer has been sporting events and I fill that absence by heading down to Frank’s Bar on Fulton Avenue. Last […]

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January 3, 1979 – Journal – East Village

January 29, 2024 – 10:33 am

Alice and I get drunk at CBGBs with Bill Yusk. At CBGBs. Where else? Alice was mad at me, because she had to wait at the door. Lisa Krystal wouldn’t let her in for free without me. Kim wasn’t waitressing either. “I don’t understand why they treat you like they do.” Alice thinks I’m nothing. […]

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January 1, 1979 – East Village – Journal

January 23, 2024 – 11:55 am

Alice, Anthony, and I saw in the New Year on 3rd Avenue. A gang member of Puerto Ricans from the Lower East Side muttered at Alice, “What are you looking at, ugly?” Ship horns from the harbor signaled the end of 1978 and the gang member wished us, “Feliz año nuevo.” We returned the wish. […]

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