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July 11, 1994 Penang Journal

June 11, 2025 – 10:56 am

Penang Hot “Selamat jalan.” My departing words in Indonesian to Gulie at Penang Airport were to wish her a good trip. Penang-Milan- New York. She’s heading back to Manhattan, where my good Italian friend will have to deal with her separation from Giancarlo, her husband my friend. Her entire stay was under the black clouds […]

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May 31, 1978 – East Village – Journal

May 31, 2025 – 1:49 pm

Everybody was watching Clover at the party. Her youth. Her beauty. Her reputation. She had told Anthony that an older man pays her rent. The Texan oilman visits twice a month. He pays for sex. Andy Reese of the Serendipity 3 crowd said that she was a prostitute. The ballet dancer tricked out of Cowboys […]

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May 26, 1978 East Village – Journal Entry

May 30, 2025 – 8:39 am

class=”separator” style=”clear: both;”> Tonight is the big Gemini party. The four of us invited everyone we knew in New York. Not everyone likes everyone and Kim is scared there will be fights. I tell her not to worry. I’ll be the birthday bouncer. I think she was worried about me fighting. My guests are Bruce, […]

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MAY 27, 1978 THE VILLAGE JOURNAL ENTRY

May 27, 2025 – 8:10 am

An incredible quadruple Gemini birthday party at Kim and Kyle Davis’ apartment on Bleecker Street. Sean Hausman, Eric Goode, and Kim had hung blue and white balloons overhead. They plastered xeroxed fotos of the four natal celebrants on the wall and illuminated the living room with a modulating blue lights. Punk and funk music. Beer […]

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May 25, 1978 SRO – Journal

May 25, 2025 – 9:14 am

“Don’t you want to fuck?” asked Alice. She was naked under a sheer and I sat in my unzipped black jeans on the edge of the small bed in the West 11th Street SRO. I wanted to have sex, but I wasn’t going to make the first move, since I often felt her cringe to […]

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