2017-01-26 15:12
Drunk at four in the morningmy friend Eddie and Iare sitting in this young woman’s apartmentwatching a Depeche Mode video.On the floor in front of the TVsome guy she knowsis passed out… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Behind the wheel listening to P-Funk in my new neighborhoodthe blank stare of the shirtless Larry the Cable Guy lookalike sharpensto crystal clarity as his lazy slouch straightens up into a… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Of course I always had other girls around; and at work, during that time I spent working on setting up my situation at home, I was fucking Thelma. It was her image that I had in mind when I… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Things went on this way for a while. Drinking with Bino and Carone at the bar, fucking Rachel a few times a week and, here and there, another girl or two.I'd been drinking a lot, usually jus… Read More
2008-12-09 16:28
Bino started seeing Paula all the time. He was, he told me, “in love.” He fell in love so easily. All it took was for a woman to smile at him half sincerely and he was hooked. He… Read More
2008-12-09 16:28
I spent Christmas eve at home, working with the dogs. On Christmas day I drove into town. After parking near Union Square, I walked around for a few hours. Up Broadway into the hundreds and… Read More
2008-12-09 16:28
Every now and then I would meet Vince and Karen in town. As I didn't know many people in the area, staying in touch with them seemed a good idea, especially since doing so would mean I'd eve… Read More
2008-12-09 16:28
There always comes a point in one's life where one has to sever all ties with some portion of the past. For some people doing so is a difficult and emotional undertaking. But as for me, my h… Read More
2008-12-09 16:28
I would have left town right when Lily told me she was pregnant, but I'd just started learning about dogs at the track. I was intrigued by the dogs. Left alone, they ate, they slept, they fu… Read More
Bourbon, Dogs, And Arlene Dahl: Part II, Chapter 11 From The Edge Of The World (a Novel In Progress)
2008-07-01 03:52
At work I was doing the usual things—plugging in numbers, generating new numbers, then generating reports on the new numbers. It went on and on... I'd wake up at six in the morning, ge… Read More
2008-01-06 05:43
There were always people whose existence I was compelled to ignore. Whose words and actions I tried to shoo away with a wave of my hand as I would a fly. And New York, being the preferred de… Read More
2007-10-20 03:41
None of the women at the company would fuck me. It seemed that somewhere along the line I'd lost the ablity to seduce budding young business women. Even the receptionist was immune to my cha… Read More
2007-08-21 03:29
A month later was when Bino and Ron had their reading. I'd worked that day, after which I went home to feed the dogs, and then to the vet to pick up a dog of mine that had gotten hurt earlie… Read More
2007-02-06 04:15
To make Lily mine I had what I called my dog plan—my canine agenda. And the first order of business therein was to make myself handy around the apartment. That meant taking care of Kidd… Read More
2007-02-06 04:13
From then on it was one girl after another. It took less and less time and planning for me to get them. And while it had taken me nearly half a year to grab onto Miss Dupree, I got it to the… Read More
2006-12-05 06:06
"My name is Lemuel," I said to her. "I work with dogs."I had walked into Macy's one hot day and was wandering around the ground floor when I saw her—a tall brunette with big tits, no br… Read More
2006-12-04 01:51
Leonard was not at all like me. Which, perhaps, was why he fascinated me so much. Because unlike me he was never able to lose his memory. No matter how far he traveled, his memory was with h… Read More
2006-12-04 01:51
In September of 1984 Leonard had been living with Annalisa for over four years. After spending the entire afternoon of their day off watching television, he told Annalisa that they should dr… Read More
2006-12-04 01:51
Leonard was on the road for a month. He went through El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle. He circled around to Billings, Bismarck, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Denver. At the… Read More
2006-12-04 01:50
Leonard packed just a small duffel bag—he didn’t want to carry a heavy load—and walked down to the highway ready to hitchhike west. After being on the side of the road for al… Read More
2006-12-04 01:50
On June 16, 1979, Lily and Leonard celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary, and it was on this very day that Lemuel showed up at their door. By this time I’d been born and baptize… Read More
2006-12-04 01:49
Leonard had gotten a new job shortly before I was born—he was now the manager of a sporting goods store at the local shopping center. Although it was a harder job with longer hours than… Read More
2006-12-04 01:49
It was two weeks after the prom—right after Lily’s graduation ceremony—when Lily and Leonard left Georgia. They spent the time between these two events preparing for their ne… Read More
2006-12-04 01:48
Lily and Leonard lived with their parents, and their brother Lemuel, in Athens, Georgia. Their house, the house I had lived in from the age of nine until I left for New York with Marly, was… Read More
2006-12-04 01:47
As for my family history, I experienced very little first hand. But like the stone and sand and dirt that comprise the history of New York City, it was something I understood. And little by… Read More
2006-06-10 20:53
I am an angel. I live in outer space but you call itHeaven. I sit immobile but you think I have wings.Though I watch your every move, I have no stakein your health or happiness. Though I man… Read More
2006-04-04 05:00
1. Dear god grant me the strengthto destroy the things I can destroy,words to deface the things I can't,and wisdom to get away with it.2. This is for the space between words, the slowfall of… Read More
2006-02-14 17:16
They stand there throwing lines at each otherinside the TV set. The music blazesinside my head as a beautiful girl water skis."This music would be good to hear on the radiowhile waking up… Read More
2006-01-11 17:37
According to The Book of Revelation 13:5, "The beast was given a mouth for uttering proud boasts and blasphemies, but the authority it received was to last only forty-two months." After comi… Read More
2005-12-16 01:09
When I moved to New York City I was struck by the sensuality of the landscape. I mean, I knew about the sensuality of the women there—indeed, when I was just a visitor to the city that… Read More
2005-12-06 19:15
My friend Michael and Iare sitting at an outdoor cafeon Avenue A, drinking beer,when we spot Lady Miss Kier,the singer of the hot new bandDeee-Lite.She’s walking down the streetdressed… Read More
2005-12-01 15:17
Sometime in the 70's disco came on the scene. The songs were long and repetitious with lyrics which, more often than not, were either sappy or stupid or both. To say that you liked disco was… Read More
2005-11-22 22:23
by Serge Gainsbourgtranslated by John and Doreen WeightmanTamTam BooksLike Charles Bukowski, Lucien Ginzburg was a lecherous dog of a man. Blunt, obscene, and, at times, even childish, both… Read More
2005-11-12 21:32
"I had no idea what Movado was. I didn't care, and didn't want to encourage the man by asking. I was tired from moving furniture, and not in the mood for shopping. But it looked pretty good… Read More
2005-10-27 03:04
Out of LA at 10 pm, down the San Bernardino Freeway,past the procession of supermarkets andhighway motels, $9.95 a night, downthe orange and white fluorescent highwaya long way from home.Sou… Read More
2005-10-14 18:30
Living on Avenue Banana in the 1990s was not a lot like drinking tea.I looked up to the sky. You shouted at people driving by in limousines.We ate rice and chicken, wondered what to do. You… Read More
2005-10-10 03:19
Life is cheap. Georgetown isn’t. It costs about six bucks to get what’s called a chicken pot pie at what passes for a coffee shop in the so-called heart of Georgetown. The pot pi… Read More
2005-10-02 05:16
somewhere in Iowathe beautiful young woman withthe ponytailsgot off the Greyhound busto meet her dad.It was Thanksgivingmorning and the sun was out,here in what I guess isthe “heart of… Read More
2005-09-24 23:53
Jim Nabors first came to the public's attention on The Andy Griffith Show, playing the dim-witted character of "Gomer Pyle." Wearing overalls and a baseball cap—and speaking with a slo… Read More
2005-09-18 03:03
That Chona Maki gets into the car with me and Carl is probably the greatest vote of confidence either of us has had in years. All she knows about me is that all day I’ve been buying dr… Read More
2005-09-16 15:21
Larry was impressed, and halfway to Las Vegas he was still checking his rear view mirror every ten minutes. Sometimes he’d see Cousin Louie with his hand inside Amber’s blouse. A… Read More
2005-09-10 03:06
A week later, on a Friday night, I got a message that a woman named Mary Lindy had called. The name sounded familiar but I wasn’t quite sure where I’d heard it before. Later that… Read More
2005-09-06 01:29
I came to the conclusion that my future in New York had been in Claudia Schiffer’s hands. Claudia—with her tiny, round eyes which always seemed to be staring at the ground on the… Read More
2005-09-01 02:30
Watching TVin my hotel roomin downtownNew Orleans.I'm by the freeway andmy room feels cold.I'mthinkingaboutbirds Read More
2005-08-25 03:32
At the end of another drunken weekof beer and whiskey and wineI walked homeand on the street I met a womanwho bummed a cigarette from meand offered a piece of candy in return.She told me she… Read More
2005-08-23 14:02
Yeah, we moved. Bought a house. A house down the road. Down the river. Down south.Well, it's not that much further south, but we're probably going to want to buy a Chevy pickup truck with a… Read More
2005-08-20 02:07
Like a having a dog hump your leg, it felt odd at first, having this stranger touch me. But in an instant I found myself detached from what was really happening, imagining that I was watchin… Read More
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