“They called me up and said Murray the K is gonna play your record tonight...finally on comes Murray the K, except it’s Paul Sherman. He says Murray the K is ill tonight, and I can’t fuckin’ believe it, right, my big moment. So Sherman played it, he was an asshole. Not that Murray the K wasn’t an asshole, but if you’re going to have an asshole play it, you want the biggest.”
"Lou Reed: Ugly People Got No Reason to Live" by Josh Alan Friedman.
And it does get ugly.
Click here to read it on Black Cracker Online.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Vanina Marsot in Berlin
(click image to enlarge)
street art
copyright © 2009 Vanina Marsot
Click here to order your copy of Vanina Marsot's new book, Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Josh Alan Friedman's STEAMBATH Memories
"When a devastated Charles Grodin asked why he was being replaced in the lead by Anthony Perkins (also the director), the producer’s answer was blunt: 'Tony has a bigger cock.' "
Steambath - the 1970 stage sensation by Bruce Jay Friedman.
"Steambath" - a recollection in words and pictures by Josh Alan Friedman.
Click here to read it now at Black Cracker Online.
Steambath - the 1970 stage sensation by Bruce Jay Friedman.
"Steambath" - a recollection in words and pictures by Josh Alan Friedman.
Click here to read it now at Black Cracker Online.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Vanina Marsot interview on France 24
Watch Vanina Marsot in conversation with Clovis Casilac on France 24 here:
http://www.france24.com/en/Literature-Architecture
And be sure to visit Vanina's new website here:
www.VaninaMarsot.com
Click here to order your copy of Vanina Marsot's new book, Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris.
http://www.france24.com/en/Literature-Architecture
And be sure to visit Vanina's new website here:
www.VaninaMarsot.com
Click here to order your copy of Vanina Marsot's new book, Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Vanina Marsot in Berlin
(click image to enlarge)one blue eye, one brown eye
copyright © 2009 Vanina Marsot
Click here to order your copy of Vanina Marsot's new book, Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
"Chasin' Jackie Mason (Part 2)" by Josh Alan Friedman
“ 'Write me a script, any script, as long as I get to be a Jewish detective, and I’ll get you a hundred-thousand dollars.' "
Chasin' Jackie Mason (Part 2) by Josh Alan Friedman.
Click here to read it at Black Cracker Online.
Chasin' Jackie Mason (Part 2) by Josh Alan Friedman.
Click here to read it at Black Cracker Online.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
"Chasin' Jackie Mason (Part 1)" by Josh Alan Friedman
"'I would have died like a dog if I wasn’t a performer—in bars, in lounges, for lowlifes, wiseguys, pimps, hoodlums. And this was just at a Jewish wedding.'"
Chasin' Jackie Mason (Part 1) by Josh Alan Friedman.
Click here to read it at Black Cracker Online.
Chasin' Jackie Mason (Part 1) by Josh Alan Friedman.
Click here to read it at Black Cracker Online.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Vanina Marsot in Berlin
(click image to enlarge)
street art
copyright © 2009 Vanina Marsot
Click here to order your copy of Vanina Marsot's new book, Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
A Newstastic! Labor Day from Plato Jesus
Labor Day is a working holiday for Plato Jesus, and to celebrate he brings us a whopping 14 new installments of That's Newstastic!
With such a display of heroic endurance, Plato Jesus appears to be bucking for the title of Labor Day's new Iron Man.
Et tu, Jerry Lewis?
finn wins world wife-carrying championship
why toilet paper belongs to america
big apple sign recalled harlem's jazz era; then it vanished, too
why are southerners so fat?
'fight club' baby boomer
pretty-boy model in rob-spree bust
the gnome with the nazi salute: art or crime?
slain heir's secrets
'are we just here just for your amusement?'
the neo-nazis of mongolia: swastikas against china
peeing in the shower: the rules
scots sniper hills taliban leader with longest shot
teeth are removed by force on religious grounds
connect the dots--cheney--CIA--blackwater & pat tillman
man allegedly calls 911 twice to say he's hungry
With such a display of heroic endurance, Plato Jesus appears to be bucking for the title of Labor Day's new Iron Man.
Et tu, Jerry Lewis?
finn wins world wife-carrying championship
why toilet paper belongs to america
big apple sign recalled harlem's jazz era; then it vanished, too
why are southerners so fat?
'fight club' baby boomer
pretty-boy model in rob-spree bust
the gnome with the nazi salute: art or crime?
slain heir's secrets
'are we just here just for your amusement?'
the neo-nazis of mongolia: swastikas against china
peeing in the shower: the rules
scots sniper hills taliban leader with longest shot
teeth are removed by force on religious grounds
connect the dots--cheney--CIA--blackwater & pat tillman
man allegedly calls 911 twice to say he's hungry
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Vanina Marsot in Berlin
(click image to enlarge)converted factory
copyright © 2009 Vanina Marsot
Click here to order your copy of Vanina Marsot's new book, Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
"Wayne Newton's Altamont" by Josh Alan Friedman
"Brawls, screaming matches, even catfights between jewelry-bedecked old ladies broke out everywhere you turned, like a tower of Babel, while a few were rushed out on stretchers, alleged victims of heart attacks..."
Wayne Newton's Altamont, by Josh Alan Friedman.
Click here to read it.
Wayne Newton's Altamont, by Josh Alan Friedman.
Click here to read it.
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