NYC really takes care of it’s homeless (1/2 empty bottle of Jim Bean). Pile of trash on E 48th Sreet sidewalkt.
Posted by Mark Allen on 02 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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In NYC, the Buchanan is as close as one can get to the Branford without staying at the Dakota.
Posted by Mark Allen on 02 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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I hope NYC waits until after I leave to get obliterated.
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That suspicious blood bomb Koran car in midtown is preventing me from taking the uptown 6!
Posted by Mark Allen on 02 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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Off to my friend’s UES oh-so-ROSEMARY’S BABY building for tonite. Friends w/NYC apartments are worth their weight in tannis root.
Posted by Mark Allen on 02 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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Headed to the columbarium at St. John the Divine to visit the ashes of a friend who died three years ago.
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I swear I just saw Bob Dylan on Grindr.
Posted by Mark Allen on 02 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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Headed to a screening of Francois Ozon’s HIDEAWAY with @Bill Weber. Excited!
Posted by Mark Allen on 01 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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Thanks for everyone’s concern & emails. I’ve been to a doctor & my Fangoria-looking snake bite is not a big deal & healing up quickly. It was indeed a garter snake.
Posted by Mark Allen on 01 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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Crossing Williamsburg bridge on M train past my old Pitt St. digs & into B’klyn while listening to Nico’s “It Was a Pleasure Then” on headphones. It’s been an intersting 2 days! (decades?)
Posted by Mark Allen on 01 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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New Wonton Garden noodle shop, Mott Street, Chinatown, 12:44 AM (open ’till 2!)
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Brian Turner’s @btrnr ‘84 high school yearbook defacing, another page…
Posted by Mark Allen on 31 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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Brian Turner @btrnr had a peculiar way of defacing his Coughlin High School, Wilkes Barre ‘84 yearbook as a kid
Posted by Mark Allen on 31 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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Got bit by a garter snake while mowing lawn today. Attached to my leg & had to yank it off. Harmless but freaky.
Posted by Mark Allen on 31 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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LIVE: Seven Second Delay at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (report, audio, pics)
Posted by Mark Allen on 29 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
Rev. Sam A. Adreades and Mark Allen (photo: Jeff Moore)
I was coached by a priest that’s part of an “ex-gay” program in front of a live audience at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater last week, as part of Ken Freedman and Andy Breckman’s excellent Seven Second Delay program. The audio archive of the show is up at the 7SD site, as well as some great photos by Jeff Moore. What happened? Well, the power of Christ is still trying to compel me. A lot of my friends — who were great — came out to see me do comedy, and it was instead this awkward, what-the-hell-is-happening kinda thing. The show was… cringe-y, but interesting. Ken and Andy were their usual showman selves, very fun. Rev. Sam A. Adreades of NYC’s Village Church/G.A.M.E. program was great, and a real sport to come out and put himself on the line like that (we’re having lunch this week, and I’m attending G.A.M.E.’s next meeting). He’s a good guy! Did people laugh? There were some clucking tongues and boos when Sam was discussing his opinions about the Kinsey report. It got a bit tense in the audience at one point, and there was some snickering when Sam was praying for me. People seemed to not know if they should be laughing or not. When I was up there I was thinking “How do I get into these situations?” Only one person after the show (an old activist friend) told me what I did was “irresponsible.” I’m glad I did it. And 7SD is known for this kind of thing. There was an EMT crew standing behind me while it was happening (they were there for the competitive eating guy). At one point Andy Breckman tried to turn me straight by surprising me with old black and white Joey Heatherton footage from The Tonight Show. That didn’t work either.
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Got bit by a garter snake while mowing lawn today. Attached to my leg & had to yank it off. Harmless but freaky.
Posted by Mark Allen on 29 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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I tried to sneak out a fart real quietly at work today and concentrated so hard on precise sphincter control that I almost had a heart attack.
Posted by Mark Allen on 28 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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Recommended: listening to Gill Melle’s ANDROMEDA STRAIN sdtk. while riding the upstate train, as the setting sun flickers rapidly along the Hudon river landscape
Posted by Mark Allen on 26 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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Sheep Meadow, Central Park, NYC
Posted by Mark Allen on 26 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Random Posts
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The Flying Lizards: A Band Arranged According to the Laws of Chance [Sound Collector #6, 2001]
Who Is Harry Stephen Keeler? [A To Izzard, A Harry Stephen Keeler Companion, Ramble House]
Bob [blind]
David [deaf]
Greg Walloch
[cerebral palsy and famous]
Kevin [lost left leg]
Victor [too skinny]
Derek [lost most of right arm]
Trip to the Middle of Nowhere
Paris
Columbine High School
Archives of Harry Stephen Keeler
Central Park at night
