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New York, N.Y.—It was Saturday night. Despite the killjoy sign—”No drugs, weapons or alcohol”—the killjoy heat, the killjoy humidity, the killjoy rabble, and the killjoy location (a church!), I went in through the door. Left-wing agitators, maybe even anarchists, were in town and someone (an assignment our killjoy editor had rather discouragingly told the New York Times was the “short straw“) had to keep an eye on them. But, in my Gomorrah, the city I call home, the city of Pinch Sulzberger, Al Sharpton, Susan Sarandon, and the ever-degenerate George Costanza, where to begin? After detailed research—several minutes at least [...]
Bowery Bums
August 31, 2004