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Here’s to you, Toots
Kristi Jacobson has made an excellent 85-minute documentary (Toots, 2006) about her grandfather, Toots Shor, and the eponymous joint he opened in 1939 at 51 West 51st Street. Among the cats who went there…
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The Sexual Organs
"The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. The eye or the ear seldom sabotage you. An eye will not stop seeing if it doesn't like what it sees,…
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Still Swimming, Not Drowning — by Sarah Maclay
This is how much it has rained here today: some streets are so full of water that you can’t cross them by foot unless you’re wearing rubber. My favorite: water so deep and murky…
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Is Paradox Erotic or is Eros Paradoxical? — by Sarah Maclay
I love to carry paradox in my mind until it practically bursts. On a whim, I typed "paradox" into an online dictionary site and was taken to "Ask Jeeves." But I hadn't asked Jeeves.…
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Fred, Frank, and Elvis
ELVIS PRESLEY, FRANK SINATRA and FRED ASTAIRE at Nancy Sinatra's opening night party, which was also celebrating the closing night for Elvis, at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, in 1969. Elvis's bodyguard,…
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Swimming in the Erotic Grotto — by Sarah Maclay
OK. I’ll admit it. Not only am I incredibly blog-shy, I’m a blog virgin. This is my first time. And of course, of course, it would be with all of you, who suddenly seem…
