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13 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Ghetto bar “Monday Sept 17th, 9:30 a.m.: Pausing in the hall after taking a shower and hearing hammers banging I think: “Ah, methinks I hear the tinkling sounds of progress and our eviction”. How much like an American author felt I last night as I...
12 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Nicky, a likeness We’d received a notice, slipped under each door, that the premises were about to close down, that everyone had to vacate soon and find a new place. We figured we had about a week.I decided to take on one last adventure, as...
11 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This is a preface to the last of my warehouse days and my brief acquaintance with Nicky, a streetwalker. I befriended her as a case study because I had read the novella, 'Maggie, a girl of the streets' by Steven Crane, an author who cannot be...
11 Mar 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I left the warehouse the same way I left the Plough in the Spring of 78 and San Diego in July of 80, burnt out and badly in need of a rest. But this time I didn’t go the three thousand miles to the sterility of Niagara Falls, but fourteen bloc...
10 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Our first date was great. I made no record of the second but I do remember she visited me at the warehouse the following Saturday and we had a wonderful day and night of it, doing lines and drinking beers, introducing her to my friends there, tal...
9 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Jazz Singer. careersinmusic.com With the mention of her name, I have another brief love affair to relate, brief (three weeks, three dates long) but intense and rich in interesting details, as we were two very different people (as all women a...
8 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Tina Before I describe my final days at the warehouse and the events that led up to my necessary, lucky departure, I’ll paint a brief picture of what it was like to live there those two months, because it was so different any scene I’d experienced...
8 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Painting by Arvydas Martin, reminds me of Rob Coolins work with half- hidden figures Now on to other denizens of the warehouse. Next to me lived Rob C. I was at the end of the long hall where the ‘L’ began and he was one into it. He was a very tal...
7 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Warehouse I met many new people when I moved into the warehouse. It was a large building, two floors, in the flatlands and ghetto of Berkeley. All the other structures around it were run down houses or small businesses or other warehouses, a...
7 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Michelle's girlfriend, the nymphomaniac. “Sunday. June 30th, 7:30 a.m. After writing the preceding bit, I grew restless and paced about in indecision for fifteen minutes, wanting company. (Ali, Lindsey’s brother had stopped by Jim’s several times...
