Meetings And Stories, Chapter 4 It was in the latter part of the magical summer of 1980. I was driving my taxi, and for the first time, I asked my opera singer girlfriend, Julia Madison, if she would like to go out with me for a few hours while I worked. Julia said she would […]
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Bill Murray Leaving The Nursery At Dawn by Mark R. Elsis
Meetings And Stories, Chapter 3 It was either a very late Saturday night or a pretty early Sunday morning. But that depended on who you were and how you looked at the world. The one undeniable thing is that this brief meeting occurred on the first full day of the magical summer of 1980, June […]
Fifteen Seconds With Andy Warhol by Mark R. Elsis
Meetings And Stories, Chapter 2 It was May 5, 1982, a beautiful mid-spring Wednesday evening, and I was taking my girlfriend Kimberly Manning out to attend a concert. We were going to the Ritz nightclub on 11th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue. This section of Manhattan, southeast of Union Square Park, was called […]
Thank You, Curly Neal by Mark R. Elsis
Meetings And Stories, Chapter 1 It was February of 1970, and I had just turned twelve years old a month earlier. I lived and breathed basketball since before my first intramural game, which didn’t happen when scheduled on November 9, 1965, because that was the evening of the Great Northeast Blackout. Since it was the […]