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Party Pics! Party Pics! (Updated!) (opens the original)
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Narrated: On the Death of Presley Gerber and the Rehab Riviera (opens the original)
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Audio version of this article, for the 2 hopefully many people who like to listen. Speaking of listening, one of my three tattoos. <sou
On the Death of Presley Gerber and the Rehab Riviera (opens the original)
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A few decades ago, I participated in an intervention. It involved a childhood friend who’d gotten involved with heroin. I lived in Los Angeles at the time, as did my friend, who I’ll call Jack. We were each very much been part of the mid-90s “heroin chic” scene, he as a bartender, me as nightlife columnist; we had friends go through rehab and others that fatally overdosed. I had never seen heroin and did not initially recognize signs that people were using it—why was D. falling asleep on the cou
The 100 Windows Project: Introduction (opens the original)
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Busting a Misery Scammer (opens the original)
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As some of you here know, my friend Andrew Wimsatt was murdered on Labor Day. It was a brutal killing, the details of which I have chosen not to detail here; they are easily enough found. Better days with Andrew at the Chinatown pad in the pic below, which Matt used when he posted a beautiful and moving tribute to Andrew.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-
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