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BOHO_MOMENTS

                                                  January  17, 2009
                                                  February 16, 2009

In the lives of anyone who dives into
the underground, who steps sideways
into the alternative, who follows the
time-honored road less traveled,
there are moments great and small                    When I was a teenager, I
where you know for sure that you're                  was once visiting an older
not in Levittown any more.                           friend of mine in his new
                                                     digs... with the assistance
It may be that these are the                         of some friends working at
things of which hipsterism are                       the VA hospital, he was
made, no philosophy, no manifesto,                   living for free in a dorm
is more important than the simple                    provided for interns,
experience of being there, and                       essentially pretending he
knowing it...                                        was a doctor.

              SEARCH_PATTERN                         I commented:

     Glancing out the window of                          "That sounds like
     The Pirate Cat Cafe, and                            something out of
     seeing Monkey and Diamond                           a Jack Kerouac novel."
     Dave dancing together on
     the sidewalk.                                       He was not displeased
                                                         at the remark.
                                             
            Four of us stepped out the back              WHATNOT
            door of Cellspace...  A young          
            woman was out with her boy             
            friend, photographing an               
            abandoned toilet bowl against a        
            graffiti backdrop.  One of us          
            set-up a professional grade            
            sky-rocket in a vertical pipe,         
            ready for launch, and another          
            commented "You should photograph       
            *this*".  It was lit and               
            immediately shot up into the           
            sky, exploding into a spangled,        
            irridescent sphere fifty feet          CONTEXT_AGAIN
            wide.  She said "I missed it!"         
            We laughed, filed back in              
            through the back door stenciled        
            with a large blue gorilla artwork.     
                                                  

  "In 1913 the slight, side-burned, ascetic-looking
  Dell, whose sensitive features bore a resemblance
  to those of Edgar Allan Poe, was only another
  Villager-in-embryo, though his first night below           Floyd Dell,
  Fourteenth Street was instantaneously Village.  He         author of
  was taken to call on a beautiful girl dancer who           "Moon Calf";
  kept a pet alligator in her bathtub.  She                  "Intellectual
  commanded Dell to let the alligator bite his               Vagabondage";
  finger.  Dell tentatively proferred the little             "Love in
  finger of his left hand, considering it most               Greenwich
  expendable.  The alligator dutifully nipped it in          Village";
  friendly fashion.  Within twenty-four hours, Dell
  had been introduced to Henrietta Rodman and asked            MELEE
  to write a play for the next theatrical evening of
  the Liberal Club.  He heaved a sigh of utter
  happiness ... "

                    -- Allen Churchill,
                       "Improper Bohemians", p.69


                                                        IMPROPER_BOHEMIANS


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