DINING AND DRINKING WITH OTHERS OVER THE YEARS PART THREE (SORRY I COULDN'T IDENTIFY EVERYONE IN THESE PHOTOS)

me & my first wife, Lee, 1966, not long after I got out of the military

me and Hart Bochner at Santa Monica Farmers' Market c. 1984

me and Tommy Swerdlow Beverly Hills (I think) c. 1990

Michael Harris (aka MK), Katey Sagal and me at same party c. 1990

me and Elaine Durbach Maplewood NJ c. 1999

my son Flynn, me and his mother Jaina on my 60th b'day in The Berkshires 2002

Jaina, Flynn, me, Lara, Sue Brennan,  Jeanne Donohue, Bill Lannigan and his son Colm at a Bennihana's in New Jersey c. 2008

Clare Danes, ? and me at The Bowery Poetry Club NYC c. 2008

my nieces Linda Lally Thomson and the late Cathy Frietas, me, and their husbands Bob Freitas and Howard Thomson behind my oldest sibling, the late Father Campion, in upstate New Jersey c. 2008

Elinor Nauen, me, ?, Eve Bandstein and ? ? ? standing; May Pang, the late Taylor Negron, Sylvana Joyce and ? sitting or squatting at The Cutting Edge NYC c. 2014

HAPPY CANADA DAY

Here's some good reasons why Canada gets an "Eh" (pronounced "A" of course) when compared to the USA.

GOTTA TURN IT UP AND LISTEN TO THE END AND THEN TELL ME YOUR EYES AREN'T WET

DAVID GITIN R.I.P.

Didn't know poet David Gitin well but the few times I was around him he, and the poems of his I liked, made it clear to me he was a good guy, and a good poet. Here's two that sum up my impression of him pretty well:


CHUCKLE

chuckle down fear

year after year

smile like a porpoise

MUSIC FOR ZEN MEDITATION

eucalyptus outside my window
sunlight plays on the floor

yesterday's papers
motes of dust

sudden green
of Betty's blouse

MY LATEST FAVORITE QUOTE

"Happy Pride, Michael.....I will always consider you a gay pioneer...xo xo"
—Michael Ferri (referring to me, in response to a comment I made on a photo of him and a fellow member of Skyline Faggots, a pioneering gay activist collective in DC in 1972, when my first wife and I also lived in a commune with our two children and mostly lesbian feminist activists and were experimenting with our "sexual" identities, partly in support of the burgeoning movement for gay and lesbian rights)

TRULY BRAVE HEART

YAY