. on the Hunter Thompson & The Beat Generation panel at GonzoFest July, 17, 2026 — photo by Erin Hemmer . On my recent July return to my beloved NYC, I stayed in the old hotel next door to where I basically grew up in New York — the north-west corner of Washington Square Park […]
It’s The People, Stupid — Returning Home to New York City
August 31st, 2026 · 8 Comments · New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
Tags: Bob Dylan·Chuck Berry·Death of a Salesman·Dylan Thomas·Eddie & Phyllis Condon·Ernest Hemingway·GonzoFest·Greenwich Village·Hamilton·Hunter Thompson·Museum of Modern Art·Strawberry Fields·The Invite·The Rolling Stones·Thomas Wolfe·Village Vanguard·Washington Square Park
Gary Hart rally 1984 Washington Square
September 11th, 2016 · 12 Comments · New York City, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales
How Rock Concerts Led To Politics . For most of ’80s I lived in Phyllis & Eddie Condon’s palatial apartment on Washington Square North. The NYU Program Board from where I ran the concerts was in the Loeb Student Center on Washington Square South — about a 3-minute walk away — if you didn’t dawdle […]
Tags: Bernie Sanders·Election 2016·Grateful Dead·Greenwich Village·Hillary Clinton·Washington Square Park·Winnipeg
The Day I Heard The Tambourine Man
March 28th, 2013 · 18 Comments · Music, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
The Day I Heard The Tambourine Man I, like others, was whisked away by the Gallatin genie just as I was about to drown in the requirements of my previous school. If NYU hadn’t had a school-without-walls, I wouldn’t have graduated, if you want a soundbite about it. The trade-off they offered was that […]
Tags: Bob Dylan·discovering Dylan·Gallatin Division·Hassett and Raubicheck·Jack Kerouac·Mr. Tambourine Man·the Kettle of Fish·Tracy Chapman·Walt Whitman·Walter Raubicheck·Washington Square Park·William Blake·Woody Guthrie