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01 April 2008

Your Daily Moment of Zen. Or Something. →[More:] me and my co-worker Keith were standing on the sidewalk smoking when this short, muscled-up black guy with a shaved head and a Fu Manchu 'stache lokked at us and said "I used to hang out with Quentin Crisp,' he paused for a beat, 'and the Hell's Angels,' and then walked away down 12th Street.

I don't know either.

post by: jonmc at: 18:44 | 11 comments

Lower East Side baby, that's how they do it, leather and lace. Or lace and leather, I can never remember.

posted by Divine_Wino 01 April | 19:04

My brother was a lawyer for a chapter of the Hell's Angels in the 70s. Quentin Crisp is on his own.

posted by Pips 01 April | 19:24

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by Pips 01 April | 19:32

Isn't he dead? i loved him, Quentin Crisp.

posted by ethylene 01 April | 19:52

This pic of Quentin Crisp reminds me of the gay barfly in Magnolia.

posted by LoriFLA 01 April | 20:05

My husband used to buy used cars from the Hell's Angels.

posted by bunnyfire 01 April | 20:25

Pretty sure I saw him years ago in Kate's Joint in the Village. Sounds like a random reach-out to make a literary connection. Gotta love it.
Overheard in Bushwick last week - "We still don't know if it's true, I ain't even seen no damn baby yet!"
The week before, in a coffee shop - "I went to Williamsburg the other day and I was like 'who are all these people that look just like me?'"

posted by Hellbient 01 April | 23:02

*chuckling at Quisp box*

posted by chewatadistance 02 April | 07:06

Quentin Crisp:We would go to Second Avenue. That way is First Avenue, and there live the Angels.

Monk: The Hell's Angels or the Guardian Angels?

Quentin Crisp:Yes, the Hell's Angels. They have a bad reputation. They've never murdered me. When I take my laundry to the laundry on First Avenue, I pass between their house and their row of Harleys. I pass with bowed head to show I accept their supremacy, and they've never murdered me.

Monk: That's because you've showed respect. So we go past the Hell's Angels, and if we go up this way?

Quentin Crisp: If we go this way, this is Second Avenue, which is nice, and the people have said to me, "Do you get stared at as much in New York as you did in London?" And I say, "There is nothing you could wear on Second Avenue that would make you remarkable." And there isn't.

posted by GeckoDundee 02 April | 07:52

this short, muscled-up black guy with a shaved head and a Fu Manchu 'stache lokked at us

Was his name Todd?

posted by Eideteker 02 April | 08:21

This morning, on my walk to work, I overheard a man speaking to his son, in quite serious tones: "Well, you'd think that a turtle who knew karate could..."

Unfortunately, I didn't hear the rest.

posted by mrmoonpie 02 April | 09:16

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