Buoyed by Crumb’s accolades for Honolulu Babylon, Rollo Invited me to come back to Hawaii and stay with him to made another Babylon. Winter to Albany, New York or Oahu? I didn’t have enough money to fly all the way back, so I bought a one-way Greyhound bus ticket from New York City to San […]
Donna was from Mount Vernon, New York, near the city. I stayed with my aunts and uncles in Suffolk County on Long Island. Our plan was to save up enough money to get an apartment together in Manhattan. This was 1979. There was no Brooklyn or Queens. Rents in Manhattan were outrageous, even then, […]
My Sunbums glory year was over by 1976. There were a couple bad years after that. I wrote for a cheezy tourist rag called “Hotlines Hawaii” and had my first real fling with the art director Pam Baxter, who had lots of cool stories about living with photographer Bob Gruen. (Another namedrop: Pam started seeing […]
By Michael Corcoran Justice has prevailed. John “Johnny Wadd” Holmes has AIDS! Finally, the guy whose member looked like the whole damn club has paid his debt to a society of guys whose sexual satisfaction came mainly from tossing off in sweaty stag closets while Big John eyed Miss Utah runners-up and went about filling […]
by Michael Corcoran I didn’t know that my mother kept everything I wrote since I started in 1963 at age 7. I first got attention for my writing in the fourth grade in Mountain Home, Idaho, when I penned a poem that included the names of all my classmates. It was pretty crude stuff- “Victor […]
BOSTON. The closest thing to going to a Beatles concert since the ‘60s is Paul McCartney’s current show, which ends with a flurry of Fab Four songs that will leave your heart- and ears- throbbing in ecstasy. It was LOUD Wednesday night at the home of the Red Sox, as the 67-year-old McCartney turned in […]
It’s a week of reruns coming up for Letterman and Leno. Monday March 4 Leno- Norah Jones; Kimmel- Sean Rowe; Letterman- Little Big Town; Fallon- Bad Religion, Michael Bolton; Carson Daly- Regina Spektor Tuesday 3/5 Letterman- Buddy Guy; Kimmel- Dave Grohl’s Sound City Players; Fallon- Graham Parker; Leno- Andy Grammer; C. Daly- Curtis Peoples Wednesday […]
Owner Steve Ricci, who looks like Rick Perry after a weekend bender, doesn’t come off too well in the latest episode of “Bar Rescue” on Spike TV. Serial killers have tested with higher LQ- likeability quotient. The reality show portrays Headhunters on Red River as the most vile nightclub ever, with an owner who doesn’t […]
By Michael Corcoran Though they may seem to mean the same thing, there’s a difference between embarrassment and humiliation. Embarrassment is trailing 60-30 and having the opposing team’s star player do a 360 dunk on you. Humiliation is having the other coach’s nerdy son- Kansas walk on Tyler Self– double his season point total with […]
Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys has been sitting in with various acts at the Continental Club Gallery the past two weeks and has been so inspired by the interplay with live musicians that the rapper has moved the jam to Arlyn Studios at 6 a.m. on a couple of occasions. With Gordy Johnson of […]
