tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3888761865007160620.post8225052858943111257..comments2024-01-11T07:20:36.083-08:00Comments on Luna Park: A Lion PassesEditor, Luna Parkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11991001936930679683noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3888761865007160620.post-44179783729958116392007-12-02T10:58:00.000-08:002007-12-02T10:58:00.000-08:00AT HARVEY MATUSOW'S CHRISTMAS PARTY, 1965My friend...AT HARVEY MATUSOW'S CHRISTMAS PARTY, 1965<BR/><BR/>My friend is screwing Matusow's babysitter,<BR/>so we all get invited to his Christmas party.<BR/><BR/>Lily Tomlin, a few years from fame,<BR/>does living-room standup.<BR/><BR/>Everyone gets totally wasted on<BR/>some of the best pot you've ever smoked.<BR/><BR/>The catered food is probably stupendous<BR/>but we're all so stoned that owl shit would taste<BR/>like bring-in from The Four Seasons.<BR/><BR/>Late at night, I go into the bedroom to<BR/>retrieve my coat, and there on the bed sit<BR/>Matusow sharing a joint with Norman Mailer.<BR/><BR/>Mailer glances up at me and glares:<BR/>looks but doesn't have to say<BR/>"Knock before you walk in, schmuck."<BR/>Excuse me, gentlemen, I say,<BR/>grab my coat, I think I almost bow like<BR/>some Austrian majo-domo, and leave.<BR/>Mailer's pot-fueled stare has burned a hole<BR/>in my back.<BR/>Now, which way is the IRT Express<BR/>back to the Bronx and the usual oblivion?<BR/><BR/>KTW/11-10-07 <BR/><BR/> For Norman Mailer, d. 11/07Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10020538249548627986noreply@blogger.com