Al Gore once leaned in close, in a kitchen, late at night, at a party at a film festival, as someone snapped a photo of us. I never circulated it; Al Gore doesn’t go with my image.
The writer and artist Benjamin Weissman had a girlfriend in high school who was simultaneously Jimmy Page’s girlfriend and if I was him I’d tell everyone. I’d never stop. But Ben is modest. Lots of people talk and few of them know. I thought I had a brag that I once dated a guy who’d dated a woman who’d dated Slash. But compared to Jimmy Page, Slash is Al Gore.
In the Nineties, I used to see Dee Snider from Twisted Sister in the elevator of the apartment building on Amsterdam Avenue where many of…
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Harper's (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2023