86ed Stories

Tommy Tucker

Tommy Tucker, as Tommy Diventi, published a lot of Baltimore and some New York poets on Apathy Press. Their logo is a brain with wings, which he has tattooed on his upper arms. Now he works on a road crew and has a band as Tommy Tucker. He has a giant heart but sweats the small stuff.

–Blowdryer

Drunks on a Plane

I just want to call attention to this website, Drunks on a Plane. One day I’m going to interview a former comedienne who works as a flight attendant now, because its always interesting when people can’t follow the boundaries of airplane behavior for the required amount of time. Decades ago a starlet called Joey Heatherton was escorted off a plane brandishing a pair of scissors, and more recently Mo’Nique, one of my favorite comediennes ever, tried to use a first class compartment to store her hairdo equipment, then accused the stewardess of getting racialist when she was told you can only do that if you’re actually sitting in first class. Mo’Nique and her entourage were escorted off the plane, and she went on one of those shows like Extra telling a sympathetic tabloid reporter that she had been treated just like an ‘animal.’

–Blowdryer

G-Sus

Note: Sorry for the two and a half month delay since the last posting. We have a new batch of videos to upload, and we’re trying to get back into the habit of updating weekly.

G-Sus was born and bred on Avenue C, NYC, and he’s the only poet I know who makes money for it, and gets hugs, on the street. I caught up with him in Tompkins Square Park, never a hard thing to do, for this little 86ed interview

–Blowdryer

Brian Dillon

Brian Dillon works for the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority), aka New York City subway system. He is a token-booth clerk who works the graveyard shift, and he has an incredible memory. In the 1990s, he published the underground (literally) zine TRASH (Transit-worker Revelations And Substantiated Hearsay), and currently, he sings in the band Box of Crayons.

Blowdryer says, “This interview is one of the biggest ‘gets’ of my career!”

Scotty Schizo

Blowdryer interviews rogue hairstylist Scotty Schizo about being 86ed from various establishments in the East Village. She first met Scotty at the Mars Bar when she was on a Sparks binge. He ended up cutting her hair at 5 am, which was either a brilliant move or a tragic mistake.

August Bleed, the Thief

August Bleed just finished serving six months in SF County Jail for shoplifting and other charges. He has been kicked out of many places for shoplifting, using drugs, and other reasons. He shares a few of those memories with Blowdryer. Blowdryer’s interview with August Bleed appears in the Crime issue of the Instant City journal. His poetry rocks.

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Moonshine Shorey

Moonshine Shorey is a poet and an artist in residence (aka a bartender) at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. He first tells us about a memorable patron that he had to kick out of his bar, and then he turns the tables to demonstrate that he too can be a drunken asshole.

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LES Jules

A fixture on New York’s Lower East Side, Jules has been kicked out of pretty much every place on Avenue A.

Desiree Burch

Comic Desiree Burch tells us about a disastrous bachelorette party in Miami.

Joey Gay

Joey Gay is a comedian who was featured on season 4 of Last Comic Standing. He tells us about how he got kicked out of college, and almost 20 years later got a hero’s welcome when he was hired to perform there as a stand-up.

Patricia Rose on Paul Addis

Patricia Rose tells us about her friend Paul Addis who was kicked out of Burning Man after burning the Burning Man sculpture down several days early. Addis is currently serving 1-4 years in federal prison on arson charges.

San Francisco Montage

Brontez (from Fag Skool zine and the band Gravy Train), Debbie Kirk, and Herb.

Neeli Cherkovski on Bukowski

Neeli Cherkovski is a San Francisco poet and biographer of Charles Bukowski. Blowdryer initially wanted to interview him about Bob Kaufman, another poet with whom Cherkovski was close, but he mostly talked about Hank, which was fine with us.

Angry Bob

David Hornbuckle Interviews New York comedian Angry Bob.

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The Cabbies

Blowdryer interviews three former cab drivers about their experience kicking people out of cabs. First is Phil Ford, a San Francisco cabbie who had three rules for his customers, and one customer broke all three instantly. Joe Donahoe also used to drive a cab in San Francisco and tells about one of his most memorable kickouts. Finally, a Dallas cab driver who preferred to remain anonymous tells about a customer that just made him uncomfortable, and his instincts turned out to be correct.

Reverend Jen Miller, part 2

In this episode, Reverend Jen Miller talks about some of her adventures with the Dance Liberation Front (DLF), a group she started with Robert Prichard and other friends to protest Rudy Guiliani’s aggressive enforcement of New York’s cabaret laws. These laws prohibit people from dancing in bars unless the bar obtains an expensive and hard-to-get cabaret license from the city.

At the end of the episode, Prichard adds some details to Rev Jen’s story about when the DLF visited the Cuban embassy.

Reverend Jen Miller, part 1

Blowdryer interviews New York Lower East Side icon Reverend Jen Miller, Patron Saint of the Uncool, Sex Symbol for the Insane. Part 1 of 2, in which Miller discusses going to FAO Schwartz dressed as Doo Doo, the fifth teletubby, and performing her musical Rats outside the theater where Cats was showing.

Kelly Beardsly

Kelly Beardsly is a substitute school bus driver in San Francisco. Here, Beardsly tells about getting three kids 86ed from the bus.

Stephanie Sabelli

This one is a video! Comedian Stephanie Sabelli talks about being 86ed from bars and about trouble customers when she herself worked as a bartender.