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Ghost Club

The next time you're in the 190st street A train's elevator - if you're alone and have some time to kill and have a flashlight on hand - wait for the doors to close and press both the up and down buttons. The cab will go only go halfway up the shaft and pause for 30 seconds. If you hit the up button twice - like a double click - the doors will open and you will find yourself in a short hall. There is no lighting, so trust me: to your left is the coat check room. To your right is the reception area. The door has rotted off its hinges and has been replaced with a heavy velvet curtain since the fifties. As you go into the L-shaped corridor, light is faintly sensed through a series of small glass blocks - you may feel the breeze and sense the presence of a huge acoustic space. You are in the legendary Monastery, an almost completely untouched and unmolested speakeasy from the twenties. In the dim light you can see that the ceiling goes up for 30 feet, and part of the dance floor is still there. The last time the Monastery was booked was for a cast party for OH! CALCUTTA's third anniversary, so you may not think of it as being so ancient, but the last time before that was for a smoker for JFK. It's very inconvenient to get there, and the Cloisters, to which it also connects via a dumbwaiter, supplies the electricity - they have cautiously removed the fuses for that electric line.

But the real reason for its unpopularity - and the key to its preservation - lies in the grisly reliquaries on view in the dusty glass cases lining the western wall - where they would be gradually illumined at dawn's light. Taken from overstock in the Rockefellers' (Cloister's) collections, the saintly bones were unceremoniously dumped out and the bejeweled, golden coffers were filled with remnants of departed partygoers as an even more morbid momento mori.

Here is Katie J. Wall's left hand, cut off after her grisly death by taxi - still wearing the fabuolous emerald bracelet given to her by her unlucky suitor Terrence Bickinger, publisher of The Weekly Doings, the private newsletter of "the most upper crust."

Here is the razor which comedian Bill "Papa" Banes used to cut his throat.

Here are a few teeth and a broken pair of eyeglasses: reminders of Louis van de Brossel's violent end in a fatal Belgian knockover.

Here, a hank of long blonde hair - dark at the roots - that was the last remnant of Millie Riggs, retained by her loyal friend Patsy deBeers who was holding it as Mille despondently jumped out the window of the Easton Terrace Hotel.

And here, little Jojo, the toy poodle she loved and landed on, now revealing the hasty taxidermy job performed by her devoted dresser, Nina Golden, who was later married to Herschel Bernardi for a week.

But pass these exhibits and come to the saddest of them all: the glass tombs of Rachel de la Croix, who seems not to have aged a day since she was sealed up almost sixty years ago. Rachel, who was imported from Brussels for a limited dance tour in 1922, stuck around in town for years, entertaining the Belgian dives in the 180's (the "upper eighties"). The poor dear choked herself on an improvised cocktail olive, and nobody noticed until the next day. Rather than reveal the location of her demise, she was pickled on the spot in a a pair of handy Jeroboams - for Rachel was a dwarf, only 18 inches tall!

Say, isn't the flashlight battery starting to go dead?

A picture of a Ghost Club Reliquary




Accompanied by Bulgarianmafia.com Kamen we strutted up Canal Street on a mission!

Acting As~If we did our thing @ the door and met the Subliminal Man Fernandez and introduced WhisperingSlim.com

We Sublimed into the club faster than Strontium fluoressing!

Gulped off New Yorks main~drag we were jettissoned into this bat~cave of debauchery & House~music and dominican republic supamodels.org!


Out of the Artic and in2 the Sauna, the Suppa~Charged Bass~Line dronned like an IRA Chinukk Kopter bombing New Scotland Yard!

Fernandez and his posse are orchestrating the New York Sublinal Rennaissanse!


Danny Tenaglia was tearing up the dance floor like a like a Texan sand~storm as exotica~erotica.net Dominican Republic divas girated like lap dancing queens on speeed!
Gorgeous New Yorkan Supamodels.org meandered thru the underworld labrynth, BASE~LINE bekkoned us to the VIP suite like children 2 a Hershey Bar!

Deep Soulful New~Yorkan House a la carte ripped thru the joint like like the New York Giants on a touch~down BLITZ! Faster than a 5.7L Trans Am racing thru Harlems Suger~Hill district ! Hypmotized Orgasmic~house revellers jived seductively 2 the beat.


Lennox~Lounge Lorna was in the house causing an explosive stir as her sleak shades rainbowed the strobe~lights, shimmering like the Northern~Lights!

Havana~Klub Koktails on Artic~Ice quenched the desert parched revellers as the wind~tunnel blaster fans momentarilly chilled the scorched~inferno!


Respek 2 the man Fernandez and The GIANT Teneglia for this Christmas New Yorkan House Treat!

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Break~Beat dancers body~popped like an electric pulse thru circuit board as the house music intravenously flowed!

Suppa chic New Yorkan Divas.com belly~danced thru the sea of flesh like catwalksuppamodels.org Ohhhhh M8 wouldn't mindabitovthat . org !whilst salivating toothless jackels looked on in disbelief!

This virtual ecstatic path halted @ 10am. Exiting Club Vinyle INTENSE Solar~Rays blinded the retina as we made our way thru the urban matrix 2 the L train takin us back 2 our Brooklyn hide~out !

WHAT A NITE of monstrous propportions!



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Bewildered and intrigued and as stiff as a plank, I stepped off the infamous greyhound bus, from San Francisco, into the hot clammy Louisiana New Orleans embarccadero. Mardi Gras was in full swing. Raw Drum, Base trumpets & horns melodicaly droned from the Endymionn and Zulu parades. The atmosphere was "POWERGEN ELECTRIC"!

Good Lord there is a God, gorgeous women clad in sequines and beads jived to the warped Base~line pumping from the urban ghetto sound systems.

Momentarily hypmotized, men perched precariously on wrought iron terraces, hurled their beads in a bid to attract the Carnival Queens attention!


The "End of the World CirKus" were in the flesh @ the grand Audobon Hotel, a sleazy,seedy underworld nocturnal den for pimps hustlers and whores on St Charles Av. Patrick Shannon, on a wild tropespheric buzz, beckoned the next act to Shock~Wave the masses.

Yfat & Rahel, the stoosh Isreali hot cats looked on in looked on as Forest (in on the act) flew around the floor in a hopless bid 2 censor the freak show.I felt prickly feet of excitement race up my spine as Danny Teneglia tore up the Dance Floor with Deep Chicago House. Content I grinned widely I could get used to the vibe of New Orleans! >;)%==;

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#000000What is Mardi Gras?
The observance of a "Carnival" (aka Mardi Gras) before the Lenten period (a Christian symbolic penitence from Ash Wednesday to Easter) is not new. It originated in the middle of the second century in Rome when the Fast of the 40 days of Lent was preceded by a feast of several days during which time participants delivered themselves up to voluntary madness, put on masks, clothed themselves like spectres, gave themselves up to Bacchus and Venus and considered all pleasure allowable.
The name carnival is derived from the Latin Caro, Carnis, flesh, and vale, farewell (according to Ducange, from the Latin denomination of the feasts of the Middle Ages, carnis levamen, solace of the flesh), because at that time people took leave of flesh. The carnival of the modern world is nothing more or less than the Saturnalia of the Christian Romans who could not forget their pagan festivals. From Rome, the celebration spread to other European countries and finally to America. Carnival is still observed in many American cities but certainly not with the glamour and grandeur that is attendant to the New Orleans carnival which had its birth in 1827, when a group of students, recently returned from school in Paris, donned strange costumes and danced their way through the streets. The students got the idea for their Mardi Gras revelry from the celebrations they had experienced in Paris.

New Orleanians caught the enthusiasm of the youths and from 1827 to 1833. Mardi Gras each year saw more and more revelries, culminating in an annual Mardi Gras ball. In 1833 Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville, a rich plantation owner, solicited large amount to help finance an organized Mardi Gras celebration. It was not until 1837 however, that the first Mardi Gras parade was staged. The first description of a Mardi Gras parade is of a single float in 1839 which was a crude thing, but a great success. It is reported that the float moved through the streets while the crowd roared hilariously. Since then Mardi Gras in New Orleans has been a definite success. It continued to grow, with additional organizations participating each year until the Carnival as we know it today was the result.

There is no celebration in the world which is as much misconstrued as the New Orleans Mardi Gras. Laboring under a misconception, the vast majority of people outside of New Orleans believe that the New Orleans Mardi Gras is a celebration spreading over a period of a few days just before Ash Wednesday. In reality the New Orleans carnival is similar to the Fasching of Germany which begins on the twelfth night after Christmas and continues until Shrove Tuesday. The expression Mardi Gras is from the French, meaning Fat Tuesday."