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After living in NYC for 30 years I have retired to a semi quiet life on Cape Cod, where I have gotten more archiving and writing done in the last 5 years than I did in the thirty I lived in Manhattan.People ask me if I miss New York..I say that the New York That I miss no longer exists so I can miss it from anywhere. I might as well live somewhere beautiful in that case.My new photo book " A Downtown State of Mind" NYC 1973 - 1983 ( Ninety-nine black and white photos of the blank generation of that decade in NYC. With text by Terence Sellers. ) is now available at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/310348 I am also planning a re-release of "Fabulous! A Photographic Diary of Studio 54" and my new anthology " All Bobby all the time" of poetry, essays, short stories and monologues with illustrations and photos by a variety of underground artists and celebrities. Look for all of them here in 2008. And for release in time for Christmas 120 page photo book "Wigstock in Black & White: 1985 - 2005" available in the blurb bookstore at: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/395798 My work as a writer has been published in several anthologies: "Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican poets cafe" "Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and pain from The Poemfone Poets" " The Outlaw Bible Of American Poets" and my hard to find out of print self published poetry books / " Benestrific Blonde" " Rigamarole" " Mouth Of Jane"My work as a photographer has been published lots of places but I am best known for my book " Fabulous! A Photographic Diary Of Studio 54" now out of print but sometimes found on ebay and amazon.com " My Life as I Remember it." At two years old I whistled at the mail man and set a pattern for years to come......At four I danced in the sunshine of our front yard an interpretive dance , to the Gods. The neighbors swore I was retarded..... . At six I told my classmates that I was from another galaxy light years away., Mrs.Jackson our first grade teacher thought it nessacary to alert my parents.By ten Mr.Grady the art teacher was alarmed by the colors I chose to paint with; red,black and purple.In junior high I was considered weird and neat at the same time because I dressed funny and my parents had tattoos and Harleys.My ninth grade report card was all D's and F's except for art and music class. All written reports from the faculty stated "Talks too much..and daydreams.." some things never change.I watched the Beatles arrive in America and decided I wanted to go to England. I saw hair grow over ears and down collars and onto shoulders and backs all over the country. I walked with the first protest march in Washington and every other for ten years and we still have crooks running the country.I sat in streets,cafes,corner bars and coffee houses and listened to the beat of a new generation being born. I went through puberty with Janis and Jimi and took LSD when it wasn't cut with speed or poison. I smoked pot in fifth grade and laughed all day at a fat substitute named Mrs.Potty I dated black boys at fifteen in an all white Klan neighborhood. I hitch hiked to New York from Baltimore with three queens in hot pants, clogs, and long bleached shags at sixteen and blew truckers all up and down the turnpike.I've been addicted to MDA, tequilla, LSD, speed, dope, coke, pot,q ualudes, mescaline, nicotine,sex and the mysteries of the night,all my life until I hit twenty-eight, since then it's only night life and sex.I've walked barefoot on twenty-four hundred degree hot coals and not been burnt. Greta Garbo grabbed me from behind in traffic and saved my life.I've had green hair,blue hair, black hair, red hair, no hair,long hair and all before 1973. I'm happy to still have hair. I've walked Sunset Blvd.,Polk St.,Forty-second, Hollywood and Vine, Christopher,Fire Island,Provincetown, Key West, Bombay, Miami Beach,London,Paris, Rome,Milan,Montreal, and every gay ghetto listed in the book, and I'm still looking for the perfect lover.I've lived as a woman for a solid year and had tits. Thank you. I've dated black men, white men,brown men,red men. yellow men.and several delicious women I've been engaged, married,in love,divorced seperated and broken hearted. I've had syphilis,gonorrhea,crabs,scabies, hemorrhoids,hepatitis,appendicitis,dermatitus, and the flu at least fifty times, and I feel better now at fifty-one than I did at twenty-five.I've spent the last eleven years meditating., concentrating,comtemplating,applicating.educating, investigating,and instigating a higher ideal. I've been a born again christian,a crystal holding new age visiualizationist, a Bhuddist, a Hindu, a Christian Scientist, a universalist, a bullshit artist, a seeker of truth, a charlatan. a holy roller, a shamanistic dancer, a guru, a disciple,and an enigma to my friends.I'm a triple Gemini natural blonde who loves God and takes time out to smell the roses. I've been around the block at least ten times, and I'm ready to go again until these feet won't carry me anymore.I have always believed in the power of love and that the groove lies somewhere between the heart and the genitals. I have never been deliberately cruel and I've never hit anyone with my fist. I hope I never have to.I've been a whore, a saint, a sinner, a healer, a heathen, an actor, a poet, a drag queen, a straight man, a teenage zombie, a punk rocker, a greaser, a clone, a faggot, a street walker, a sky writer, a vegetarian, a teacher, a student, a wanderer, a caretaker, a wild thing, a father, a son. a yogi,and a fierce hairdresser.I've been lost, found, confused, absolved, punished, and rewarded.I've stared death in the face and wondered why not me, yet? I've talked and listened and heard and seen and been shown the way.I've played follow the leader, pin the tail on the donkey, five card stud, and Russian roulette with a silver handled 38. I've lost eight thousand in cash gambling and won five hundred on a bet in less that a minute.I've seen the eye of God, and been touched by her hand. I've seen miracles happen and been disappointed dozens of times.I've been almost everywhere, met almost everyone, seen almost everything, done almost all of it, and I'm still waiting to be discovered. The night has a thousand eyes and I'm a gypsy dancer who's still hungry for more... I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4