I think this is from the RON LINK production of my GEORGIE PORGIE in which Andy Warhol said to Ron, “Why did he write this play?”

OLD-OLD AGE BULLETIN: I woke up this morning feeling like gangbusters.  After Marlene gave me a bath I went down the hallway on my walker with the queer flag but when I got back to my apartment my right leg–well–it almost collapsed a couple of times and I felt dizzy.

On Sunday  I went to ROSS DEPARTMENT STORE on Market and 4th and bought some ankle socks so I wouldn’t cut off the circulation in my feet.  A week or so ago, Marlene went to CHINATOWN, bought me four pairs of leg warmers–a buck 99 each. Now my feet are getting better circulation and are warm–warm–WARM.

This is a photo of me when I was in my early forties and a very—very—angry–bitter man who hadn’t come to his grips with his sexuality.

Some comments from friends and readers about some of my posts:

PAUL SAGAN WROTE:  I met Ginsberg a couple of times. He was a rude SOB. “Talent doesn’t care whose face it sits on”–ROBERT PATRICK–PLAYWRIGHT.

CHRISTOPHER DARLING:  Love love love Dinah.  (DINAH WASHINGTON)

MATT KOWALSKI, ARTIST: Went to Louis’ humble yet awesome diner today, on a bluff overlooking the  SUTRO BATHS, with George Birimisa, my favorite radical playwright. Great viedw, great crashing waves, great company!

CAHERINE MOLLER:  I learn a lot about my family history from you on your posts.

AEROFLOT, Russian’s largest airline, discriminates against its gay and lesbian employees as an official policy, according to published reports. Gay flight attendant Max Kupreev decided to organize a LGBT employee group to push for equal treatment of LGBT people by the airline.  AEROFLOT’S ANSWER? MARRY A WOMAN OR YOU ARE FIRED!

SQUEAKIE’S ANCESTORS WERE AT THE COURT OF LOUIS THE XVI. THEY SMELLED THE DIRTY FEET OF MARIE ANTOINETTE AND AS A CONSEQUENCE WERE NOT ASSASSINATED.

OLD-OLD AGE BULLETIN:  Actually some very good news.  In the last two months both of my legs have been getting more painful and weaker and weaker.  However, yesterday, as Marlene (my caretaker) was taking off my socks. I noticed an indentation of the skin just below my knee.  I also saw that the skin below my knee was a dead white.  I thought that maybe  the elastic in my socks was much to tight, so after Marlene bathed me  she found a pair of socks where the elastic wasn’t so tight.  About an hour later my feet and ankles felt like pins and needles but after awhile the tightness and pain left my left leg.  In celebration I pushed my walker with the queer flag, down the hallway.  I had given up walking because my legs hurt so much. However, this morning I walked down the hallway until my emphysema  stopped me.  FOR SURE i STILL HAVE ONE GOOD LEG!

Joe DiGiorgio, to the left, is my artist friend in his loft in the Bowery of New York . To the right is Bill Dunne, who I was “in love” with back in the Nineties.  He died mysteriously. I went to his funeral but no one mentioned how he had passed away. He was a very troubled man.

New York Daily columnist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez reports the TREASURY DEPARTMENT of the U.S. has approved payouts exceeding $5 million for 49 executives at firms that most benefited from the WALL STREET BAILOUT.  The executives’ pay came despite the $500.000 cap established under the TROUBLED RELIEF PROGRAM (TARP). The firms that got the largest payouts included AIG –they received one of the largest bailouts.

No, this is not CANDY DARLING—it’s my baby sister, Easter in 1944. She is playing the oboe, an instrument she hated.

Warhol superstar CANDY DARLING stars in a new Doc. called BEAUTIFUL DARLING–THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CANDY DARLING, ANDY WARHOL SUPERSTAR.  Stephen Holden of the NY Times wrote, “A tender biographical portrait.”  I met Candy backstage at GLAMOR, GLORY & GOLD, An Off-Off Broadway play at ‘Ntonio Bastiano’s Cellar Theater, where my DADDY VIOLET was also playing.  GLAMOR was directed by Ron Link and starred Robert DiNiro who got a kick out of  playing six roles.  Candy was a gentle, sweet, frightened ugly ducking with bad teeth–this was before she became the glamorous CANDY DARLING that we all know and love–her incredible transformation.