Max's Kansas City, Part II

Sorry I haven't posted a new entry in a while. I feel like my psychic energy has been sucked up by too many sources (that probably makes no sense, I realize).  Anyway, here are some more photos I've scanned of some of our favourite and fabled '70's New York City glam casualties practicing their "wretched excess in dandiful duds" at Max's Kansas City...

 

Back room characters:

The Stooges rocking the house:

David Johansen of the Dolls and Wayne/Jayne County:

The two Davids (Johansen and Bowie), Max's regulars in 1972-73. They were both involved with Cyrinda Foxe around this time (although poor David Jo wound up marrying her):

A rather angelic-looking Johnny Thunders:

David pulling pranks on Dee Dee:

Candy Darling, the most glamorous of the drag queens:

Unidentified:

Johnny Thunders (third from left) with some of the usual suspects:

Cherry Vanilla, Leee Black Childers and Jackie Curtis:

Amanda Lear:

Nico and Eric Emerson:

L-R:  Nico, Arthur Killer Kane with Ari Boulon on his shoulders, Shep Gordon and Alice Cooper):

Eric:

Some of the girls (Patti Smith is far left):

William Borroughs with Patti:

Patti's bff, the beautiful photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe:

Tony Pink and Gerard Malanga:

Alice:

Lou, so young and sweet:

Ms. B, glam as usual:

Yoko:

Dee Dee and Vera Ramone (left) and Lenny Kaye (right):

Andy and Nico:

Lou and friends:

Tinkerbell:

Mary Woronov:

Liz Derringer and Geraldine Smith:

Johnny Winter:

Tom Waits:

Debbie Harry:

Good friends Angie Bowie and Cyrinda Foxe. At the time, Cyrinda was fucking David far more than his wife was:

Cyrinda when the Stooges played their homecoming show at Max's:

Cyrinda and David, Max's Power Couple:

Steven Tyler:

Sable Starr:

Sable and others at the Max's Christmas Party, 1975. At the time she was dating the gorgeous Richard Hell, who was rocking his usual sunglasse (it's amazing how many people were wearing sunglasses, actually. This was right after Richard was in the Heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders, Sable's ex):

Photo Credits:

1, 2, 4, 12, 34, 43, 69-72 - Bob Gruen

3, 8, 9, 39 - Danny Fields

5-7, 11, 14-18, 23, 24, 27-29, 31, 32, 28, 41, 42, 46-48, 50, 58, 61, 64 - Anton Perich

10, 19-21, 25, 33, 49, 59, 60, 62,63, 65, 67, 68 - Leee Black Childers

13, 55 - Ebet Roberts

22 - Jim Lalumia

26 - Raeanne Rubenstein

30, 44 - Billy Name

35, 56 - Maria Resnick

40 - Dustin Pittman

51-52 - Lily Hou

53 - Nicky L

54 - Chuck Pulin

66 - Oliviero Toscani

Sweet Success...

The honey is finally bottled. Our bees made us 70 jars! That's quite a haul for some first year beekeepers. We had an exciting and rewarding season as new beekeepers, and hope to have great success with the next challenge our bees are facing... living through the New England winter! Stay warm little buddies!

Jack-O-Lanterns...

Last night, Sean and I made these...
I haven't carved a pumpkin in so long! It was a lot of fun and they look so good on our porch, we may just do a couple more.

Ding!

How did the tall and handsome Joshua Morgan Holden win TWO inflatable monkeys? With help from this guy, of course... Try to contain your envy, ladies, that lusty Marlboro man is all mine!

So, Josh came up from NYC to visit us for the weekend, and after I heard that as a CT native, he had never been to the Big E, I felt it was my duty to drag him there. It was the hottest day of the fair, but we made the best of it, eating and drinking anything that got in our way.

As we wandered around the midway, the men in our group thought it'd be fun to test their strength. They paid the man... Sean had a turn... Josh had a turn... And everyone went home a winner! But not until after we rode this...

Highway Honey...

Last Saturday was our big honey harvest day! I suspected we were going to get something out of the hive even though it was our first year. However, I never expected to get as much as we did. I don't know where they got it, considering our close proximity to the highway, but, our bees collected enough nectar to make us 50 lbs. of honey! Go bees!

The harvesting process was tricky, sticky and fun. I think we did alright for first timers. Some pictures... After we stole the honey supers from the bees and secured them in the garage, we checked out the hive to make sure everything was good. That's me on the left and on the right, my Bee.F.F. Mike, helping me with the harvest. Everything was good with the bees, they didn't even seem to notice we robbed them! Sean would like everyone to know that he is NOT afraid of bees. Now we get that honey...Like a hot knife through, well, wax. Now all that's left is the bottling!