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Bit of an Old Bull Lee parody this month:

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Great story(ies) Philip. I'll sit down with them this evening and this weekend.

I haven't read Kerouac, so I had to look up the reference, and found this: Old Bull Lee

I just picked up On the Road from the library yesterday, but my reading stack is so huge right now.

Meeting Herr Mann looks fun! What's your inspiration for that?

Leslie wrote: I haven't read Kerouac, so I had to look up the reference, and found this: Old Bull Lee

Old Bull Lee was the name Kerouac gave to Burroughs in "On The Road". In fact, Burroughs often called himself Lee, and it may have been because of John Lee, the so-called Man They Couldn't Hang, but I'm not sure. John Lee was an English murderer, who three times went to the gallows and each time the mechanism failed, the trap door didn't open. They had to commute his sentence to Life imprisonment.

Meeting Herr Mann looks fun! What's your inspiration for that?

A gay friend of mine took me to a party in Brixton one Saturday night - this is 30 odd years ago - and on the way, I supposed as a ploy to getting inside my pants - tried to persuade me I'd be bound to get off with a girl there if I pretended to be gay. Apparently they would be falling over each other. As it happened, I noticed several rather camp looking blokes there merrily chatting up women. I didn't have the bottle. Perhaps that would have made a better story? But, a few years before then, I had lived just a hundred yards from one of London's biggest drag queen venues. We went in there one night and found half the crowd were women. It wasn't just the gay scene we had always thought. Anyway, I was in a relationship at the time and wasn't out to meet anyone. I coyly stood at the bar and just watched the show. So it's a kind of what-if story, with characters drawn from real life. The late 70s to early 80s were crazy times in London and I have nostalgia for them.

Philip wrote: "Leslie wrote: I haven't read Kerouac, so I had to look up the reference, and found this: Old Bull Lee

Old Bull Lee was the name Kerouac gave to Burroughs in "On The Road". In fact, Burroughs ofte..."

I almost feel like I need to buckle up when I ask you for a story, Philip (that's the fun of it)! :D

Reminds me of a very late night drive home through San Francisco. That city turns into an all together different creature at night. Not scary, just wow!

A gay friend of mine took me to a party in Brixton one Saturday night - this is 30 odd years ago - and on the way, I supposed as a ploy to getting inside my pants - tried to persuade me I'd be bound to get off with a girl there if I pretended to be gay.

Some friend!

Paul Martin wrote: "A gay friend of mine..."

Some friend!

He was pretty outrageous. It was before anyone had ever heard of AIDS and, like I say, anything went.

Leslie wrote: feel like I need to buckle up when I ask you for a story, Philip

MRaU. I need to work on my one-liners.

Leslie wrote: "Great story(ies) Philip. I'll sit down with them this evening and this weekend.

I haven't read Kerouac, so I had to look up the reference, and found this: Old Bull Lee

I just picked up On the ..."

On the Road! That will make you feel as if you are also on dexedrine, I loved it.