First light. 6am sitting in the back if the Music Express limo riding out of Kennedy Airport, fresh off the plane from Buenos Aires. Pink cloud whisps in the first faint blue sky of a Monday morning rush hour are my first impressions as I arrive in NYC after all these months and years. And […]
read moreUncategorized
Argentine society and social philosophy seems to be typified and defined by all sorts of small details one sees all day long on the streets of Buenos Aires. Like the way people cut you off in traffic, then slow down just for the fuck of it, or the insanely egotistical habit people here have of […]
read moreI was in Sao Paulo on business. I’d just sold an eighteen page cover story to Trip Magazine, the pulse of Brazilian pop culture. I’d just gotten paid, so I’d called my cousin Theo who lived in Sao Paulo to join me for a night on the town before going back to Rio. The night […]
read moreSitting outside the first whorehouse in Vila Mimosa. The same place, I remember, where Samanta used to work, where I first saw her standing out front one distant summer night and couldn’t believe such an exquisite creature was possible; when she was still young and bratty and sassy and full of insane young sex attraction, […]
read moreFrom Brazil’s Revista O Globo. Click Photo to view article.
read moreIt had been a pretty good night after a sunny day on the beach, crashing around in the warm summer waves of Copacabana. I’d ended it up with a nice sweaty hour long fuck session with one of my favorite whores in Vila Mimosa. After kissing my little friend goodnight, I walked around the zona […]
read moreAn Open Letter to Voters of All Parties. By Jonathan D Shaw All candidates are liars on both sides of the sham Two Party System. It’s what they do. Democracy is a lie. Your vote is a sham. Key decisions are made in secret. The two party system is a GAME of distraction designed to […]
read moreANOTHER OPEN LETTER TO WRITERS AND ARTISTS By Jonathan D Shaw I feel compelled to add a little addendum to my previous Open Letter. While I’m always willing to help other writers and share freely of what I have found trudging my own stumbling path, time constraints for a working writer are a real concern. […]
read moreAN OPEN LETTER TO WRITERS AND ARTISTS: by Jonathan D Shaw Over the last decade since I retired from the whorehouse of commercial art as a ”world famous” celebrity tattoo artist to dedicate my efforts full-time to long-neglected literary pursuits, I’ve asked a good many well-known fellow writers and artists to write blurbs for my […]
read moreI looked around in disgust at a shadowy Carnaval nether-world of lazy dangerous savages. And there I was right in the thick of it again… what else can I do? I gotta kill some more time in this stinking human stew, gotta wait some more for Narcisa to come down… I got off the bike and […]
read more