This is probably news to no one, but for some inexplicable reason, I was blithely unaware of it. “Please Kill Me” by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain – a.k.a. my favorite book of all goddamn time (eclipsing even geekier titles like “The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury and “Low-Life” by Luc Sante), has its own web presence, featuring news, stories and profiles and pictures and all sorts of neat-o stuff (and, of course, you can indeed buy yourself a “Please Kill Me” t-shirt.) If you’re as big a sniveling fanboy of this book as I am, you need to go check it out with the quickness.
I’ve mentioned it in passing here before, but I had the distinct pleasure of working with Legs McNeil back at SPIN in the balmy days of 1989 (a saga I tried to encapsulate here). I’ve run into him here and there over the years, and he always gamely pretends to remember me (c’mon, I was an intern… I’d have forgotten me too!) In any case, the man's a living legend, so go check out his site.
The picture above, meanwhile, was snapped of m'self and my daughter Charlotte back in 2007 at the Two Boots Pizza over on West 11th Street. I coveted their autographed "Please Kill Me" poster, and made elaborate plans of how I might sneak it out the door without them noticing. More recently, it seems someone may have succeeded in that venture where I failed, as it doesn't appear on that wall anymore, alas.
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