Slog - Comments on Still Horny After All that Howling http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al Why are some straight guys so worried that a gay guy is going to jump them? Maybe because of Allen Ginsberg. Below Andrew Bleeker's takedown of the popular poet on the books page this week—it's the 50-year anniversary of the publication of Howl, and lots of books have just been published to capitalize on the moment—don't miss Brendan Kiley's anecdote about getting hit on by the 68-year-old Ginsberg. Here's another anecdote from another straight guy, Stranger contributor Chris McCann. He says: I was interviewing Robert Creeley for my senior thesis and Ginsberg rolls into the room, all jowls and slobber... Copyright 2008 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:15:24 -0800 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:51:52 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by No Y Chromosome Oh the horrors, getting hit on inappropriately by a man. *rolls eyes* Straight men like it as much as we do. Go figure.

]]> No Y Chromosome http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c522950 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c522950 Arts Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:30:37 -0800 Comment by bill A tip for you book collectors: if you ever see an autographed copy of a Ginsberg book where he signs it merely "Allen," that means he had sex with the person for whom he signed the book. Check out his "last" poem, "Love and Fame," published in the New Yorker after his death, for more on his predeliction for queering straight boys.

]]> bill http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c522956 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c522956 Arts Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:40:10 -0800 Comment by bill Correction: the last poem was "Death and Fame." Death, love, whatever.

]]> bill http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c522957 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c522957 Arts Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:40:47 -0800 Comment by bing a high school friend of mine was hit on by ginsberg at a camp in silver bay, NY, 1992.

]]> bing http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c522958 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c522958 Arts Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:41:47 -0800 Comment by Mark Mitchell Good for Ginsberg. He wasn't afraid to be a dirty old man.

]]> Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c523336 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c523336 Arts Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:23:56 -0800 Comment by let's get some shoes At one time not too distantly in the past, the smaller club would have been comprised of the young men who hadn't been hit on by Ginsberg.

These days, what with all things being modern and hi-tech, the new notoriously dirty old man is Richard Stallman, of debatable fame in the Open Source software communities. If it has a pulse he's probably tried to grope it.

]]> let's get some shoes http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c523707 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c523707 Arts Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:19:37 -0800 Comment by David Summerlin I have a "Collected Poems" with that same "Ah" with a circle around it from the '94 tour, except I got mine in Houston.

He told me the "Ah" was a mantra he was giving me.

]]> David Summerlin http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c523732 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c523732 Arts Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:14:05 -0800 Comment by XX Is Christopher Frizzelle straight?

Yay!

]]> XX http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c533842 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/still_horny_after_al#c533842 Arts Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:51:52 -0800