When I was 12 I sat my parents down and told them that I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I would be a writer. My mother shrieked and my father shot up from his chair and yelled.

They were horrified. I’ve been horrifying parents ever since.

I started a tax-exempt performing corpopration, Monster In The Closet, Inc., at 23. We ran hundreds of shows in Brooklyn. .In 1974 we ran one of the first Gay Poetry Festivals,. We had Sun Ra play a concert for us in the Central Park bandshell. It drew over 10,000 listeners..

We brought poets into every high school in the five boroughs. We had: Bob Holman, Pedro Pietri, Alex Caldiero and Barbara Holland.

We had a radio shiow, The Absence of Silence, on WNYC for 4 years. Interviewing John Cage, Stan Lee, Henny Youngman, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Eubie Blake.

I joined a dada art/punk band, N.DODO band, and we played the Metro area for 4 years. We played CBGB, Max’s Kansas City, Tier3, Great Gildersleeves, Red Fox Inn,

I raed poetry at Viridian Gallery, Club 57 and St. Marks Church.. In 2017 I joined an art website, ELLO. There I posted writing and photographs. In 4 1/2 years I had over 2,500,000 views until its demise in 2022.

I wrote 4 novels over 25 years. All researched and based on what I knew.

Played in a band Worked as a Garbage Man in New York, Been a wrestling fan since the 1950’s and have twenty something years familiarity with 12 Step Rooms.