Love from New York

Killers Killers Everywhere is the story of the people in my fine old WASP family who were terrifyingly violent.  In Killers Killers Everywhere Introduction Part 1, I introduced three of them, the adopted aunt who is a multimillionaire alleged serial killer, the three great uncles who were mass murderers and my own father, a doctor who was so violent our small hometown feared he would become a shooter and ran us out of town in a community vigilante action. In this podcast, Killers Killers Everywhere Introduction Part 2, I'll introduce you to my uncle who was a brilliant Nazi hunter and then ran black ops in the CIA, my great-great-great-great grandfather, a marquis who lived at Versailles and was guillotined and an Ivy-league boyfriend who formed a cult called Weatherman and conned a bunch of rich white kids into blowing themselves up. Like I said, I am so proud that I survived.

Killers Killers Everywhere is the story of the people in my family who have killed. I made a list of family stories I could use for podcasts and was stunned to see the sheer quantity of psychopaths. I come from an old, wealthy WASP family. The family has produced a female multi-millionaire alleged serial killer, murderers, mass murderers and a doctor who was so violent he was run out of town in a vigilante action before he could become a shooter. Oh, and a man who ran black ops in the CIA. My Ivy-league boyfriend was in love with violence and conned a bunch of privileged white kids into forming a cult called Weatherman and blowing themselves up. My life has been a dumpster fire and I'm ratting everybody out. I am so proud I survived. 

The Little Old Lady from Dubuque unloads on her two favorite sports stars for not manning-up and getting the jab. She lives in New York City and she uses sports to escape and there's a lot of stuff to escape from in New York and she needs them to PLAY BALL.

I came to New York City in the 1960s, just in time for the sexual revolution. I had the goods, I had blond hair and boobs and that was all I needed. In New York City, if you have blond hair and boobs, your head could be on backwards and men don’t care. They don’t even notice. Here’s the deal. The sexual revolution was a con. The city boys who made it up used phrases like “sexual liberation” and “free love” and what they really meant was “let’s screw around like barnyard dogs.” It was real easy to say “no.” But those same cornfed looks of mine led to a stint with Eileen Ford, the premier modeling agency of the time. What’s it like to be a model in New York? Here’s my story.

This is the story of the deadliest double agent in history and how he deceived and destroyed my own uncle, James Angleton, who ran Counterintelligence in the CIA for 20 years. The double agent was a man named Kim Philby. Philby was a major MI6 operative at the same time he was on the payroll of the KGB. In World War II, Philby taught Angleton the spy craft trade. After the war, he duped Angleton into giving him access to CIA and FBI files, which he then passed to the KGB. It destroyed Angleton.

Back in the 1980s, I hung around a theater in Greenwich Village called The Public Theater, run by a man named Joe Papp. These are my stories.

Jimi Hendrix was a rebel. He didn't mean to be. He was a great R&B sideman but he loved rock and roll. Nobody in R&B wanted to hear rock. Jimi was lost until he came to Greenwich Village in 1966 and found a funky little cafe that loved him. It was all he needed. 

Love from New York is a collection of stories I’ve written about my life and times in New York City, the things I’ve seen and the people I’ve known, the good and the bad, they’re all here. I was a stand-up comic and a Ford model, my friends were a drug-dealing motorcycle gang and terrorists who blew themselves up, in my family, my uncle ran counterintelligence in the CIA and an aunt was a multimillionaire alleged serial killer. Those are my stories and I’m telling them all.