May 22, 1989
Monday, 10:35 pm

Dinner with Mark and Paul at Passage to India on Seventh Street then saw them again later for drinks to say goodbye on their flight to Australia. The bar was boring and the bartender had his speedmetal tapes on and was rude. Don't know why I go there except that it's convenient.

No reports of Qantas Airline crashes so I guess they are on their 28 hour flight.

My neck hurt this morning so I couldn't go to the gym. Don't know what is causing the pain, can't be nerves but then again maybe it is and I'm too nerve-wracked to notice. Took some Advil and felt good enough to go to the gym in the afternoon.

Good-looking guy with a nice body just losing his fat working out. He ignored me in the gym but I guess he noticed me staring because he was waiting outside on the sidewalk when I left. His name was Tom and he was on his way to work and asked if I'd be interested in getting together later. So I gave him my number and he promised to call. I didn't wait by the phone but I didn't go out, either. Anticipation of the unexpected.

I worked on a watercolor called "Simon's Dilemma (Smashed Again)" that I'll give to Simon and not tell him what it's about. It's a smashed ale can in reference to Jasper Johns' ale cans he made because he said Castelli could sell ale cans as art.

The Sergeant from the Civilian Complain Review Board (CCRB) called anxious to set up a meeting with me about the City Hall action complaint. I made an appointment for Wednesday but want Simon to go and he won't be back until that morning. I'll have to call him in LA to see when he can do it.

ACT UP meeting tonight and I promised myself I'd leave after two hours and did. Hot and stuffy I stood by the door to the courtyard because the smell of perfume was getting to me (drag queens like to pour it on). Mark Kostabi has been booted from the Center art show and talking to Bill Dobbs I think we should do more. At least confront Ronald Feldman and other Kostabi backers about what he was quoted as saying in Vanity Fair.

The guy from the gym didn't call and I remember seeing him in the window of the catering place Indiana on Second Avenue. I could just happen to go in there tomorrow. My new bed is being delivered between 11 and 2 so I'll need help breaking it in.