The Price of anti-free Speech

I've been back in New York two days after 5 years in Thailand. Culture shock has been minimalized by my refusal to leave Andrew Pollack's $3 million Ft. Greene brownstone, however on Tuesday I met up with my biographer to recount the circumstances of my exile from the Land of Smiles.

"Come meet me at Lucien's on 1st Avenue. I'm doing an interview with Taylor Meade."

I showed up late. The beat poet had drunk a bottle of whiskey. Adrian was conversing with a young Russian boy with an angelic face. Vlad was clearly smitten with the respected obituarist's infectious joi de vivre.More...

"Meet my new protege. He likes older women."

"They're more intellectual." Vlad was smart in a bookish way. He quoted Rimbaud and purported himself a gentleman. 23 and looking 12. A life ahead of him. I was jealous once more.
"And they like cut cock," a gay friend of the restaurant's owner interjected from behind a glass of wine.

Vlad met the inappropriate question met with a harsher response.

"That's anti-Semitic."

"Anti-Semetic?" I was having none of this. "Vlad, what does a cut cock have to do with Antisemeticism. Lighten up, unless the mohel schobbed off too much prepuce at your Bris. You know it was reputed that the mohel was buried with all the foreskin he had ever cut off?"

Prepuce." Vlad had never heard the term.

"Yes, the foreskin of Jesus." It came for the Holy Bris of Jesus which was supposedly preserved in a jar of spikenard and this relic has passed hands throughout the royalty of Europe. "They rubbed it for good luck."

After this Vlad excused himself from the table and Adrian admonished me for riding him a little hard, however I do believe in the Freedom of Speech unlike France, whose courts are seeking a $23,500 fine against the withered beauty, Brigitte Bardot for inciting anti-Muslim hatred in her letter to the then Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkosy accusing the nation's #1 minority of destroying French Culture by not listening to Johnny Hallyday or eating crepes.

Maybe Vlad can help her with this problem. After all he has a thing for older women.