Roma January 1985

Rome January 1985

Tanino Liberatore and I traveled in his Fiat from Paris over the Alps into Italy. Tanino was the famed cartoonist of RanXerox a powerful android robot the love slave of the underage Lubna. We had collaborated on a graphic comic and were bound to the Eternal City to pick up money from the publishers. We rolled into Rome at night. The city slept under siege from the Red Brigades. He sought out whose on the Via Veneto. They were scared of nothing, having Albanian pimps. He went off into the bushes, while a sat guard in the car. After we went to a bar to score coke then crashed at his friends' apartment watching EVIL DEAD high on blow. scared me straight.

The next day I wandered through Rome; the Vatican buying a stiletto, lunch at Mario's by the coliseum then through the Senate ruins. Sunset up the Spanish Steps to the Hotel Farber for drinks, then back to party with Tanino.

After we drove to Pescara on the Adriatic to see his parents. We went to a freezing theater to watch porno and afterwards sat on the shore of a foggy Adriatic. Bone cold.

He was a monster. RanXerox that is. We were merely wicked when we were young and when we weren't so young too