Roma Winter 1985

In the winter of 1985 Tanino Liberatore and I traveled in his Fiat from Paris over the Alps into Italy. He was the famed cartoonist of RanXerox a powerful android robot, the love slave of the underage Lubna.

We had collaborated on a graphic comic or ban-dessine APPELEZ MOI JOE. THhe two of us were bound to the Eternal City to pick up money from the Italian publishers. We rolled into Rome at night. The city slept under siege from the Red Brigades. Tanino sought out whores on theVia Veneto. They were not scared of un-toting Revolutionaries. The whores were protected by having Albanian pimps.

Parking his Fiat Tanino disappeared off into the bushes, while I sat guard in the car. After we went to a bar to score coke, then later crashed at his friends' apartment to watch EVIL DEAD high on blow. That movie scared me straight.

The next day I toured Rome, the Eternal ; 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.

The next day we drove over the Apennines to Pescara on the Adriatic to see his parents. That night we ate with them and then saw a porno film to a freezing theater made of marble. We were monsters, but we were wicked when wicked meant something.