Monday, July 27, 2009
Media The New York Times Has No Junkie Cred
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Sure, maybe this is just another way to talk about Dash Snow, but in the Times longer view of the troubled downtown artist's life and death, they talked to Robert Mapplethorpe's old lover, Robert Walls (who was also a friend of Snow's) about, I guess, rich junkies:
Mr. Walls distinguished Mr. Snow from working-class addicts like William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke — and himself. “It was like his money never ran out,” Mr. Walls said. “When it came to doing drugs, he could do these marathons for days and days on end. In my day, in Huncke’s day, in Burroughs’s day, when we wanted a fix, we had to go work — we couldn’t just sit around getting high for three straight weeks.”
Working-class addicts like Burroughs Corporation scion William Burroughs, who went to Harvard and got away with shooting his wife, because, you know, he was working class...
Stupid newspapers.
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