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Are you Crazy? NYU’s Online Sanity Test

Written by Jim Knipfel on October 26, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

That’s why I was so surprised when, after honestly answering 10 simple multiple-choice questions–questions like, “Do you feel that things always go or will go wrong no matter how hard you try?” (Answer: “Most of the time”), my computer-generated psychiatric evaluation came up screaming, “My God, man! Get yourself locked up before you do any
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Hartford: Land of the Dead

Written by Jim Knipfel on October 12, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"I can handle this," I thought, as I reached street level. So I left my cane folded up in the bag. The thing I didn’t account for was the fact that, while there was still light in the distant sky, none of it was reaching down to the sidewalk. "Yeah, I can make this," I
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Ben Katchor’s Comic Opera

Written by Jim Knipfel on October 5, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Three years ago, after a Bang on a Can festival in Italy, BOAC’s three founders–composers Gordon, Lang and Wolfe–were approached with a commission. The idea was for the three of them to collaborate on an opera–the only major stipulation was that it be something very American, very New York. The three decided that there wasn’t
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Sin Eruptions

Written by Jim Knipfel on September 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

I’m not. I’m not crazy. Believe me when I say that. These people are sorely mistaken. Still, though, I’ve been getting a lot of strange looks lately when I start telling people about these weird, lumpy, fleshy eruptions I’ve been experiencing on my body. Maybe they’re all just looks of disgust or "why must he
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When Appliances Attack

Written by Jim Knipfel on September 14, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

I got home about 7:30 Monday night. It was a foul one outside. I had a few in me and my body was still struggling to acclimate itself to a new brain medication. Things were a little shaky. I closed the door behind me, dropped my bag on the bench, kicked my shoes off, waved
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Just Passing Through

Written by Jim Knipfel on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

By the time I get back home, whether it’s an hour later or 15 minutes, those same crushing walls welcome me like a warm hug. I live in a very pleasant neighborhood in Brooklyn. I don’t deny that–when I first moved here all those years ago, I made a conscious decision that I no longer
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Lesser of at Least Two Evils

Written by Jim Knipfel on August 18, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

He listened to me gripe for a bit, listened patiently from behind his desk as I described what was happening, then handed me a box filled with samples of a new drug. “Try this,” he said. “Take your other drugs as usual, but take this one at night instead. And only take it at
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Punk Madman GG Allin

Written by Jim Knipfel on August 4, 1999. Posted in Posts

“I knew who he was. I knew what he did. I’d never been to one of his shows. I really wasn’t a fan,” Cohen said, when I asked how familiar he’d been with Allin at the time. “I wasn’t put off by it, but it was nothing that I’d want to see in person, unless there were safeguards.” Cohen
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Fellini Visits Brooklyn

Written by Jim Knipfel on July 21, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Fellini Visits Brooklyn I was walking east on Carroll St. at about eight on a Sunday morning when two uniformed cops got out of an unmarked car in front of me. “First thing we do is go to the church,” one of them said, “and we’ll trade them some tvs for golf clubs.” “Sounds good,” the other policeman said, before
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Coming Out & Turning 50

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Richard’s going to be 50 in a few weeks. Two years ago, after someone called and offered him a new job in a new town, his life started to twist in strange and unexpected directions. “I got those calls pretty often because I’m pretty high profile in the industry I’m in,” he tells me. “But I always just said
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