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Stephen Moser’s 52nd Birthday Party at Oilcan Harry’s
We consummated another year with Stephen Moser …
The Moser clan
That complicated, guileless, erratic, predictable, generous, greedy, wicked, innocent, witty, senseless, candid, weird, cosmopolitan, local, proud, bellicose, sweet, maddening designer, writer and man about town.
Stephen Moser and Patricia Paredes
Is he our Oscar Wilde? Our Diana Vreeland? Our Perez Hilton? One thing’s for certain: He’s never boring …
John Salazar and Stephen Rice
And that was the case at Oilcan Harry’s for his 52nd birthday party on Sunday, two years after being diagnosed with high-potency prostate cancer, a few months after being arrested for arson, a few days after his name hit The New York Times’ The Haggler column, there he was, resplendent in a fringed jacket and studded with turquoise. It was a smaller party than his last two, but no less weighted …
Jane McCann and Neil Diaz
A recent post on this blog bloodied the water for his haters. They had their say. And some of them might be justified. After all, Stephen’s relationship with his public has always been, well, tangled …
Lauren Smith Ford and Amy Bodle
But I still think Stephen is among the rarest creatures this town has ever produced — someone whom each and every one of us can agree we will never in our lifetimes see again. Tennessee Williams dreamed him. [For those of you counting, this was Party No. 21 out of 25 on this Big October Weekend. Four more posts to go if I last.]
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By Maverique Tongue
October 28, 2009 11:45 PM | Link to this
God, I love this town.