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bottle of five hundred Valiums and watch Herbert's face. The pills were gone in
a couple of days. They finally gave the leftovers away.
Karma later walloped Rasin when he himself overdosed at the hands of Huncke.
There are drugs and then there are drugs, and the mood changed at the Chelsea when
crack cocaine entered the picture, along with its cousin, ice.
ROBERT CAMPBELL
One night, this guy Eddie had been hanging out with Paul at the front desk when
Paul worked there. They were both getting all messed up on something. Now,
because Paul worked the front desk, he knew exactly which rooms were resident
rooms and which were transient rooms, so Paul knew who he could play pranks
on—the tourists. He would phone tourists and say, “Hey man, what'd you come
to the Chelsea for? You want to party down? I've got some ice!”
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I never saw ice except one time. It's like smoking crystal methamphetamine.
I guess it's become a big problem in Hawaii and Japan. It's ten times worse than
crack, which is ten times worse than hell. That night Paul was hanging out with
Eddie. For fun, Paul would call these people and say, “Hey man, I've got some
ice!” So in response to his call, this real witch and warlock who were visiting the
hotel came down to the front desk. They were going to make a porn movie there
the next day. By this time, Paul's friend Eddie was totally wasted, so the witch
and warlock never got their ice.
Thenextday,Paulcomesdownandasksme,“HeyRobert,youmindifIbor-
row your vacuum cleaner?”
“No problem. Here it is.”
NowEddie,afterpartyingallnightwithPaul,hadpukedalloverPaul'sroom.
AndPaulvacuumedupallthepukewithmyvacuumcleaner!Hebroughttheva-
cuum cleaner back to me without even cleaning it off! It had all the puke still in
it and it stank!
I screamed at him. “You ruined my vacuum cleaner!” I couldn't believe that
he had done that. I guess that time I was the one who got pranked.
PAUL VOLMER
Crack really changed the whole atmosphere. It was a bad little plague there in
the late eighties. Once, a guy who was on crack threw me against the wall in the
hotel lobby. Crack and regular cocaine were very easy to get, especially because
of the prostitutes there. It was commonplace for them to be taking crack. My
friend Nicholas (Nicko) Gentry, a rock musician from Sweden, had lived there
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