I paid for this book!

Never paid to get into a club.

If I paid for a drink it was to make a point. Knew who had the drink tickets.  

Knew who had the party favors. If only it was just to know.

Oh, it as was so 80s.

Should money be spent for a NYC 80s party, it best go into the pockets of Patrick McMullan. Right next to the tiny camera that he chronicled every party worth partying in a decade where the party was it.

From outlaw parties to ones where real royalty held court-- not just the drag queens, Patrick and his itsy-bitsy camera were there. Every diva on the scene knows he must have enough photos to wallpaper all the ceilings downtown. Patrick shares a mere 400 odd pages worth of those black and white, party hardy, been there done that images in so8os: A Photographic Diary of a Decade.

But my favorite Patrick photo only I cherish-- it's the one that he snapped of my idol Audrey Hepburn with me that's perched near my desk.

Let the good times roll.

--November 6, 2003