Thanks to the folks at Robin’s Bookstore in Philadelphia for holding a reading for me. Ray Garman (below left) and his colleagues were very helpful. He has promised to send a recording of the event–which I hope captures the sound of what can only be described as a mini-festival–cheers, applause, horns–that broke out in the middle of my act. (I would like to claim that they were for me, but–but this is MY blog. So, yeah–they were for me. Hell yeah they were.) Right?”
Also thanks to Duane Swierczynski (below right), who gave me a wonderful introduction in which he committed Flattery in the First Degree, saying that when he was an undergraduate “I knew the masthead of SPY like Beatlemaniacs knew the names John, Paul, George and Ringo. . . .So imagine my surprise when a college professor told me, “Hey, you know Jamie Malanowski is a La Salle grad, don’t you?” This was someone saying, “Hey, you knew George Harrison went here, don’t ya?”’ Now students, that’s a compliment. Duane also conducted an interview with me that he posted on his website. It’s up now. 
It was especially great to see my cousin-in-law David McGinley (above), who is a painter who lives in Philadelphia. (He gave me a beautiful print of one of his works as a gift, which is about to hung in a place of honor chez Malanowski .) David and I became friends a few years ago when, performing under the name Keith Primi, he was part of the acting troupe that played in Loose Lips, the Off-Broadway show that Kurt Andersen and Lisa Birnbach and I wrote. David played Prince Charles, Charles Manson, Andrew Wylie, and many others personages, and he was just hilarious. The art world’s lucky to have such a gifted fellow in its company.
I went to high school with David and have been looking for him for the last 9 years. I hope someone reads this and passes it on to him…Its your old buzzer….I miss you! e mail me please we have to do lunch I work in Philly near 30th st.