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Tasteful friends... enter Michael's mussy

It's the lavish New York City apt. you always imagined- and you're invited!

I think he outs himself as the Datalounge Golden Girls troll.

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by Anonymousreply 446January 2, 2024 12:17 AM

And a stealth Meryl vs. Glenn reference!

by Anonymousreply 1April 11, 2022 1:47 AM

He's been working since the 1940s and that's the best he can do? The place is dingy and dirty looking, depressing. He's a smart guy but has zero taste.

by Anonymousreply 2April 11, 2022 2:00 AM

How the FUCK does a single freelance writer in NYC afford a 1BR apartment in an elevator building?

It must be rent-stabilized. He can't be paying market rate, even for that hovel.

by Anonymousreply 3April 11, 2022 2:15 AM

Good God, what a disaster! He’s been working for DECADES and THIS is where he lives? And thought it would be a good idea to invite a FILM CREW?

YIKES

by Anonymousreply 4April 11, 2022 2:22 AM

Does Musto have a bathroom or kitchen area? If so why didn't he show it off instead of multiple views of his living room & single bedroom?

This "showcase" seemed limited & desperate on several levels.

I still like Michael & have watched him since he was on Geraldo back in the early 90s.

Luv the powder blue tie with the sharp red jacket.

by Anonymousreply 5April 11, 2022 2:31 AM

He didn't even dust his VCR/DVD player.

by Anonymousreply 6April 11, 2022 2:37 AM

I feel better about my place now.

by Anonymousreply 7April 11, 2022 2:41 AM

R6 This show must've been super desperate for famous dwellings

to not tell him to dust that old thing for the cameras LOL!

by Anonymousreply 8April 11, 2022 2:46 AM

Disappointing and depressing. I thought this apartment would be packed with memorabilia and gifts from artist friends. Or at least there would be undies from his pursuits on the wall.. I thought he is the male Fran Leibovitz, no?

by Anonymousreply 9April 11, 2022 2:47 AM

The filthy fingerprints on the white front door! Doesn’t he have just one Clorox wipe to take care of that?

by Anonymousreply 10April 11, 2022 2:53 AM

Lavish??? It looks like a place I would have lived in my early 20s full of thrift store junk, except I had better taste even then. Granted, I lived in BFE and didn't have a bunch of award trophies, or any kind of a career, which makes it all the sadder that he's still living like that.

by Anonymousreply 11April 11, 2022 3:02 AM

The whole place looks greasy, I bet there is Gun Oil on every doorknob.

by Anonymousreply 12April 11, 2022 3:02 AM

The black TV stand is an abomination.

by Anonymousreply 13April 11, 2022 3:04 AM

Michael, head to Home Depot, snag a can of white paint, and refresh your front door. $10. First impressions and all that.

by Anonymousreply 14April 11, 2022 3:07 AM

I thought he would live like Andrew Alpern.

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by Anonymousreply 15April 11, 2022 3:09 AM

All those paintings of him. And the dolls. I'll bet his tricks (or escorts) don't make repeat visits. Circa 1960 box with parquet floors--what a cliche and he doesn't make it attractive.

by Anonymousreply 16April 11, 2022 3:09 AM

A black plastic Laminate TV stand on a brown parquet floor. He needs to remit his Gay Card.

by Anonymousreply 17April 11, 2022 3:11 AM

A horrible looking place. Dark and depressing with kitsch-overloaded wall units. Sad. Very sad.

by Anonymousreply 18April 11, 2022 3:17 AM

Does anyone know where this building is located in NYC?

by Anonymousreply 19April 11, 2022 3:18 AM

Here you go R19

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by Anonymousreply 20April 11, 2022 3:21 AM

Murray Hill. they even mention it.

by Anonymousreply 21April 11, 2022 3:21 AM

Meanwhile Rex Reed lives at the Dakota.

by Anonymousreply 22April 11, 2022 3:27 AM

That’s depressing. Double wides in Alabama have more light, luxury, and room.

by Anonymousreply 23April 11, 2022 3:28 AM

He's an Italian Grandma aren't they known for keeping their places immaculately clean?

by Anonymousreply 24April 11, 2022 3:29 AM

[quote]He's an Italian Grandma aren't they known for keeping their places immaculately clean?

No, it's the grandsons who are known for their immaculate holes.

by Anonymousreply 25April 11, 2022 3:32 AM

Surprising that he lives in a boring middle class 1 bd apt in Murray Hill. I would've expected an eclectic place in Greenwich Village.

by Anonymousreply 26April 11, 2022 3:44 AM

It’s bad but I love him anyway.

by Anonymousreply 27April 11, 2022 3:53 AM

R21 I wanted the exact location like R20 gave.

by Anonymousreply 28April 11, 2022 3:53 AM

Michael Musto has lived in that Murray Hill apartment for *years*. At one point IIRC his elderly mother lived with him as well.

IIRC like many others MM found this apartment via a broker, but since he moved in around 2010 or so rent likely was reasonable, and unit may even be under rent regulation.

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by Anonymousreply 29April 11, 2022 4:07 AM

Wait, take last bit back; MM bought his apartment in Murray Hill years ago....

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by Anonymousreply 30April 11, 2022 4:09 AM

R26 et al

Michael Musto likely never could afford to buy in West or Greenwich Village.

IIRC he was living in either WV or GV in a one bedroom apartment that wasn't perfect, but suited; then came a huge rent increase so he decided to find something to buy. This was sometime in 2000's or around 2010, by that time both WV and GV like rest of Manhattan below 23rd street had taken off RE wise.

by Anonymousreply 31April 11, 2022 4:30 AM

Apparently Murray Hill wasn't always so boring!

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by Anonymousreply 32April 11, 2022 4:45 AM

The furniture mystery, from R29 's article

[quote]How did you go about furnishing the apartment?

[quote]I did a commercial for BoConcept, which showed on Logo TV and other channels as well as cabs. They paid me back by furnishing the apartment with three wall units and a couch.

by Anonymousreply 33April 11, 2022 4:51 AM

BoConcept should do a commercial with his place.

by Anonymousreply 34April 11, 2022 6:10 AM

I still love him too. In a way more so. At least, is shows that he didn’t make money with professional leeching or at least spent it all.

by Anonymousreply 35April 11, 2022 6:17 AM

He needs to get some decent curtains and a rug ASAP.

by Anonymousreply 36April 11, 2022 6:54 AM

To echo what many other have said, depressing and disappointing. If my apartment looked like that, I wouldn't let anyone film it.

Hamish Bowles place was much more interesting.

by Anonymousreply 37April 11, 2022 6:57 AM

Much better.

Nobody wants to tour the abodes of the poors.

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by Anonymousreply 38April 11, 2022 7:10 AM

Eldergay nightmare.

Why did he allow this to be filmed?

And what producer wouldn't kill this segment?

by Anonymousreply 39April 11, 2022 7:13 AM

Sad digs.

by Anonymousreply 40April 11, 2022 8:52 AM

I like the bit at his computer where he's updating his Wikipedia page.

by Anonymousreply 41April 11, 2022 9:10 AM

I live in Southern West Virginia, in a 2 bedroom house, and its nicer than that. Maybe he has many other nicer things in storage.

by Anonymousreply 42April 11, 2022 9:31 AM

Were the tacky Italians kicked out of Italy?

by Anonymousreply 43April 11, 2022 9:43 AM

Parquet floors are the worst. Besides being ugly, the pieces dry out and pop up. But people brag about having hard wood floors. Barely. Surprisingly looks like an 80 year old man's place.

by Anonymousreply 44April 11, 2022 10:02 AM

That little tour just ruined my mood, my morning and probably my whole week.

by Anonymousreply 45April 11, 2022 10:06 AM

Pretty standard building like so many others that went up in NYC in late 1950's through 1970's into 1980's. Entire building is nothing but studios, alcove studios, and one bedrooms, sort of building largely developed to house young singles or maybe a newly married couple without children.

This property being in midtown makes it a convenient place to live for anyone working in area, or even bit further east such as United Nations. Subway is few blocks away at Park Avenue South and 33rd street.

Know many people (as sure other NYers on DL do as well) that live in same sort of apartment. Know a few that moved in back in 1970's or 1980's and never left.

As for décor, girls lighten up! Not every gay is some sort of interior decorator Mary. Nor keeps house like Hazel for that matter either. If MM is a slob, he's a slob. Hardly only one in NYC or USA for that matter.

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by Anonymousreply 46April 11, 2022 10:07 AM

Hardly one of our more exclusive co-ops...

"Co-purchase Allowed, Gifts Allowed, Guarantors Allowed, Parents Buying Allowed, Pied-a-Terre Allowed, Sublets Allowed...."

No wonder this building is saved by so many Streeteasy users, and apartments seemingly sell rather quickly once listed. It may not be this building, but other co-ops in area have seen a flood lately of parents of international students (in particular NYU), buying apartments for their children

by Anonymousreply 47April 11, 2022 10:11 AM

They didn’t even show the kitchen or the bathroom. How boring!

by Anonymousreply 48April 11, 2022 10:14 AM

Oh and there are several homeless shelters or service locations in area....

Mainchance Drop-In Center - 120 E 32nd St (open 24/7)

Ali Forney Center - 224 W 35th St

HRA Men's Shelter - 400 E 30th St

by Anonymousreply 49April 11, 2022 10:17 AM

Sad last digs!

by Anonymousreply 50April 11, 2022 10:19 AM

If Sister Parish and Albert Hadley weren't already dead, this would kill them.

by Anonymousreply 51April 11, 2022 10:21 AM

Just watching that made me sad and depressed. How terrible to be in your 60’s and that’s the result.

by Anonymousreply 52April 11, 2022 10:24 AM

Jeezuzfuckingchrist! This is the lobby of the building.

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by Anonymousreply 53April 11, 2022 10:24 AM

So much for the stereotype that all gays have good taste and know how to decorate.

by Anonymousreply 54April 11, 2022 10:28 AM

Lurid digs.

by Anonymousreply 55April 11, 2022 10:28 AM

[quote]Meanwhile Rex Reed lives at the Dakota.

Yeah, what went wrong? MM didn’t play his cards right.

by Anonymousreply 56April 11, 2022 10:29 AM

Has Michael ever had a boyfriend?

by Anonymousreply 57April 11, 2022 10:30 AM

You think it looks bad...it smells like dandruff, kasha, and mothballs...

and those cheap dolls everywhere

by Anonymousreply 58April 11, 2022 10:37 AM

[quote]Has Michael ever had a boyfriend?

Not if you don't count the ones he pays...

by Anonymousreply 59April 11, 2022 10:38 AM

RR was tipped off about that apartment at the Dakota by an inside source . He also was flush with cash (IIRC) from Myra Breckinridge. Most importantly RR bought said apartment for $30k back in 1969 !

Neither MM nor anyone else was buying a co-op in grand pre-war NYC building for pennies in 2000's. So let's wake up people!

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by Anonymousreply 60April 11, 2022 10:41 AM

Seeing as that building is rather fast and loose with who can buy shares, MM probably bought where he could get in....

Michael Musto hardly is flush with cash by all accounts. Like everyone else, he bought where he could afford to live.

by Anonymousreply 61April 11, 2022 10:42 AM

R60 MM has lived in this apartment since the late 80’s/early 90’s. That was his heyday so he should at least have something a little nicer.

by Anonymousreply 62April 11, 2022 10:43 AM

This video makes me scared that this is how I’ll end up.

by Anonymousreply 63April 11, 2022 10:45 AM

Michael, if you're reading this, don't let these mean queens discourage you from crafting your fun to solve Blind Items.

It's been a while.

Your fan.

by Anonymousreply 64April 11, 2022 10:59 AM

Where's the kitchen and bath you say?

There is none. If you want those kind of luxuries, you have to pay extra. This is NYC after all, you fucking rubes.

3K/month for an apartment with cooking and bathing privileges? Go back to flyover land, fools!

by Anonymousreply 65April 11, 2022 11:42 AM

He collects dolls. Yikes!!!!

by Anonymousreply 66April 11, 2022 11:45 AM

This is a co-op. I think he owns this.

by Anonymousreply 67April 11, 2022 11:46 AM

I don’t think he has enough pictures of himself on display.

by Anonymousreply 68April 11, 2022 11:46 AM

One of the few old-school memes we have around here is M vs. G and I've always thought they tended to be better than the other memes, most of which are shadows of their former selves. Now I think we know why!

by Anonymousreply 69April 11, 2022 11:52 AM

Great apartment but lining one wall with shelves and the other with seating is just boring, and where are the stacks and stacks of books? Nobody got rich working for The Village Voice

by Anonymousreply 70April 11, 2022 11:57 AM

[quote]He's been working since the 1940s

I'll have you know that he doesn't look a day over 70!

Seriously, though, I love Michael and I'm probably madder about his unfair Twitter ban than he is.

by Anonymousreply 71April 11, 2022 12:00 PM

A milk crate???

by Anonymousreply 72April 11, 2022 12:03 PM

There’s a moment where you catch a glimpse of kitchen cabinets behind Michael’s head.

by Anonymousreply 73April 11, 2022 12:04 PM

166 East 35th

by Anonymousreply 74April 11, 2022 12:10 PM

Maybe the gay gods of fine decorating can propose an offer to mister Musso a complete apartment makeover... It just needs to be refreshed, updated, aren't there reality shows that do that sort of thing? He always seems rather pleasant, he just needs the right approach. Maybe he's too busy to care, which is fine too...

by Anonymousreply 75April 11, 2022 12:14 PM

Kasha, lol r58!

by Anonymousreply 76April 11, 2022 12:16 PM

My office is not too far from there and I have seen him riding his bike around the neighborhood for decades... So I kind of figured he lived in a boring postwar cookie cutter apartment but I could not have imagined it would be so poorly kept. Particularly since he seems to own it.. NYC apartments need to be painted every 5 years or so and certainly at least once in 10 years... his walls look filthy and have all kinds of blemishes from things he's moved around... Even his "desk" looks filthy... And even the Mac computer they show for a few seconds... filthy. He needs a renovation in there! And then a regular cleaning person.

by Anonymousreply 77April 11, 2022 12:20 PM

The kitchen wasn't shown because that's where his pornstash, erm, "erotic library", is. Every cabinet is full.

(He eats all meals out, like a true New Yorker).

by Anonymousreply 78April 11, 2022 12:33 PM

Who could do a makeover with so many knickknacks and pieces of junk? Remember not too long ago when he said he couldn't get a job?

by Anonymousreply 79April 11, 2022 12:34 PM

I like it. Refreshingly human.

by Anonymousreply 80April 11, 2022 12:40 PM

definitely single from the looks of it.

by Anonymousreply 81April 11, 2022 12:40 PM

Having dirty build-up on a door like that with a deadbolt and door chain is CLASSIC New York City. This whole thing is deep roots NYC, bulls-eye, and bullshitless. If you get it you get it, if you don’t you don’t.

by Anonymousreply 82April 11, 2022 12:48 PM

It's revealing that his only "artworks" are of his own rather unattractive face. And his only books are showbiz-related.

by Anonymousreply 83April 11, 2022 12:54 PM

You'd think a person with so many portraits of self hanging on the walls would have a little more self-consciousness or ego to make his home more [italic]presentable[/italic] and showcase his station in life. But perhaps he very rarely entertains at home, and like a lot of New Yorkers, does his socializing out and about.

Still, way too kitschy and dirty and the drapes are dreadful!

by Anonymousreply 84April 11, 2022 12:55 PM

I've got news for you girls: living in filth and eating takeout for every meal aren't New York things, that's just called "being broke" and it happens everywhere.

by Anonymousreply 85April 11, 2022 1:05 PM

yes, he hasn't updated anything for decades. He is the frugal type. Everything is probably from a thrift store.

by Anonymousreply 86April 11, 2022 1:10 PM

So old school New York.

by Anonymousreply 87April 11, 2022 1:28 PM

If he were truly wealthy he would have bought the apartments next to him and merged units. Not happening.

by Anonymousreply 88April 11, 2022 1:38 PM

[quote]Michael Musto hardly is flush with cash by all accounts. Like everyone else, he bought where he could afford to live.

Still don't understand why he couldn't have saved up money over the decades to buy better furniture and nicer things. So cheap and junky.

by Anonymousreply 89April 11, 2022 2:06 PM

At the very least he could have dusted.

by Anonymousreply 90April 11, 2022 2:13 PM

He does remind me of one of those zany old Benson & Hedges smoking queens who used to have junky little kitsch shops in gay neighborhoods in the 1980s.

Alternately haughty and flirty, they would run a nonstop commentary on anything your eye paused on for so much as a millisecond, punctuated with a frequent "ha!," Phyllis Diller style. "I think Judy Garland had one of those! Ha! Maybe it's the very one." For all the old glamor magazines and Hollywood allusions it was just a shop packed to the gills with tatty, dirty old shit in bad nick and it all smelled funny, bad funny. The deck of cards was missing two queens, the rattan wrapped caddy of six Atomic Age glass tumblers was down to five...

They had an eye for cheap kitsch but no eye for beauty, quality, or condition. A sexier, butcher bunch of sales bottoms replaced then, and replaced their wares with Mid-Century Modern with a small helping of connoisseurship in place of the Borscht Belt Gay monologue.

by Anonymousreply 91April 11, 2022 2:35 PM

[quote]Having dirty build-up on a door like that with a deadbolt and door chain is CLASSIC New York City.

No, it's classic movie or television depictions of NYC. You know, a filthy front door to show how gritty living in the city is.

For christs sake, a wet rag or sponge every once in a while could take care of it. If you have a door like that, you're a slob, not necessarily a typical New Yorker.

by Anonymousreply 92April 11, 2022 2:43 PM

Not only did he buy it, he paid 570K for it in 2008. So he overpaid (only slightly...an apartment in the same line but 5 floors up went for almost 20k less 5 months later) but the real crime is that he's been there for 14 years and this is what he's done with the space.

by Anonymousreply 93April 11, 2022 2:48 PM

[quote] I'm probably madder about his unfair Twitter ban than he is.

Why was he banned from Twitter?

by Anonymousreply 94April 11, 2022 2:51 PM

[quote] He does remind me of one of those zany old Benson & Hedges smoking queens who used to have junky little kitsch shops in gay neighborhoods in the 1980s.

R91, I miss those places. I’d rather have those than the current nail salons and Starbucks that the Sex & the City crowd brought with them.

by Anonymousreply 95April 11, 2022 2:57 PM

[quote]Why was he banned from Twitter?

The first ban was when he referenced Trump calling Megyn Kelly a "bimbo," they apparently decided HE'D called Kelly a bimbo. Then the second time was a response to that crazy South Dakota governor saying no one in her state would get the COVID vaccine, and his response was "Come to South Dakota and die of covid!” He was told that was "wishing harm on someone."

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by Anonymousreply 96April 11, 2022 3:04 PM

Well. That took balls. Who knew.

by Anonymousreply 97April 11, 2022 4:16 PM

I'm in no position to judge, but I also wouldn't let my place be filmed and put on YouTube.

He had the gall to use the word "design."

by Anonymousreply 98April 11, 2022 7:04 PM

“My beautiful leather couch”… time to get your glasses prescription adjusted Michael!

by Anonymousreply 99April 11, 2022 7:20 PM

Well, my first thought was that either he's very cheap or he's nowhere as wealthy as many might think he is. And clearly he does not know anyone with any interior decorating talent whatsoever. That is one of the most depressing celeb apartments I've ever seen. It looks like an apartment in a section 8 building.

by Anonymousreply 100April 11, 2022 7:27 PM

[quote] He didn't even dust his VCR/DVD player.

Worse than dust, it looks like it is covered in dried cum.

by Anonymousreply 101April 11, 2022 7:34 PM

I’m all for people decorating their homes however they see fit and that makes them feel comfortable. But there’s no reason for him to not have at least cleaned beforehand. You can see the dust, fingerprints and dirty walls all over the place.

by Anonymousreply 102April 11, 2022 7:48 PM

Mary!

by Anonymousreply 103April 11, 2022 8:08 PM

The arrangement of seating, theatre style, along one wall facing a mammoth and massively ugly "entertainment center" is so stark. Obviously a man with visual discernment qualifed in the negative numbers.

I've known plenty of people who decorated their apartments with street finds and could or did land in design magazines, and not because they were famous. This is just Lurid Digs stuff without a hint of trashy sex.

by Anonymousreply 104April 11, 2022 8:15 PM

The prissy queen coalition of DL is shrieking on this thread! Simply SHRIEKING!

by Anonymousreply 105April 11, 2022 8:17 PM

A MILK CRATE? Need I repeat myself? How old is this person?

by Anonymousreply 106April 11, 2022 8:22 PM

R62

MM did not live in this apartment until late 2000's, he bought sometime around 2008-2010 after a huge rent hike in his previous West Village (?) apartment.

As for walls needing painting and other major redecorating many New Yorkers who were life long renters (especially those from rent regulated housing), where landlords are required by law to repaint every three years act quite differently once they own (apartment or private home).

In such situations either you do the job yourself, or hire a contractor, and good painters in NYC don't come cheap nowadays. If you want anyone else but a bunch of slop artists (usually illegal alien day labor) fresh daily from Home Depot or Lowes parking lot, it will cost a pretty penny. With on going construction boom in city, and people buying several million dollar apartments or homes, top contractors have their pick of work, and usually are turning down "small" jobs.

Have known MM since club kid days, and he's never struck one has ever being very well off. More like bulk of poor slobs in NYC, busting his chops to earn enough money so can live here more like.

Has it not occurred to some of you that MM is happy not wanting what he hasn't got? At least he owns his apartment, which puts him in a better position than many others in NYC were huge percentage of households are renters until day they die.

by Anonymousreply 107April 11, 2022 9:45 PM

I am pretty surprised. He hung out with so many people, didn't he get gifted better art?

by Anonymousreply 108April 11, 2022 9:46 PM

Another thing, MM's career or just even finding work has been up and down over past decade or so.

Like many other tale end Boomers he's been downsized, let go, fired, or otherwise lost stable jobs as industry he works in has undergone tremendous changes.

We're not talking about some serious Pulitzer prize winning journalist or writer here, but a basically a gossip columnist and "personality" if you will.

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by Anonymousreply 109April 11, 2022 9:49 PM

He isn't living with his family, so I say good for him.

by Anonymousreply 110April 11, 2022 9:51 PM

Even Liz Smith, who in her day was far more famous and or "powerful" than MM didn't end very well.

Also IIRC at some point IIRC MM had his elderly mother living with him, that must have put some strain on his finances.

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by Anonymousreply 111April 11, 2022 9:51 PM

Michael's abode is appallingly humble but I guess I sort of admire he stayed to true to the gutter that lifted him up, a couple inches... You never know. Maybe he has a large retirement fund.

by Anonymousreply 112April 11, 2022 9:57 PM

R112

Hopefully MM has been socking money away, and that would be very smart thing to do.

When you get down to it that apartment of elder gay living in Chelsea (Penn South), isn't that much different than MM's. His walls could do with bit of paint and so forth, but the guy has tons of stuff in his place which I guess cuts some slack with DL.

Another thing, as people get old often their housekeeping tends to slack off a bit. Those lucky enough to afford someone to come in at least once a week or every other are better off. Others faced with daily grind of doing such work themselves usually, well don't.....

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by Anonymousreply 113April 11, 2022 10:04 PM

Oh please, R113. He's 66 not 86. He doesn't need a housekeeper to wipe clean his VCR and computer, especially if he knows his place is going to be filmed. He obviously doesn't care.

by Anonymousreply 114April 11, 2022 10:09 PM

He said that cheap ass mirrored table was from Value Village,so hes not allergic to thrifts .I just dont get how very bland and pedestrian it is.You'd think a retired bus driver lived there. I get that some people dont like "things" but at his age you'd think he would have just acquired crap by proxy. I like him,I always have,but Im sorry,his apt made me sad for him.

by Anonymousreply 115April 11, 2022 10:13 PM

He spent a lifetime in nasty clubs, dive bars, and cheapo restaurants. Really this doesn't surprise me. I agree with above - he is safe and secure so there's that. Did you ever see how downtown demi-mondaine marginals live in their dottage? Often not all that different than at 25, but the grime accumulates, as do the worthless "treasures". Sometimes it's grisly. Rinse repeat in other great cities.

by Anonymousreply 116April 11, 2022 10:15 PM

He looks like he still lives the same way he did during his days of hanging out with Nelson Sullivan.

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by Anonymousreply 117April 11, 2022 10:17 PM

Can his old 80’s friend RuPaul buy him a few new pieces of furniture?

by Anonymousreply 118April 11, 2022 10:19 PM

What makes you think he was friends with RuPual?

by Anonymousreply 119April 11, 2022 10:20 PM

I like the $35 mirrored cabinet. Much better than the sad, shabby black shelving.

by Anonymousreply 120April 11, 2022 10:20 PM

I didn't think it was that bad except for all the pictures of himself and the dolls. It's cool he had people want to do his portrait a lot and he is a famous person but it's a small space. Where's the bathroom and kitchen? I only saw fingerprints, or was that the patina coming off, on the VCR?

by Anonymousreply 121April 11, 2022 10:24 PM

Look how grimy his computer is at the 1:36 mark of OP's video.

The only good thing you can say is he has some self discipline and isn't a hoarder. At least his apartment isn't crammed full of stuff with nowhere to walk.

by Anonymousreply 122April 11, 2022 10:25 PM

God you bitches are so snooty. It’s a fairly normal NYC apartment and it’s done in typical queeny, kitschy fashion with lots of chatchkas and stuff that is not my thing but he seems happy . I like it ,it’s cosy and down to earth. I like the white couch with the lash picture. I like it Micheal and I bet the maintenance is not insane and the area is great to go either up or down, east or west in a speedy way.

by Anonymousreply 123April 11, 2022 10:29 PM

R119

MM and RuPaul know each other as club kids and those around that scene at same time are wont to do; but don't think he's anywhere near friendly enough to reach out to Rue for a touch. Even Lady Bunny wouldn't dare, and they've been frienemies for years.

by Anonymousreply 124April 11, 2022 10:31 PM

This is sort of thing one prefers if one must live in Murray Hill...

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by Anonymousreply 125April 11, 2022 10:34 PM

MM and RuPaul predate club kids by a decade.

by Anonymousreply 126April 11, 2022 10:37 PM

I’m simply going to faint!!!

by Anonymousreply 127April 11, 2022 10:54 PM

Looked like he was getting ready to do a whole house rummage sale from the uninspired way he had all the furniture in the living room shoved against a wall. Miss Feng Shui took a look at that dump and fled like the wind. He needs to take a look at some of Leslie Jordan's videos he does from his West Hollywood 1 br. That's how a self respecting homo decorates.

Frankly I'm embarrassed for him. He's gay so he could and should do better.

by Anonymousreply 128April 11, 2022 11:07 PM

Some people just don’t have it in them to decorate or even clean. I don’t judge. I am one of those people.

by Anonymousreply 129April 11, 2022 11:49 PM

[quote]What makes you think he was friends with RuPual?

They were friends and used to hang out with Nelson Sullivan.

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by Anonymousreply 130April 11, 2022 11:54 PM

Good God that was horrible. A sad, tiny, filthy hallway. Dark and dingy are the high points. Cheap parquet floor. It looks like a college dorm room that a 13 year old squatter stumbled into during the summer break. The dolls are pathetic and the self portraits, well, not pretty. He's an adult? RUN. AWAY.

by Anonymousreply 131April 12, 2022 12:32 AM

Spinning darling.

by Anonymousreply 132April 12, 2022 12:44 AM

What did he do with his money from being an extra in the movie, Jeffrey? Huh? Did he blow it on a Times Square portrait artist?

by Anonymousreply 133April 12, 2022 12:47 AM

I'd check the closets for a Jeffrey Dahmer style sealed drum.

by Anonymousreply 134April 12, 2022 12:48 AM

Oh how glad I am that I know longer have to live in that city or make do with shitty living spaces.

by Anonymousreply 135April 12, 2022 12:56 AM

I can't believe he thought it was a good idea to have a camera crew (some guy with a camcorder) film in that hovel. Christ, Anne Frank's attic was cheerier.

by Anonymousreply 136April 12, 2022 1:00 AM

R126

No, not really.

Ru was certainly around and hanging with what would become "club kids".

I was there and know (or knew for those who have died), so that's that.

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by Anonymousreply 137April 12, 2022 1:03 AM

I guess he was REALLY proud of his doll collection and had to share it with the world.

by Anonymousreply 138April 12, 2022 1:03 AM

If I were a burglar, I’d be ripping the heads off those dolls thinking the old lady that lives here stashed her pin money in one of them.

by Anonymousreply 139April 12, 2022 1:08 AM

Maybe he doesn't make much money from the Village Voice, but the guy is pretty famous, even outside NYC. You think he would be able to capitalize on that. Endorsements, talk shows, etc.

by Anonymousreply 140April 12, 2022 1:09 AM

MM wrote about club kids in 1980's and certainly attended events or clubs where they worked/hung out. He was at things such as Disco 2000, Suzanne Bartsch parties, etc....

MM was not exactly what one would call a club person, he seemed to attend things more as part of what he did for a living than anything else. Like other famous (or infamous) gossip columnists MM would be at a table with everyone who mattered, but again IMHO just didn't seem into things as rest.

You DL queens need to make up your minds. In one thread are saying 1980's was when MM was at or near his peak. Now are saying he is or was totally ignorant or at least didn't know well one of the hottest and happening scene of people of 1980's (the club kids).

By early 1990's it was all coming to an end as Rudy G. began cracking down on NYC nightlife in wake of Michael Alig's murderous adventure.

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by Anonymousreply 141April 12, 2022 1:09 AM

It's no taste as opposed to bad taste.

by Anonymousreply 142April 12, 2022 1:11 AM

In his apartment, I didn’t see his famous poster where he spoofed Madonna by standing naked on the street (genitals tucked between his legs) with his thumb out. It was so skeevey even he couldn’t stand to look at it.

by Anonymousreply 143April 12, 2022 1:13 AM

I just noticed that he has to put the lamp on the printer on that small desk with the computer.

by Anonymousreply 144April 12, 2022 1:15 AM

It shows a complete lack of effort, care, imagination and taste with the most basic of lines, the filthy walls and doors, the mind-numbing cheap junk, and the lazy atmosphere. Is he in hospice? Infirmed? That's not a joke. I have absolutely no respect for him. After all these years and it looks like he just tossed random trash on pressboard shelves.

by Anonymousreply 145April 12, 2022 1:17 AM

He really should watch Brenda Dickson’s WELCOME TO MY HOME to learn how to decorate properly.

by Anonymousreply 146April 12, 2022 1:19 AM

Well, he does have some nice vintage Madame Alexander dolls.

Perhaps he would be willing to take on a roommate, that fellow up in Hudson who fell on hard times.

by Anonymousreply 147April 12, 2022 1:23 AM

I wonder what Bruce Vilanch’s house looks like?

by Anonymousreply 148April 12, 2022 1:25 AM

"He spent a lifetime in nasty clubs, dive bars, and cheapo restaurants..."

Don't knock it luv; had some of the best times of my life knocking about in nasty clubs, dive bars and cheap restaurants.

by Anonymousreply 149April 12, 2022 1:28 AM

Apparently, he took the cheap home with him.

by Anonymousreply 150April 12, 2022 1:33 AM

club kids didn't hit their stride until early 90s. The murder was 1996. I was partying in the East Village in the 80s with all the drags and even the early 80s art stars and performance artists were around, dying off each year. I knew them all from 1980 scene. Every 5 years there was a major shift in what was going on, it seemed. I danced in my tightie whities on the bar at Pyramid and a young but already downtown Famous RuPaul make a crack that good thing I had a pretty face (not a lot of junk in my trunks). Hahaha. Ask RuPaul if he was a club kid and see what answer you get.

by Anonymousreply 151April 12, 2022 1:37 AM

It’s funny that Musto was more prolific than Fran Lebowitz, yet Fran is the keeper of the “old New York” flame.

by Anonymousreply 152April 12, 2022 1:38 AM

R149 I said it from experience too, hun. I was there and had a blast. But moved on by 1990, new scenes, new continents, and new income brackets.

by Anonymousreply 153April 12, 2022 1:39 AM

[quote]Not only did he buy it, he paid 570K for it in 2008. So he overpaid (only slightly...an apartment in the same line but 5 floors up went for almost 20k less 5 months later) but the real crime is that he's been there for 14 years and this is what he's done with the space.

He might have "bought" it 2008, but if he has a 30 year mortgage as most people do, he's still paying for it. And who keeps saying he was loaded? He was a gossip monger in a once a week free NY newspaper called The Village Voice, not a syndicated columnist like LIz Smith. And no one really knows where the incredible creepy Cindy Adams got her money. His VV column was really great though.

by Anonymousreply 154April 12, 2022 1:40 AM

[quote] He was a gossip monger in a once a week free NY newspaper called The Village Voice

The Village Voice was not free until its sad last days. It was sold on newsstands like other papers.

by Anonymousreply 155April 12, 2022 1:43 AM

At least he never seemed to become a drug addict or an alcoholic or a bum. He didn't die. He just has a modest little grubby apartment.

by Anonymousreply 156April 12, 2022 1:45 AM

It's easy, EASY, to pick up a paintbrush, get some decent furniture, break up the room into sections with one or two nice area rugs and wall art, end tables and a pair of lamps, or a cool corner lamp that extents overhead into the room. Was there a coffee table? Maybe a pair of small, swivel club chairs. Showcase the one window with some decent drapes. It's not hard to make a shoebox a home, and not that expensive if you take the time to look around. GET OFF YOUR FAT ASS FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

by Anonymousreply 157April 12, 2022 1:47 AM

He was on The Gossip Show on E! for a long time, but that wasn’t likely a big payday.

by Anonymousreply 158April 12, 2022 1:49 AM

He never made money - and didn’t seem to care about “success”. Which I admire. The apartment definitely shows an absence of pretense - which I guess I admire.

He always struck me as such an odd person to be a “nightlife” guru. Nerdy, unglamorous and not charismatic. No Hedda Hopper or Liz Smith.

His choices definitely wouldn’t be mine - but I admire anyone still able to survive in NYC who followed their passion and made a living,

by Anonymousreply 159April 12, 2022 1:53 AM

He is going in the Valley of the dolls commentary dvd and it’s fun to watch

by Anonymousreply 160April 12, 2022 1:53 AM

[quote]The Village Voice was not free until its sad last days. It was sold on newsstands like other papers.

Hence the sad last days. No one was going to pay after 30 years.

by Anonymousreply 161April 12, 2022 1:55 AM

A 30" TV? In 2022?

by Anonymousreply 162April 12, 2022 1:56 AM

[quote] And no one really knows where the incredible creepy Cindy Adams got her money.

She certainly didn't get much of it from her dead borscht belt comedian husband Joey Adams. But considering that it's Cindy Adams we're talking about I'm more than sure she made a lot of her money through manipulating and conniving people.

by Anonymousreply 163April 12, 2022 1:56 AM

[quote] No one was going to pay after 30 years.

No one was going to pay for the shit writing. It used to be an excellent paper and had a voice different from the mainstream. In the 90s the owner didn’t want to pay for witty, sharp writers, so everyone quit reading it. It’s a shame because it could have been a great voice for young writers in the 1990s.

by Anonymousreply 164April 12, 2022 1:59 AM

Musto wrote for the original Details magazine in the 1980s. I remember that.

Oh well, Bill Cunningham was in his 80s and sleeping on a cot. His digs at Carnegie Hall can be seen here.

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by Anonymousreply 165April 12, 2022 2:00 AM

The lashes painting is just lying on the couch. He didn't respect it enough to bother to hang it. You don't even need a hammer and nails, just get those heavy-duty peel and stick hooks, they're four dollars and it takes 3 minutes. Just plain lazy ass.

by Anonymousreply 166April 12, 2022 2:02 AM

Not this is a jewel for a bohemian apartment in NYC. Editta Sherman. From The Bill Cunningham in Carnegie article linked above.

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by Anonymousreply 167April 12, 2022 2:05 AM

Bill Cunningham! The man needs his own thread, but will say we won't likely won't see likes of him again in NYC. It just isn't possible anymore to do what Mr. Cunningham and some others managed. Cheap digs and working spaces for such creative persons are long gone in Manhattan, and quickly vanishing in outer boroughs as well.

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by Anonymousreply 168April 12, 2022 2:08 AM

MM seems to enjoy the fact that all his crap was cheap in price. It’s one thing to get a beautiful piece at a cheap price but all he’s got is cheap crap of no interest to anyone. And he tries to pass that off as interesting. It’s not. It looks like the inside of an old lady trailer in Mississippi.

by Anonymousreply 169April 12, 2022 2:08 AM

Do not show this video to anyone you fear might be slightly suicidal. This will close the deal.

by Anonymousreply 170April 12, 2022 2:10 AM

For those unware, Bill Cunningham along with others were basically forced (thrown) out of their apartments about Carnegie Hall

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by Anonymousreply 171April 12, 2022 2:11 AM

I would weep for him, but his openness to have photographs shows he is past all that concern about living like an adult or living in Manhattan.

by Anonymousreply 172April 12, 2022 2:23 AM

DL has been telling us all for years that NYC is the best place in the world to live. If a shoebox apartment like this is how one ends up in their 60’s in NYC, I’ll stick to living in flyoverland. K. Thanx. Bye!

by Anonymousreply 173April 12, 2022 2:27 AM

[quote] And no one really knows where the incredible creepy Cindy Adams got her money.

Interesting question. Her parents didn't seem to be rich.

by Anonymousreply 174April 12, 2022 3:05 AM

You do you, R173.

Some people are willing to put up with a lot to live in Manhattan.

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by Anonymousreply 175April 12, 2022 3:24 AM

What? You think other parts of country are some how always better do you R173?

Going by Los Angeles apartments where some poor souls in this documentary lived, MM's place isn't that bad at all.

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by Anonymousreply 176April 12, 2022 3:51 AM

For the record there are far worse, much worse apartments in NYC. Places that make Michael Musto's place look like a slice of heaven in comparison.

Visiting nurses, NYPD, FDNY, social workers, telecom service/repair/installation persons, appliance repair persons, etc... right down the line all have stories about NYC apartments they've been in.

by Anonymousreply 177April 12, 2022 3:55 AM

Michael Musto is probably like majority of New Yorkers; doing all he can to keep body and soul together. His apartment suits himself which is what matters. It is relatively clean, not cluttered from floor to ceiling with junk, unlike that elder gay living in Penn South in another DL thread.

by Anonymousreply 178April 12, 2022 4:01 AM

He needs to set up a gofundme for an interior decorator. I'd contribute.

He does have a lot of artwork of himself but he didn't commission any of it, I don't think. They're all gifts from admirers. I understand why he'd want them around. He doesn't have any of it in the living room. He needs some more artwork for the living area. And it could definitely use a scrub.

by Anonymousreply 179April 12, 2022 4:02 AM

Well, I hope he's been smart and saved a lot of money for retirement because if he lives in a humble, shabby apartment like that and has little savings, that would be incredibly depressing.

by Anonymousreply 180April 12, 2022 4:15 AM

What? So if Mr. Musto's apartment was fabulously and meticulously decorated, in an area deemed more desirable to yourself, but he was dirt poor; that would be better R180?

You're an ass..

by Anonymousreply 181April 12, 2022 4:23 AM

[quote]He needs to set up a gofundme for an interior decorator. I'd contribute.

I actually don’t think this is a bad idea. I feel sorry for this guy.

by Anonymousreply 182April 12, 2022 4:40 AM

No rugs! I wouldn't want to live under him when RuPaul comes to visit.

by Anonymousreply 183April 12, 2022 4:56 AM

[quote]What? So if Mr. Musto's apartment was fabulously and meticulously decorated, in an area deemed more desirable to yourself, but he was dirt poor; that would be better R180? You're an ass..

No, dear. I've never once said that a person should live beyond his /her means. .......... and you're a troll.

by Anonymousreply 184April 12, 2022 5:05 AM

Jesus - I've seen people on welfare with nicer places. No - seriously.

by Anonymousreply 185April 12, 2022 5:10 AM

That couch has more DNA samples on it than Ancestry.com

by Anonymousreply 186April 12, 2022 5:17 AM

I've seen hamster cages that were cleaner and more inviting.

by Anonymousreply 187April 12, 2022 5:20 AM

He doesn't decorate like a person who is living there long term but more like a renter, everything is cheap and disposable, you just chuck it out on the curb when your lease is up.

I'm surprised he doesn't have rugs, usually co-ops have rules where your apt must have 80% carpeting. He must be light footed and neighbors downstairs don't complain.

by Anonymousreply 188April 12, 2022 5:22 AM

A fresh coat of paint will make the place look much better.

I mean, c'mon, you gotta think about the resale value...unless he's gonna retire in NYC? I wonder if he will retire elsewhere...

I bet the kitchen and bathroom are very dated and probably very dirty.

by Anonymousreply 189April 12, 2022 5:23 AM

A poor friend of mine once used old, printed bedsheets as curtains. It looked better than this place.

by Anonymousreply 190April 12, 2022 5:24 AM

Hilarious some of you are looking down on him . Would rather live in that dump as opposed to your Southern West Virginia maisonettes. How fun you all are..

by Anonymousreply 191April 12, 2022 5:25 AM

I dont think folks are "looking down on him" as they are puzzled at such a bleak domicile. I guess because he wore funky clothes and was an "in" person we expected his home to reflect that. Something with flair and personality,what one would expect a lifelong New Yorker to have. Not that bleak hovel.

by Anonymousreply 192April 12, 2022 5:30 AM

<- Hi Michael!

by Anonymousreply 193April 12, 2022 5:30 AM

Truely, he has made NO EFFORT to do ANYTHING for YEARS. It's not that he has to have it all decked out, but the complete lack of even basic maintenance makes me wonder, ahem, what else has been so ignored...

by Anonymousreply 194April 12, 2022 5:32 AM

This video makes me really sad. Is this what I have to look forward to in 25 years?

by Anonymousreply 195April 12, 2022 5:33 AM

I had a better place when I lived in NYC and I was a bartender.

Yikes.

by Anonymousreply 196April 12, 2022 5:52 AM

That would be a smart move. Sell his condo and retire somewhere where the cost of living is a lot cheaper.

by Anonymousreply 197April 12, 2022 5:54 AM

It's shocking a supposedly well connected, night life gay man, who's been covering NY for years, has NO TASTE, NO TALENTED FRIENDS and NO DESIRE to improve his living situation one bit. How lame can he be? It makes me question everything about him. How basic can he be?

by Anonymousreply 198April 12, 2022 5:58 AM

Is he still working? Maybe his monthly maintenance fee is really high and he is barely making ends meet.

by Anonymousreply 199April 12, 2022 6:04 AM

He's worried about robbers. If someone broke in now, they'd assume it's all junk and there's nothing worth stealing.

by Anonymousreply 200April 12, 2022 6:10 AM

That places looks like a shit hole. We wouldn’t be caught dead living in such devastating squalor.

by Anonymousreply 201April 12, 2022 6:22 AM

Did anyone else notice that he doesn’t know how to type? He just uses his two index fingers.

by Anonymousreply 202April 12, 2022 7:19 AM

R202

Big effing deal!

Plenty of men Michael Musto's age do not know how to type. Females are another story, tail end Boomer girls would have been last steered into secretarial courses in high school. That and their lot employment wise likely depended upon knowing how to type with high speed and accuracy.

Plenty of men then and still today cannot type, and use "hunt and peck" to get things done. This includes famous journalists and writers alive and dead.

Yes, some guys too typing (along with even steno) courses in high school, but they were in minority.

If MM's two finger typing offends, then suggest not looking at any young person today rapidly "typing" away on their phone using two thumbs only.

by Anonymousreply 203April 12, 2022 7:54 AM

I’ve always liked him and still do after watching that clip. No, his place isn’t fabulous, but it seems comfortable. Really, his only major transgressions were not dusting before the film crew arrived…and being a professional writer who’s a “hunter and pecker” when it comes to typing.

But rest assured, that Glenn Close dig earned him a decade more of goodwill.

by Anonymousreply 204April 12, 2022 8:04 AM

R203 = Triggered

by Anonymousreply 205April 12, 2022 8:30 AM

It looks fine! He’s an accomplished and interesting person! You queens are total drips.

by Anonymousreply 206April 12, 2022 10:03 AM

WHAT A DUMP!

by Anonymousreply 207April 12, 2022 10:03 AM

You develop that two-finger typing technique as a young gay child. It starts at puberty dialing a telephone with a pencil.

by Anonymousreply 208April 12, 2022 10:05 AM

[quote]You DL queens need to make up your minds. In one thread are saying 1980's was when MM was at or near his peak. Now are saying he is or was totally ignorant or at least didn't know well one of the hottest and happening scene of people of 1980's (the club kids).

DLers, both trolls and regulars, have a bad habit of saying whatever they think makes their current point, without regard to logic or consistency or reality. In the other thread they were trying to say Musto was a has-been, so they said his heyday was the 80s and these days he's old hat and lucky to have a job. Here, they're saying he's famous and well-connected and must have plenty of resources after all these years, so there's no excuse for his apartment.

Most DLers say whatever they think sounds the meanest at the moment. It's not even witty or funny like it used to be, the board is just 95% unfocused and unnecessary hostility with about 5% maudlin sentimentality thrown in for no real reason.

by Anonymousreply 209April 12, 2022 10:20 AM

Tom Hanks in Big said it best for me.

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by Anonymousreply 210April 12, 2022 10:44 AM

The only way it would be better than living in southern West Virginia, R191, is if you got free tickets to stuff. Which he probably does? Did? Otherwise. Being broke in NYC is the same as being broke in Bluefield. If you can't afford the life, your proximity to it means nothing.

by Anonymousreply 211April 12, 2022 10:51 AM

No, R209. The point is that furniture and tchotchkes that look good don't have to cost a fortune. I'm not wealthy but my things look better than his. Everyone knows that he's not wealthy enough to afford a huge apartment in a prestige building.

by Anonymousreply 212April 12, 2022 10:53 AM

[quote] Being broke in NYC is the same as being broke in Bluefield. If you can't afford the life, your proximity to it means nothing.

Wrong! You forget about bragging rights.

You go on vacation, let’s say a cruise. You tell people you are from New York City. Instantly, you become the most interesting person in the room. Everyone wants to hear your 9/11 story. That’s why shows like Friends and Sex and the City are still popular. Everyone wants to know someone who had made it in NYC, even if they live in a closet in the worst neighborhood.

by Anonymousreply 213April 12, 2022 10:59 AM

Well, I wasn't accounting for lying to morons, R213.

by Anonymousreply 214April 12, 2022 11:02 AM

I lived in Mississippi for years and know a couple of people who went to NYC and did better than Musto. It can't be that hard. I think it must depend on your ability to stomach rats and roaches.

by Anonymousreply 215April 12, 2022 11:05 AM

That may be your point, r212, but I wasn't talking about your personal opinion, and it's weird that you think I was. I was agreeing with r141 and talking about multiple people in two different threads and how DL, as a whole, is inconsistent.

by Anonymousreply 216April 12, 2022 11:10 AM

Like another tasteful friends (Antiques Roadshow appraiser) recently featured on here, I would never place the decor to the person. Well....he has a lot of stuff, but it's not extreme hoarding.....and it's organized and neat. It's surprising and interesting what famous people like and how they live.

by Anonymousreply 217April 12, 2022 11:39 AM

I fear Michael will come across this thread and his wrath will know no bounds.

by Anonymousreply 218April 12, 2022 12:02 PM

I'd be shocked if he hasn't read it already. But if he's on DL these days, he knows what it's like, this won't surprise him.

by Anonymousreply 219April 12, 2022 12:08 PM

He’s a notorious, cheap, piece of shit.

by Anonymousreply 220April 12, 2022 12:15 PM

Can't be surprised we haven't heard from him yet. He's been hunting and pecking his response since yesterday.

by Anonymousreply 221April 12, 2022 12:21 PM

Some people aren't into decorating. Obviously, he's one of them. He likes it and seems happy.

by Anonymousreply 222April 12, 2022 12:23 PM

R219 has DL ever been different when crimes against good taste were committed?

by Anonymousreply 223April 12, 2022 12:30 PM

Looks like it will take him 2 days to type up a response.

by Anonymousreply 224April 12, 2022 12:31 PM

[quote]That may be your point, R212, but I wasn't talking about your personal opinion, and it's weird that you think I was. I was agreeing with R141 and talking about multiple people in two different threads and how DL, as a whole, is inconsistent.

It's weird that you take DL so seriously.

[quote] Here, they're saying he's famous and well-connected and must have plenty of resources after all these years, so there's no excuse for his apartment.

Why would he have to be famous and well-connected and have plenty of resources to have a better looking, better furnished apartment? He doesn't. We're not criticizing the size of the apartment or where it is but the cheap, junky stuff he has in it. It looks so shabby and humble and dirty.

by Anonymousreply 225April 12, 2022 12:37 PM

He decorates like a bag lady.

by Anonymousreply 226April 12, 2022 12:40 PM

R215 = Literally retarded.

by Anonymousreply 227April 12, 2022 12:40 PM

R209 really nailed the problems with current-day DL.

by Anonymousreply 228April 12, 2022 12:43 PM

Can you imagine when his mother lived there with him? You'd have to add Grey Gardens to the list of cultural references that apartment represents.

by Anonymousreply 229April 12, 2022 12:43 PM

[quote] usually co-ops have rules where your apt must have 80% carpeting.

Yes, they all do. But it's rarely enforced.

by Anonymousreply 230April 12, 2022 12:46 PM

Dizzy queens typing words on an anonymous free message board about an actual published author, “schooling” him on the condition of his apartment that was featured on a television show because he’s famous.

The mind reels…

by Anonymousreply 231April 12, 2022 12:51 PM

R209, who would know how well Musto's career is going other than Musto himself, his closest friends and his accountant? Everyone else is guessing.

by Anonymousreply 232April 12, 2022 12:54 PM

[quote]Wrong! You forget about bragging rights.

[quote]You go on vacation, let’s say a cruise. You tell people you are from New York City. Instantly, you become the most interesting person in the room.

No, I've know many interesting New Yorkers, none however was ever interesting for having escaped from Hooterville and "made it" in New York, nor for the accident of birth that made him "a native New Yorker."

Too many New Yorkers think that merely being a New Yorker makes them interesting or specially qualified. Living there may provide interesting fodder for interesting people, living there may open opportunities to become more interesting, but it's only a partial list of recipe ingredients.

Would you be excited if you met someone who said with great emphasis, "I'm a *native* Floridian!" or "I live in Florida!" No. NYC isn't special that way either, it's a more interesting place, yes, but it doesn't bestow interest on its residents with an apartment lease or a deed.

by Anonymousreply 233April 12, 2022 1:02 PM

[quote]Would you be excited if you met someone who said with great emphasis, "I'm a *native* Floridian!" or "I live in Florida!"?

Depends which part of Florida. If they said Naples or Palm Beach, I would be impressed.

by Anonymousreply 234April 12, 2022 1:27 PM

You’re really comparing NYC with Florida?

How many songs have been written about Florida.

Despite Golden Girls, writers don’t set many tv shows in Florida.

The Ricardos, the Kramdens, Felix and Oscar, That Girl, Carrie Bradshaw, Rachel Monica Phoebe Ross Joey Chandler, Don Draper, Midge Maisel, none of them were interested in moving to Florida.

by Anonymousreply 235April 12, 2022 1:43 PM

Flipper was set in Florida...

by Anonymousreply 236April 12, 2022 1:45 PM

[quote]How many songs have been written about Florida.

Will Smith had a song about Miami.

by Anonymousreply 237April 12, 2022 1:50 PM

Plenty of songs about Miami, R235.

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by Anonymousreply 238April 12, 2022 1:53 PM

Miami Vice

Dexter

Nip/Tuck

by Anonymousreply 239April 12, 2022 1:58 PM

Her you go, R235.

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by Anonymousreply 240April 12, 2022 2:07 PM

Gurls can we focus on Musso’s complete lack of taste?

by Anonymousreply 241April 12, 2022 2:12 PM

Yes, r223, it used to be witty.

by Anonymousreply 242April 12, 2022 2:16 PM

Michael Musto killed the Village Voice!

It was literal murder!

by Anonymousreply 243April 12, 2022 2:30 PM

People from Florida are just interesting. There I said it.

by Anonymousreply 244April 12, 2022 3:01 PM

Mary!

by Anonymousreply 245April 12, 2022 3:01 PM

You’re all idiots

by Anonymousreply 246April 12, 2022 3:03 PM

Sorry, R227, it's true. I'm talking gay men too, without family money to rely on. And those are just the ones I knew, not to mention people like Craig Claiborne and Mart Crowley. Happens all the time.

by Anonymousreply 247April 12, 2022 5:03 PM

NYC is nothing without its transplants.

by Anonymousreply 248April 12, 2022 5:05 PM

What did MM do to the Village Voice?

by Anonymousreply 249April 12, 2022 5:12 PM

The decor is lovely. It's a f-f-falsity to say otherwise.

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by Anonymousreply 250April 12, 2022 6:45 PM

Michael's mussy needs cleaning.

by Anonymousreply 251April 12, 2022 10:52 PM

[quote]Oh and there are several homeless shelters or service locations in area....

Which increases the likelihood of potential tricks not being scared away by the decor and the perv who dwells within.

by Anonymousreply 252April 12, 2022 11:02 PM

R235, you're forgetting about Surfside Six, starring Troy Donahue! "Who lives there? Young bachelors!"

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by Anonymousreply 253April 12, 2022 11:09 PM

Would any of you DLers that are in your 60’s sleep with him?

by Anonymousreply 254April 13, 2022 1:23 AM

Good god no.

by Anonymousreply 255April 13, 2022 1:30 AM

I kind of want to adopt him. He needs care.

by Anonymousreply 256April 13, 2022 1:31 AM

[quote] Surfside Six, starring Troy Donahue!

Why is everyone shirtless but Troy?

by Anonymousreply 257April 13, 2022 1:32 AM

Here you go, r254. All for you.

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by Anonymousreply 258April 13, 2022 1:35 AM

A cautionary tale for all those young queens getting ready to take the first bus out from Ohio to NYC, you ain’t gonna win a Tony and live on CPW, you’re gonna be rewarded with no space, a dirty VCR hutch and forty two creepy China dolls…REPENT!!!

by Anonymousreply 259April 13, 2022 1:35 AM

For decades he bikes all over Manhattan and was on his feet constantly. Still he had that shitty body. He's an enigma.

by Anonymousreply 260April 13, 2022 1:45 AM

R259

Miss Ghurl please! Transplants from flyover country would consider themselves lucky to land a one bedroom like MM's.

In today's NYC rental market that place would easily go for >$3k per month (market rate unit).

Those living in rent regulated, public housing or other subsidized housing likely are paying far less, and won't be leaving unless in a box feet first out of front door.

Myself and others know New Yorkers who live in one bedroom or studio units similar to Mr. Musto's, and his is remarkably clean and well decorated in comparison.

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by Anonymousreply 261April 13, 2022 1:47 AM

They will find his partially decomposed body in 7 years after 6 months of default payments.

by Anonymousreply 262April 13, 2022 1:48 AM

Do you think he’s ever had sex?

by Anonymousreply 263April 13, 2022 1:49 AM

R261, I know that sounded good in your head but it sounds completely depressing to absolutely everyone else.

by Anonymousreply 264April 13, 2022 1:49 AM

He should allow Kevin Sessums to bunk with him - great way to make that fixed income go further.

by Anonymousreply 265April 13, 2022 1:50 AM

Why the fucking dolls?

by Anonymousreply 266April 13, 2022 1:51 AM

They contain the souls of murdered teenage runaways.

by Anonymousreply 267April 13, 2022 1:53 AM

I think some of those portraits are actually of Elvis Costello.

by Anonymousreply 268April 13, 2022 1:53 AM

I WILL NOT STAND FOR SUCH INSULTS!

by Anonymousreply 269April 13, 2022 1:55 AM

Vintage MM

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by Anonymousreply 270April 13, 2022 1:58 AM

[quote]I think some of those portraits are actually of Elvis Costello.

Are you sure you don't mean Esther Costello?

by Anonymousreply 271April 13, 2022 1:59 AM

Omg, R258. So THAT's how he made extra money when he was young --- hooking! Poor thing. Probably didn't get many customers.

by Anonymousreply 272April 13, 2022 2:00 AM

This guy.

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by Anonymousreply 273April 13, 2022 2:04 AM

Michael Musto is proof that not every Italian or even Italian-American some sort of Adonis like god in looks department.

by Anonymousreply 274April 13, 2022 2:08 AM

"Can you imagine when his mother lived there with him?"

He probably needed someone to split costs with, and only his mother obliged.

by Anonymousreply 275April 13, 2022 2:10 AM

I taught him how to mummify people.

by Anonymousreply 276April 13, 2022 2:12 AM

Why are there so many spaces with all the furniture and other items pushed against the walls? Why so much blank space on the walls?

by Anonymousreply 277April 13, 2022 2:13 AM

Here’s Russell Wilson’s on the other end of the spectrum; ugly but clean:

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by Anonymousreply 278April 13, 2022 2:15 AM

A gay man who is hopeless with decoration. He should turn in his gay card!

by Anonymousreply 279April 13, 2022 2:18 AM

I just want to say I have always found him cute, sexy and of course funny. He’s an elder now, but so am I.

Yes I would still have sex with him.

by Anonymousreply 280April 13, 2022 2:23 AM

R253: Poor Margarita Sierra only has back projection, not even a backlot set.

by Anonymousreply 281April 13, 2022 2:31 AM

Gurl she needs to get her ASS to CB2 or West Elm !!! At least go to Ikea

by Anonymousreply 282April 13, 2022 3:13 AM

[quote]Michael Musto is proof that not every Italian or even Italian-American some sort of Adonis like god in looks department.

But he is proof all Italian men get bad jowls after 30.

by Anonymousreply 283April 13, 2022 3:22 AM

R280 Why don’t you slide into his DM’s?

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by Anonymousreply 284April 13, 2022 3:25 AM

He looks like what would happen if Tiny Tim raped Totie Fields backstage at "The Hollywood Squares".

by Anonymousreply 285April 13, 2022 3:43 AM

Would it kill him to wipe down the greasy computer screen at least once in it's lifetime?

by Anonymousreply 286April 13, 2022 5:10 AM

I cant believe he is bragging about his "beautiful leather couch" which looks like it needs to be hosed down. Dude, get some saddle soap and wipe down that back rest where you sit all the time. It looks filthy. You want to brag about a white sofa, it needs to be clean.

by Anonymousreply 287April 13, 2022 5:17 AM

Even the M&M pillow looked at least 30 years old.

by Anonymousreply 288April 13, 2022 5:19 AM

Leather couch? Surely it's made from some type of plastic. I can't imagine him spending money on an actual leather couch.

by Anonymousreply 289April 13, 2022 5:57 AM

He didnt R289, it was his payment for doing a commercial for a high end furniture showroom.

by Anonymousreply 290April 13, 2022 6:00 AM

Oh okay, R290. That makes sense. Thanks.

by Anonymousreply 291April 13, 2022 6:02 AM

He's still ruined it. Look how dirty he let it get. If he's not going to clean it, the smart thing to do would have been to throw a sheet on it for every day use. Then at lease when people come over it would still look good.

by Anonymousreply 292April 13, 2022 6:14 AM

R235 well actually, SJP is just about to announce her next series where Jewish Carrie retires to Florida, Still Hip, But Broken.

by Anonymousreply 293April 13, 2022 6:16 AM

I'm feeling a little drunk and protective of Michael Musto. Why in hell he invited a camera crew into his apartment, I will never know. Either it's a tremendous ego, or a cry for help, or both. He needs a hug, and a cleaning crew, and some interior decorating advice. I know Datalounge is mean, but this man is a treasure, he has great blind items, it's his bread and butter, and the butter has run out. Can no one care for this man, can no one at least offer some artwork for that big, blank wall?

Help me, Datalounge, you're my only hope.

by Anonymousreply 294April 13, 2022 6:22 AM

So he does a sort of Andy Warhol thang: I'm the most unattractive, nerdy thing in the room but I hang with the cool kids. Except Andy made millions off it and Michael is a dumpster-diver.

by Anonymousreply 295April 13, 2022 6:30 AM

Someone please donate a cleaning crew stat! Also, with all you sill decorator queens in NYC, cut him some slack and do a makeover for him for free. He obviously lacks the gene. Help your elder queens.

by Anonymousreply 296April 13, 2022 6:32 AM

He owns an apartment in one of the most expensive cities and has made a living from writing and being catty. I wouldn't say he's a failure.

by Anonymousreply 297April 13, 2022 6:32 AM

His snarky talk about his place all I see is a smile on his face and crying on the inside. Sad.

by Anonymousreply 298April 13, 2022 6:33 AM

[quote]made a living from writing and being catty

He's more of a mangy ally cat than a pedigree he would like to be. Not butch enough to be a Tom cat. His digs are feral.

by Anonymousreply 299April 13, 2022 6:36 AM

That hideous "golden girl" table in the bedroom with the even WORSE jokey blue bird metal sculpture on top. And he brags, "It's just so ME." Is he insane? Sad, sad, sad.

by Anonymousreply 300April 13, 2022 6:47 AM

I like the bird sculpture. The Golden Girls fan is too kitschy for me.

by Anonymousreply 301April 13, 2022 6:50 AM

300 responses in and nobody commented on the hideous kitchen cabinets that briefly flashed by?

by Anonymousreply 302April 13, 2022 7:14 AM

Can someone donate some nails so he can hang his goddamn pictures?

by Anonymousreply 303April 13, 2022 7:16 AM

I’m guessing he never sleeps in considering he just has those thin ass “curtains” in his bedroom.

by Anonymousreply 304April 13, 2022 7:27 AM

He hangs upside down from the ceiling.

by Anonymousreply 305April 13, 2022 7:29 AM

How awful. And he lines all the furniture against the wall.

by Anonymousreply 306April 13, 2022 7:56 AM

It truly did make me incredibly sad just watching that. If that’s “the New York dream,” you all can keep it.

by Anonymousreply 307April 13, 2022 8:15 AM

[quote]And he lines all the furniture against the wall.

For the dances!

by Anonymousreply 308April 13, 2022 8:25 AM

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by Anonymousreply 309April 13, 2022 9:08 AM

It's the Wallflower Configuration for furniture placement.

by Anonymousreply 310April 13, 2022 10:47 AM

For those that are interested, he's a top.

by Anonymousreply 311April 13, 2022 1:51 PM

Top of what? His game? I don't think so.

by Anonymousreply 312April 13, 2022 1:57 PM

Maybe his life mostly takes place outside of his apartment.

by Anonymousreply 313April 13, 2022 5:11 PM

Bless her!

Wonder why he didn't show the kitchen or bathroom??

by Anonymousreply 314April 13, 2022 5:24 PM

I finally watched the video (prefer to look at photos).

"Curtains": Mon Dieu. That was the worst part of the entire "decor." Looked like bed sheets, as mentioned above. But it also looked like he was using shower curtain rings to attach the cloth to the rod. As a friend, I would intervene on those curtains.

Dreary.

His work / computer area needs some TLC. He must spend hours there and it looks so uninviting and sad. Looks like he types with 2 fingers as well.

I'm guessing that kitchen and bathroom are horrendous.

On the plus side, I did like the portraits that people had painted of him.

by Anonymousreply 315April 13, 2022 5:32 PM

[quote] Not only did he buy it, he paid 570K for it in 2008. So he overpaid (only slightly...an apartment in the same line but 5 floors up went for almost 20k less 5 months later) but the real crime is that he's been there for 14 years and this is what he's done with the space.

14 years would make that 2008. That place looks like he's been there longer than that.

by Anonymousreply 316April 13, 2022 5:39 PM

[quote] 300 responses in and nobody commented on the hideous kitchen cabinets that briefly flashed by?

I can't watch the video again. What's the minute / second mark?

by Anonymousreply 317April 13, 2022 5:56 PM

I think the apartment was large enough, that wasn't the issue. The sad thing is that he probably did clean up a bit before the cameras came in. Also, that's a large TV and he probably sits on the couch and watches a lot TV.

by Anonymousreply 318April 13, 2022 5:58 PM

I feel much better about my own apartment now.

by Anonymousreply 319April 13, 2022 6:13 PM

R317, the kitchen cabinets are at 0:46 - 0:51.

They look fine, just old fashioned.

by Anonymousreply 320April 13, 2022 6:14 PM

Thanks, R320. Yeah, they looked OK to me. I'm guessing he eats takeout food, mostly.

by Anonymousreply 321April 13, 2022 6:20 PM

With a galley living room it would be difficult to make seating vignettes and still have enough display area for his dolls, books and knick-knacks. He’d have to get rid of his TV credenza and get creative with his display options.

by Anonymousreply 322April 13, 2022 8:19 PM

And what a treasure of display items. Milk crates and things he found on the street. I hope he's heavily insured his beloved Golden Girls fan and M&M's pillow.

by Anonymousreply 323April 13, 2022 8:31 PM

When I was a poor young queen I always had nice looking decor. I would haunt thrifts,estate sales ,etc. Many the time Id find furniture on the side of the road,strip it,paint or stain it and voila. I kept my house spotless too. My dear grandmother always said "You can be poor as a church mouse,but if you are clean people will respect you" and Ive always lived by that. But I guess MM just wasnt that kind of gay. I have met a few over the years,dirty bitches with shitty taste, so they do exist. I just never thought he would be like that.

by Anonymousreply 324April 13, 2022 8:47 PM

Michael Musto is right that people throw away cool art in New York, and you find it on the street and bring it home. Might have it rematted and reframed first.

by Anonymousreply 325April 13, 2022 8:49 PM

[quote] My dear grandmother always said "You can be poor as a church mouse, but if you are clean people will respect you"

The expression is usually "quiet as a church mouse".

by Anonymousreply 326April 13, 2022 8:53 PM

Nowadays people pull homey anecdotes and expressions straight out of their asses, willy nilly.

by Anonymousreply 327April 13, 2022 8:56 PM

Nope, it's "poor as a church mouse", R326.

"If someone is as poor as a church mouse they are extremely poor. An other similar phrase is hungry as a church mouse. The phrase is derived from the fact that church buildings don't store or provide food and therefore mice in such buildings were utterly destitute."

by Anonymousreply 328April 13, 2022 8:59 PM

They eye lash art is actually cool. But why doesn't he hang it over his beloved sofa?

by Anonymousreply 329April 13, 2022 9:14 PM

What? And ruin the infirmed gay street person aesthetic?

by Anonymousreply 330April 13, 2022 9:16 PM

I suppose if one compares it to Quentin Crisp's apartment, it doesn't seem so bad after all.

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by Anonymousreply 331April 13, 2022 9:35 PM

That's setting the bar really low, R331.

by Anonymousreply 332April 13, 2022 9:38 PM

What would dear Nicholas think? He would faint away on that smudgy white couch.

by Anonymousreply 333April 13, 2022 9:47 PM

Quentin Crisp's building at 46 East 3rd Street. It's off topic but I was just curious.

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by Anonymousreply 334April 13, 2022 9:49 PM

Quentin Crisp's place probably rents for $4,000 a month now.

by Anonymousreply 335April 13, 2022 10:00 PM

If you lot are having kittens over Michael Musto's apartment, hold on to your hats dearies, Quinten Crisp lived in basically flop house conditions.

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by Anonymousreply 336April 13, 2022 10:06 PM

I wouldn't be surprised, R335. It was a single room rental when he lived there from 1981 till his death in 1999. Quite depressing thinking of an elderly man living in a hovel.

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by Anonymousreply 337April 13, 2022 10:06 PM

As stated several times in this thread, there are worse, far worse apartments in city. Some of them make MM's look immaculate, and meticulously decorated.

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by Anonymousreply 338April 13, 2022 10:07 PM

R337

Tons of elderly men and women both gay and straight live in "hovels" all over NYC. People move into rent regulated, SRO, or other such digs and never leave. Worse over years their apartments become filled with stuff that they won't throw out, yet keep bringing in more. Cleaning is rare or not really done for various reason including frail health or whatever.

As someone stated in thread previously, speak with visiting nurses, cable or telephone installers/service people, social workers, FDNY, NYPD, and some others about state of apartments they've been in for various reasons.

by Anonymousreply 339April 13, 2022 10:11 PM

Quentin Crisp's apartment was fabulous!

by Anonymousreply 340April 13, 2022 10:14 PM

Ultimately he reminds me of my uncle, who lived in the ugliest house, but obviously didn’t care about his surroundings. Not dirty or hoarding, but brown and beige everything. Then he left a half million dollars when he died. Bet MM socks his away too.

by Anonymousreply 341April 13, 2022 10:47 PM

I once managed a run down old hotel that had converted to weekly/monthly rentals. The rooms were roomy,but nasty as fuck because of decades of deferred maintenance . This was the mid 90s and some of those old people had been there since it converted in 1972. I had the misfortune of having to clean out their rooms after they died or went into care and were never coming back. They had decades of crap shoved everywhere. As bad as those were,they werent quite as bad as that nasty dump Miss Crisp lived in. Honestly,had he no friends to help him?

by Anonymousreply 342April 13, 2022 10:53 PM

[quote] Then he left a half million dollars when he died.

To you?

by Anonymousreply 343April 13, 2022 10:54 PM

A few good ideas have come from Sweden, including death cleaning.

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by Anonymousreply 344April 13, 2022 10:55 PM

True, R339. Like the actress at R175.

I can't believe Quentin Crisp lived till 90. I just assumed poor people died younger.

by Anonymousreply 345April 13, 2022 10:55 PM

I can’t believe that over the course of 50 years he didn’t cosy up to several interior decorators to help him sort the place out. Even now he’s something of a ‘name’, and 20 years ago any number of up and coming to established designers would have helped him out.

I guess he just loves his shitty taste as much as he loves himself. That combination causes blindness.

by Anonymousreply 346April 13, 2022 10:57 PM

I agree, R346. Musto likes cheap, junky and grimy. He could have done better without spending much money. That's his taste.

by Anonymousreply 347April 13, 2022 10:59 PM

MM didn’t take advantage of the opportunities he could have had. He should have had his own celebrity gossip website when celebrity gossip blogs took off in the early 2000’s. He could have made so much more.

by Anonymousreply 348April 13, 2022 11:03 PM

[quote]Honestly,had he no friends to help him?

Like many people, Crisp was probably too proud to accept help. He probably didn't want people coming over to his place and looking around with a look of dismay on their faces.

He wasn't too proud to accept help with food. They said he was only too happy to be invited to a restaurant if the other person would pay the entire bill.

by Anonymousreply 349April 13, 2022 11:06 PM

By DL standards Quentin Crisp was a lazy slob and slovenly housekeeper. He lived surrounded by filth and was proud of that fact.

These two quotes tell all one needs to know...

“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”

and

'IF you live in squalor, you have to have order,'

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by Anonymousreply 350April 13, 2022 11:12 PM

Yep, that's the way to do it. Why live your life in modest comfort when you can live in filthy squalor and leave money to doll collection.

by Anonymousreply 351April 13, 2022 11:27 PM

He’s a fucking slob. He doesn’t bathe regularly, and has that “old man” smell

by Anonymousreply 352April 13, 2022 11:32 PM

One thing he won't share is his Bea Arthur memorabilia closet. Some things are just too sacred.

by Anonymousreply 353April 13, 2022 11:38 PM

MM could get a YouTube channel going and make a nice regular income.

by Anonymousreply 354April 13, 2022 11:53 PM

Or an Only Fans.

by Anonymousreply 355April 14, 2022 12:05 AM

Michael's great but yeah

by Anonymousreply 356April 14, 2022 12:06 AM

R348, we was probably simply too lazy to do that. You can tell by looking at his apartment. Then again, it's nice the he did not sink to the level of Perez Hilton, Queerty etc..

by Anonymousreply 357April 14, 2022 1:01 AM

R348, he was probably simply too lazy to do that. You can tell by looking at his apartment. Then again, it's nice that he did not sink to the level of Perez Hilton, Queerty etc..

by Anonymousreply 358April 14, 2022 1:10 AM

It's not awful to stay in one's lane. In this case Michael's lane is named Dumpster Alley

by Anonymousreply 359April 14, 2022 1:10 AM

r324, you are remarkably condescending for someone who doesn't know what punctuation is and can't find his own space bar.

by Anonymousreply 360April 14, 2022 3:59 AM

It's fairly obvious to me that an unphased MM is posting in this thread.

by Anonymousreply 361April 14, 2022 4:15 AM

Now THAT would be sad.

by Anonymousreply 362April 14, 2022 4:29 AM

I kept waiting to be accused of being Michael Musto. I'll take R361 as that accusation.

by Anonymousreply 363April 14, 2022 4:30 AM

It's not that he has poor taste or that others live in worse conditions, it's that he was showing it off.

by Anonymousreply 364April 14, 2022 5:34 AM

I don't want to knock him, but he shows terrible judgment ALL OVER. That's what makes it a little disturbing. I mean, REALLY, MM?

by Anonymousreply 365April 14, 2022 6:31 AM

Pity that Nana didn't tell you about the wonders of the apostrophe, R324.

by Anonymousreply 366April 14, 2022 7:19 AM

It's surprisingly ..... underwhelming. Apart from the portraits and the dolls, it looks like something you would see a mid level Chinese Communist Party functionary living in in Beijing. Except... dirty. I'm a slob myself but I keep my place cleaner than that. If I was having somebody over to actually take photos of my home that would actually be published where strangers would see them I'd clean the everloving fuck out of everything, and then clean it again.

by Anonymousreply 367April 14, 2022 11:48 AM

He's just a dirty gay with no taste. Met many in my life to break the idea that a gay card is not worth the paper it's printed on.

by Anonymousreply 368April 14, 2022 12:26 PM

I read an interview with Musto years ago where he said he admired an aging Broadway star’s (can’t remember who) “soured optimism.” I think this apartment reflects that, and his presentation of it is aware and intentional. It’s sort of his brand.

by Anonymousreply 369April 14, 2022 10:05 PM

Trying to get the image of being topped by Michael Musto out of my mind.

by Anonymousreply 370April 14, 2022 10:05 PM

R360 and R366 Im just glad Im not such a sad lonely bitch who's life is so empty they have nothing better to do than criticize peoples punctuation on an anonymous gay board. Melville Im not,but you grammar and punctuation queens really need to get a fucking life. Nobody cares,cunts.

by Anonymousreply 371April 14, 2022 10:45 PM

So R369 is saying he's the gay Neil Hamburger?

by Anonymousreply 372April 14, 2022 11:15 PM

It would have been cool if while he was showing us those portraits of himself, he pulled out a couple of Basquiats and a Warhol. But alas...

by Anonymousreply 373April 14, 2022 11:45 PM

He'd be lucky to have a cocktail napkin with a Kenny Scharf doodle.

by Anonymousreply 374April 15, 2022 12:18 AM

Do you think there’s dried cum on that bed spread?

by Anonymousreply 375April 15, 2022 12:25 AM

r371, if you can't handle that kind of light criticism without melting down, then maybe DL is too spicy for you. This isn't your personal safe space. No one is impressed by you going into an emotional tailspin over nothing, then claiming you don't give any fucks.

by Anonymousreply 376April 15, 2022 12:02 PM

FUCK YOU R376 DIE IN A GREASE FIRE

by Anonymousreply 377April 15, 2022 12:05 PM

r377, I've been here 20 years. If I couldn't take some whiny sockpuppet saying stuff like that to me, I'd have left 19 years ago.

If you can't take someone calling you condescending without emotional meltdowns and bringin' out the alternate accounts, that's on you. Has nothing to do with me.

by Anonymousreply 378April 15, 2022 12:10 PM

My dear grandmother always said "You can be dumb as a church door knob,but if you become a clean but mousy shop bottom, people will disrespect you" and Ive always lived by that.

by Anonymousreply 379April 15, 2022 12:11 PM

I'm not the guy you were harassing, I'm just inoculating you with the DL goodness you describe.

by Anonymousreply 380April 15, 2022 12:12 PM

Musto smells like sour milk and rotten eggs

by Anonymousreply 381April 16, 2022 8:00 AM

Well, you would know.

by Anonymousreply 382April 16, 2022 8:02 AM

R381 must be a jilted ex with all his negative posts about MM.

by Anonymousreply 383April 16, 2022 8:19 AM

R383. No. Don’t make me wretch 🤢🤮

by Anonymousreply 384April 16, 2022 8:24 AM

I can't believe the show Open House actually aired his segment.

by Anonymousreply 385April 16, 2022 11:01 PM

The only thing that makes sense is he's doing a pump and dump. Probably has his new place in Florida picked out already. Who wants to grow old in NYC?

by Anonymousreply 386April 16, 2022 11:08 PM

His lavish lifestyle is off-putting.

by Anonymousreply 387April 16, 2022 11:10 PM

Good one, R387. 😂

by Anonymousreply 388April 16, 2022 11:45 PM

R386. You don’t seem to get it. He’ll go to the opening of a door, and if free meals, drinks, nibbles at a gallery opening, books, and any other freebies he can get are still flowing….he will be there. His cheapness is LEGENDARY. He’s a cut hair away from being the “male” Sylvia Miles. And yes, SHE SMELLED ALSO.

by Anonymousreply 389April 17, 2022 4:25 AM

Anne Frank had better accommodations at the Camp than this hell hole. If she’s had a choice between this dump and the oven, she still would have taken the oven.

by Anonymousreply 390April 17, 2022 5:05 AM

Sometimes it's just better to cultivate a mystique.

by Anonymousreply 391April 17, 2022 5:15 AM

Wow, R390. That is offensive in so many ways.

by Anonymousreply 392April 17, 2022 5:57 AM

I think r389 is a piece of shit.

by Anonymousreply 393April 17, 2022 6:20 AM

Michael / R393, watch your language.

by Anonymousreply 394April 17, 2022 6:25 AM

Michael does provide some fun wit here and there, but he doesn’t have any real “celebrity connections” when it comes to stylish friends or designers at this point in his life. That apartment is just a drab, typical midtown East condo-casket, ya bought it, it’s your Manhattan coffin. The eldergays all get found dead on the kitchen floor, two hours later the super throws out the Playbills and Baby dolls. Musto actually smells nice, but should def see a dentist and soon!

by Anonymousreply 395April 17, 2022 7:35 PM

Manhattan coffin 😣

by Anonymousreply 396April 17, 2022 7:54 PM

All of you blathering on as if MM was some sort of star television journalist or reporter like Anderson Cooper just don't have a clue.

As stated numerous times in this thread guy likely never made huge sums. MM made some money obviously because he bought that apartment. But looking at the rules they let anyone with pulse and bank account buy into that building.

Old Village Voice was a union shop, so reporters and others did well enough compensation wise I suppose. Not huge money, but compared to other weeklies it was decent. But that outfit folded years ago

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by Anonymousreply 397April 18, 2022 1:18 AM

I'm serious about the gofundme for a decorator. I've always enjoyed Musto's columns. This video tour is a cry for help. Some of you all are fucking mean, and I love it, but the longer this thread goes on, the more I want to comfort this eldergay and get him some decent artwork and curtains and a cleaning crew. We all need help from time to time.

by Anonymousreply 398April 18, 2022 1:20 AM

[quote] The eldergays all get found dead on the kitchen floor, two hours later the super throws out the Playbills and Baby dolls.

You’ve got the first sentence of a novel right there.

by Anonymousreply 399April 18, 2022 2:43 AM

It's a run-on sentence, though.

by Anonymousreply 400April 18, 2022 3:06 AM

[quote]The eldergays all get found dead on the kitchen floor, two hours later the super throws out the Playbills and Baby dolls.

Um no. Musto's superintendent better not do that because there's a video of his doll collection. He must have extended family and they won't take too kindly to the superintendent throwing out what he thinks isn't valuable.

by Anonymousreply 401April 18, 2022 3:21 AM

When someone dies alone in a NYC apartment unless there is a spouse or other legal tenants, place will be sealed until next of kin/probate is settled. Neither landlord nor anyone else can enter said premises without explict consent of the courts.

NYT did a piece some time back on the not too rare occurrence of someone dying in their apartment or home, and what happens afterwards.

Even if death takes place in hospital or anywhere else, same process pretty much plays out once LE and city become aware of demise.

As to things being thrown out, it happens all the time in NYC. Have seen families of deceased clear out an apartment by taking very little (if anything) for themselves, then telling LL or super of building to bag and throw everything that remains out with trash. One huge perk for building supers is they get first dibs on such things. Usually anything nice or of obvious value rarely makes it to the curb.

Given his single elder gay status, and fact MM does have an estate (royalties from his books, that apartment, etc...), am more than unusually sure he likely has made a will, and his cherished dolls will be going somewhere after he dies. That is if he isn't so hard up later in life they are sold for ready money, or he's forced to downsize if say goes into a care home.

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by Anonymousreply 402April 18, 2022 5:28 AM

Back in day savvy New Yorkers looking for inexpensive rental (hopefully rent stabilized) apartment would scan obituaries to see when a vacancy may have occurred. This and before deceased was in ground good hit up super of building for inside track information.

by Anonymousreply 403April 18, 2022 5:57 AM

Is this the guy who, early on, wrote about how horrible Madonna was and how he couldn't imagine her going far in her career considering how badly she treated people? The name seems familiar, and I just read that story somewhere the other day.

by Anonymousreply 404April 18, 2022 6:15 AM

Musto is immortal!!!

by Anonymousreply 405April 18, 2022 6:08 PM

The problem with the Manhattan Coffin is that when they have a pet like a dog, at some point the dog eats the dead owner out of desperation. This actually happens a lot. A friend of mine had a neighbor drop dead like that in his own unit, people heard the dog barking but no one checked on the guy for two weeks. By then both were dead but a significant amount of the man was eaten by the dog before it died of dehydration.

by Anonymousreply 406April 22, 2022 9:16 AM

I grew up very poor, in a house with rats and roaches and holes in the ceiling. Didn't have food to take to school most days, would eat cereal with a fork so we could save the milk, only one school uniform. I'm not being funny but our house still looked about the same as this, perhaps even nicer if we cleaned it (and it was about the same size).

He probably wouldn't throw away all the junk (though it does reveal him as being quite tasteless), but why can't he go over some of the surfaces with a good wipe down? The computer looks filthy.

by Anonymousreply 407April 22, 2022 9:39 AM

[quote] would eat cereal with a fork so we could save the milk

Oh, c'mon! Even Charles Dickens didn't go that far.

by Anonymousreply 408April 22, 2022 12:52 PM

The thing I would find even sadder than if he has been reduced to near poverty would be if he still has loads of money and actually chooses to live like that. And frankly I think the possibility that he is comfortable financially is more apt to be true. If he is it shocks me that that he would willingly let that dump be shown to the world.

by Anonymousreply 409April 22, 2022 1:00 PM

Most real writers have dirty/worn computers or laptops (or typewriters). And their work stations are pretty chaotic.

If a writer has a pristine, top of the line laptop kept perfectly clean and in order, chances are they’re not a very good writer.

by Anonymousreply 410April 22, 2022 3:21 PM

R410, he knew his apartment was going to be filmed. It doesn't take that long to wipe off the excess dust and dirt on his computer and VCR. He doesn't care.

by Anonymousreply 411April 22, 2022 3:28 PM

I’m getting the impression he doesn’t clean his hole well if he didn’t even clean his apartment for filming.

by Anonymousreply 412April 22, 2022 3:30 PM

Is his computer a typewriter connected to his TV?

by Anonymousreply 413April 22, 2022 3:32 PM

[quote] Most real writers have dirty/worn computers or laptops (or typewriters). And their work stations are pretty chaotic. If a writer has a pristine, top of the line laptop kept perfectly clean and in order, chances are they’re not a very good writer.

My work mostly involves writing. My keyboard gets dirty, but I clean it regularly. Same with the screen. My work station is not chaotic at all. The "messy desk" thing is a myth. (That ppl with a messy desk are talented and have organized minds, blah blah blah.)

by Anonymousreply 414April 22, 2022 4:55 PM

My sister is a genius lawyer and her office looks a cyclone hit at all times. Nobody understands how she functions. But she sure brings in the money for her firm.

by Anonymousreply 415April 22, 2022 5:40 PM

There's a guy at my work, whose desk looks like an avalanche of papers and crap, with the keyboard resting on the slope and the monitors partly buried under it

He is one of the best technical people in the company, if I have something I cant fix I go to him. He'll know, or have the answer somewhere buried amongst all that mess and he'll somehow pull it out in five minutes

by Anonymousreply 416April 22, 2022 6:13 PM

Yeah and I'm sure there are plenty of people who are really good at their jobs who keep their desks neat and don't allow dust and assorted crud to build up on their computers.

by Anonymousreply 417April 22, 2022 6:59 PM

[quote]My sister is a genius lawyer

So you're the disappointment?

by Anonymousreply 418April 22, 2022 7:45 PM

Why is this relevant? I like Musto but is he some maverick genius who would need to have papers smeared all over his desk? No.

by Anonymousreply 419April 22, 2022 7:49 PM

The prissy neat freaks have infested the thread!

by Anonymousreply 420April 22, 2022 8:01 PM

R420 is a filthy swine.

by Anonymousreply 421April 22, 2022 9:13 PM

I don't trust people with clean desks--are they really working?

by Anonymousreply 422April 22, 2022 9:32 PM

Yes, I am the disappointment R418.

The truth would hurt if I weren’t so used to it.

by Anonymousreply 423April 22, 2022 9:51 PM

LOL

Musto likely bought the place 15-20 years ago when postwar cookie-cutter one bedroom apartments were selling for between $200K-300K. His mother likely gave him the down payment too. A lot of NYC Nightlife People live in far more basic places than you'd expect them to.

It does look like a college apartment, that couch in particular looks really uncomfortable, not the sort of thing you' would crash out on and watch TV.

There were no rugs either, which is the thing I found most odd-- you'd want them for practical reasons--floors are cold in the winter. Plus there's a law in NYC about having to cover a certain percentage of your floors so your neighbors don't hear you clomping around.

The building and neighborhood are fine for what they are--as someone noted upthread, it is all studios and one bedrooms, so mostly single people or young couples. Probably some empty nesters too.

Murray Hill south of 34th is sort of a giant Jewish Post-Collegiate Dorm. Shout out "OhMyGawd! Did you go to Syracuse?" in any (hetero) bar around there and half the room will turn around, but it is as Musto says --not a destination on weekends and so sort of quiet, yet convenient to just about everything.

And yes, I have no idea why he thought doing that video was a good idea.

by Anonymousreply 424April 22, 2022 10:10 PM

The Hotel Chelsea it ain’t.

by Anonymousreply 425April 22, 2022 10:24 PM

[quote]Most real writers have dirty/worn computers or laptops (or typewriters). And their work stations are pretty chaotic. If a writer has a pristine, top of the line laptop kept perfectly clean and in order, chances are they’re not a very good writer.

That's pure bull shit Circa 1950. I have worked in creative offices with computers for over 20 years. Most creatives are very particular about their work space. If anything they are over cluttered with collectables. But even that's died out. Minimal clean spaces are the norm these days for most creative types. You need a clean blank canvas to dream upon, not some horder shit hole full of dead cats.

by Anonymousreply 426April 23, 2022 12:55 AM

But how creative are these new young tidy people?

by Anonymousreply 427April 23, 2022 1:04 AM

Precious little originality, to be sure, R427. It's too risky. Someone might be triggered by the new. And how far can you get with no sense of humor whatsoever?

by Anonymousreply 428April 23, 2022 1:17 AM

R426 A perfect analogy to the sad state of “writing” these days.

by Anonymousreply 429April 23, 2022 12:46 PM

Girls, girls! You’re ALL tragic.

by Anonymousreply 430April 23, 2022 1:21 PM

I imagine his bathroom having one of those fuzzy toilet seat lid covers with matching mat.

by Anonymousreply 431April 23, 2022 9:58 PM

^its the tackiest thing I have in my house, but my cat likes to sit on it when I’m getting ready in the morning.

by Anonymousreply 432April 23, 2022 11:20 PM

Datalounge people that CLOWN doll is the CREEPIEST doll EVER.

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by Anonymousreply 433October 18, 2023 11:37 PM

It is amazing what some people will do just to live in Manhattan. Mateo Lane said his first NYC apartment was in a roach and rat infested tenement building and his bathroom was in his kitchen. He said "I shit and cooked in the same room".

by Anonymousreply 434October 18, 2023 11:59 PM

Holy shit. I truly have a cooler place and much nicer belongings.

And I am a nobody who is always hovering 2 feet from the edge of the gutter.

What a DUMP. Holy shit. Its all JUNK!

by Anonymousreply 435October 19, 2023 1:12 AM

There are rooms in the Tenement Museum on the LES that are better decorated/cleaner than this dump

by Anonymousreply 436October 19, 2023 1:21 AM

It's full of brick 'n' brac & nick 'n' back.

by Anonymousreply 437October 19, 2023 2:08 AM

R364- He’s like Lens Dunham who loves to emphasize her UNATTRACTIVENESS .

by Anonymousreply 438October 19, 2023 12:33 PM

That apartment really puts the must in Musto

by Anonymousreply 439October 19, 2023 3:46 PM

Where does he keep his Ramen stash?

by Anonymousreply 440October 19, 2023 3:48 PM

I lived in a palatial three bedroom on Union Sq that was rent control. When the radiator broke, it warped all the parquet flooring.

I was excited to get a new one, only to discover the landlord reclaimed the replacement tiles from previous gut renovations.

by Anonymousreply 441October 19, 2023 6:36 PM

His face closeup looks like the Grinch.

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by Anonymousreply 442October 19, 2023 11:02 PM

At least this bitch has real furniture......and isn't sitting on lawn chairs like another writer we know.

by Anonymousreply 443January 1, 2024 8:49 PM

Everything's covered in decades of dust and cum.

by Anonymousreply 444January 1, 2024 9:45 PM

Nacreous layers of permacum, no less

by Anonymousreply 445January 1, 2024 11:51 PM

But only his cum because no one else would walk into that shithole apartment and be up for sex.

by Anonymousreply 446January 2, 2024 12:17 AM
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