The Church of The Realized Fantasy. (The original Amazon prototype) CHAPTER TWENTY
Mickey Cezar is a famous, infamous and controversial utopian communist gay Jewish marijuana dealer. A real New York character, he introduced telephone order marijuana.
Every year Cezar dresses up like the pope and gives out free joints to all who reach out at the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, and at Wigstock. David Peel sang about him and John Lennon and Yoko Ono produced the record, THE POPE SMOKES DOPE. Yep, that was about Mickey Cezar.
The Church's funds come from the sale and bicycle delivery of marijuana all over the island of Manhattan, which includes Wall Street, the Theater District, really most of the places people think of when they think of New York. (There was no World Commerce Center in those days and no land west of the West Side Highway.)
What Albanian Louie told me was that one place the pope gets his weed is the projects. When he found out that electricity and water isn't metered in most public housing in New York he hatched a wealth sharing scheme involving hundreds apartments on Avenue D, in Ravenswood, Pleasant Avenue, and Polo Ground Houses. This operation recently got busted but only partially taken down by the cops. The pope had operated in disguise and never used his name or nickname in his contacts with his growers. No grower knew any other grower nor who the pope was. Cezar used to contact his growers through his couriers and his couriers by pay phone.
Anyhow every day but Halloween and Wigstock or a record-breaking blizzard or hurricane his ten or so bicycle couriers pedal around peddling marijuana (get it? Peddling pedaling) which was unofficially decriminalized in those days for white people in only in New York County (Manhattan).
The young men made pretty good money pedaling their bikes and peddling dope. Cezar even got them dental insurance. Their jobs were pretty dangerous though.
By the way Louie once worked as a weed peddler for Mickey Cezar and the Church of the Realized Fantasy. I realize now that they were more than friends.
A majority of the NYPD and the Manhattan County District Attorney's staff were overwhelmingly loyal Catholics, (even though some were not quite devout) and most of them were enraged by Cezar's Pope ridiculing queer commie pinko Jew antics mocking their Church in public and making it something ridiculous. Finally they got him.
They say when he was arrested Cezar told the cops that he would be very happy on Rikers Island because there were so many boys there. (On your planet Cezar died of cancer after being released from Rikers. Not in this almost parallel one.) Albanian Louie knew him and did some peddling for him too but he got scared off.
You see everybody thought it was a big joke - the "pope" smoking dope, laughing in everyone's face and all but it was pretty freaky actually in a dangerous kind of way. Well just imagine. You had the whole world knowing that this was going on and this weed was not cheap. After all it was delivered within 40 minutes of a telephone order and Manahatta is not exactly low rent. Of course the business was almost all cash. I mean after all who would want to pay $350 for a lid of weed and charge it to a corporate account? (A few people.)
So there were gangs that used to sweat the Church, Mickey, and the bicycle couriers like Louie. Remember Louie was something of a celebrity himself having been in a few porno movies plus he was really ugly as sin. He has a face you cannot forget. So there was this Puerto Rican gang called the Hitman Club that was sweating the business. If any of them would spot especially Louie on a bicycle they would gang up and jump him. They once busted into the church and held everyone at gunpoint saying they wanted a thousand dollars a week protection. They robbed Louie three times. The last time they did it Louie threw in the towel. There also was the Italian Mafia, The Westies, the Israeli mob and the Russian Jewish mafia. Some of these guys had the reputation that one would shoot you in the head to check to make sure his gun was working.
It isn't like Louie or Mickey could call the cops or file a complaint or something you know. I mean what they were doing was out in the open but it was against the law. And then other things happened. The telephone company cut them off and there were also just plain freelancers who sometimes laid ambushes for the guys on bikes. So Louie quit and he was kind of between gigs you could say though he was kind of personally a friend of Mickey's. Anyhow that's what Louie used to say. And I believed it. Why would he lie to me about that?
So anyhow Pope Mickey's part of a long tradition, maybe two long traditions.
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Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, Alice
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