Shut Up, Little Man!

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Shut Up, Little Man! is the title of bootleg "audio vérité" illicit recordings of two argumentative and violent alcoholics, Peter J. Haskett (1928–1996) and Raymond L. Huffman (1931–1992) in San Francisco. The recordings were initially distributed on cassette tape; Bananafish magazine arranged for a small commercial release in 1992. From 1994 through 1996 there were multiple failed attempts to obtain the rights to the recordings from Haskett. Beginning in 1999, the original recorders began pressing their own CD copies and selling them online. The recordings were made by "Eddie Lee Sausage" and "Mitchell D.", who lived in a bright pink apartment building at 237 Steiner Street (dubbed the "Pepto Bismol Palace") in San Francisco's Lower Haight district. Eddie Lee and Mitchell moved into the apartment in 1987, and discovered that their neighbors, Haskett and Huffman, argued nearly constantly, with Peter often shouting "shut up, little man!" at Ray. Eddie and Mitchell began tape recording the...

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