My father was an anarchist and didn't know it. When the Connecticut State Police first made the announcement that "driving is not a right, it…
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I read with interest the online comment on growing up with the simple pleasures of small town Ohio in the 50s and 60s. Real eggs,…
As a kid during the 50s my favorite movies were sci-fi and monster flicks, mostly black and white budget affairs like Creature from the Black…
Obama, Percy Shelley, Louis Armstrong, Helen Thomas. These are the people with the same birthday as mine, the ones I choose to claim. Not Sheldon…
I'd been to Reno and found it thoroughly unpleasant, what my friend Dave would call a "real dump." And, my old buddy Bob ended his life of substance abuse problems by overdosing there. He was a talented musician with an equally if not more talented rich & famous musician brother who had stayed home and practiced while Bob went about getting fucked up. Yep, that's pretty much how it works.
There are no vegetables in Wyoming, although we can hope that Dick Cheney will soon achieve such a state. In the west (to the east…
Much ado about the death penalty lately... Some places want to reinstate the firing squad, which is interesting if only because one or more of…
There's no way to really tell how much Colorado's recent population surge has to do with legalized cannabis. But some locals see a connection. One…
In 1969 Curtis Knight was still recording at PPX Studios on West 55th St., just off Broadway in Manhattan. Jimi Hendrix had left Curtis’ band,…
Campus fraternities are in the news. The "Greek system." All most people know about them is what they saw in Animal House. One thing from…
My parents moved to Connecticut when I was eight years old, and it was the suburbs. And suburbs were new then. Levittown had been built when... in the '40's, '47? ... and this was a brand-new suburban subdivision called the Highlands. My parents bought a house, and everything seemed okay except that there was a part of me that immediately felt something was definitely wrong there.