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Memories Isn’t Made Of This. These.

Memory is a funny thing for people. Especially old people. Or not funny. It’s not at all funny for me, not that I’m old. But we hear people (I hear people, or at least voices)…

The Hop Flat Adventure, Some New Info

Since I submitted my Hop Flat explorations story last week, I have stumbled across some additions and corrections I would like to share with your readers. The most interesting of them was a coincidental consequence…

Dave Eyster & His Invisible Friend

A PLAY IN ONE ACT Cast of Characters: DAVE EYSTER, Mendocino County District Attorney BUNNY, Dave’s invisible childhood friend BUNNY: Dave? Dave? Dave it’s me. Dave! Dave wake up! DAVE: Huh? Whaa? Dave’s not here.…

The Many Masks Of The Sexless Spy

In America, everything is possible, even Mission Impossible. Especially Mission Impossible. The theme music proclaims it. Bursting out of a high tremolo like a fuse burning fast, the opening trombone-heavy groove is jaunty yet resolute.…

Golf Is Just A Four-Letter Word

Is every town overrun with golfers the way Ukiah is? Is there any other group that seems to be everywhere all at once the way local golfers are? If there isn’t a weekend golf tournament…

Liberation, Cooptation & The Sixties

Reflections on Thorne Dreyer’s Notes from the Underground (New Journalism Project, $27). Have you noticed? Sixties folk—organizers, activists, pacifists, feminists and liberationists of all stripes—can’t seem to get enough of the era when they made…

Bill Veeck

Slightly condensed from an article in the March 1949 American Legion Magazine by Paul Gardner (my dad, whose folder of yellowed clippings I’ve been looking through.) In mid-summer of 1946 Bill Veeck limped into Cleveland…

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