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Netflix Series: American Primeval

I watched a few episodes of this new series which starts out at Fort Bridger and quickly moves to what could only be a reference to the Mountain Meadow Massacre, which meant crossing the Colorado…

Remembering Cockburn

(by Connor Kilpatrick, Brooklyn, September 2013) I’m honored to have been invited to speak here. But seeing as how everyone else is either a relative of Alexander’s or a personal friend, I’d like to talk…

N.R. DeMexico

The obviously pseudonomynous author of "Marijuana Girl," N.R. DeMexico, "was identified by folklorist and erotica historian Gershon Legman as Robert Campbell Bragg, a Greenwich Village bohemian and novelist, and one of the people who, along…

Bowled Over

Checking to see what time the Rose Bowl would be on today (Oregon vs Ohio State), I was amazed by the proliferation of bowl games.  I obviously haven’t been paying attention. Since December 14, 2024,…

House Of Broken Toys

I hurt my back last week. No, wait. That’s not right. I meant to say “My back hurt me last week” and hasn’t stopped. I might need a tourniquet. Backs go out and seem to…

The Abbie & Amy Show

It wasn’t Abbie Hoffman’s finest moment. But it was one of them. It was a critical moment in 1987 when he and the daughter of a president protested against the presence of the CIA and…

Reflections On Pancho Villa & The Fall Of Dictators

Dictators – whether in Spain, South Africa, Romania or Syria — retain power for decades. They can seem impregnable and invulnerable. But they always fall, and when they do fall the world acts surprised. It…

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