On the last Sunday of this past October, a Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest broke out in Washington Square Park in New York City. Dozens of participants and thousands of onlookers thronged to the event and…
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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…
(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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…