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The Game Is Rigged

It’s not easy being you and me, especially when we look around and see what a breeze of a bowl of cherries life is for rich cats and poor dudes. And their wives and old…

Trigger Reactions

It might have been the very first issue. Someone with no experience was trying to set type using a Macintosh and was being taught over the phone, by someone in New York, how to paste…

Pass On The Mac-N-Cheese

In California ‘foodies’ are snooty sorts who browse their tiny plates of wild-sourced, shade grown servings of French herbs with Peruvian potatoes on the side and a delicate sauce applied with an eyedropper. They sip…

Stacked

Armed with a backpack filled with clean socks and underwear and my Eurail Pass I boarded a cheap charter at SFO bound for Heathrow on my 18th birthday. The plan was to hitchhike around Europe…

Trees, Singing & Silent

Inscribed on the nameboard of an ottavino spinet (a small tabletop, or even laptop, harpsichord) dated 1710 and now in the Russell Collection of musical instruments at the University of Edinburgh, runs the motto: “Dum…

The TesBros (a one-act play starring el presidente)

United States President Donald Trump is driving around in his new red Tesla listening to "Stranglehold" (by Ted Nugent) turned up loud. He's trying to sing along but doesn't know the words, so it's a…

Bayeux Fever

It was only after I left the Bar Bayeux in Brooklyn last Friday night, elated after two riveting sets from the Michael Sarin Quintet, that I realized that the club’s name was a clever pun…

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