Monthly Archives: January 2010

Gilbert Stafford RIP

January 3, 2010 – 4:34 pm

The nightlife was a good living in the late-70s and 80s. My income was twice what it is now. Mostly of it cash from tips. A few doorman worked the big places. The job tended to burn us out. My last gig was the Milk Bar in Beverly Hills. The year was 1995. Only one […]

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Yahoo for Blackwater

January 3, 2010 – 4:12 pm

Blackwater USA received a late Xmas gift when a federal judge threw out all charges against five employees involved in a deadly shooting incident resulting in the deaths of 16 Iraqi civilians. The company now known as XE Services remains on the Iraqi blacklist of US contractors, however the Pentagon still employs their services for […]

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My Generation

January 2, 2010 – 9:34 pm

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50’s and 60s. First we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer. Then […]

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