Monthly Archives: July 2010

Decisions Decisions Decisions

July 15, 2010 – 8:15 pm

Here’s a quandary posed by Big Al of Pattaya: Please read the entire passage for the correct impact. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus: 1. An old lady who looks as […]

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La Decadanse / Serge Gainsbourg

July 14, 2010 – 8:31 pm

Did anyone ever do it better in our times?

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Thai Troublemaker

July 14, 2010 – 7:50 pm

The Preah Vihar temple crowns the rugged cliffs of the Dângręk Mountains. The border between French Indochina and Siam had been the divide between two watersheds. No one posted boundary markers until France surrendered the control possession to their former underlings. Thailand was four times the size of Cambodia, but Cambodia thanks to the arguments […]

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Tuli Kupferberg RIP

July 14, 2010 – 7:47 am

The lead singer of the Fugs passed away yesterday. The revolutionary hippie group never had a hit. I loved their music. No commercial value.No sell out. Tuli was famous for his surviving a suicide attempt off the Manhattan Bridge. Most people thought that the anarchist poet had leapt from the Brooklyn Brodge. That span is […]

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Jacob Wirth Boston World Cup

July 13, 2010 – 9:23 pm

A heat wave is defined in the USA as 3 consecutive days of 90-plus temperatures. The July 4th Weekend the thermometer hit 100 every day. The meteorologists were predicting no relief for New York. Wednesday morning I left my Fort Greene apartment. A taxi across the Manhattan Bridge to Chinatown. It was a work week. […]

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