Monthly Archives: October 2010

Heading West

October 18, 2010 – 7:56 am

Driving across country in the 70s was a rite of passage for hippie late-comers. Boston – Frisco could be driven in less than 50 hours, but a week on the backroads felt more like Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD. In 1974 my good friend Andy, a flaxen blonde coed from Harvard and I motored west in […]

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Happy Beermas

October 18, 2010 – 7:43 am

October is the high-holiday month for beer drinkers everywhere, especially in Germany where the nation celebrates the renown Oktobeerfest. Your attendance is obligatory Drink beer and drink it often. It’s good for you and if you have any difficulties, please refer to the above chart. It’s a life saver.

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Proposition 19 / California

October 18, 2010 – 7:33 am

Fat white males around America have rallied their support for the ‘we are the people’ Tea Party. They are angry about having Health Care, pissed about taxes on the rich, and think the President wasn’t born in the USA. Fate white women are peeved about their children listening to rap, wearing provocative clothing, and watching […]

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Fingerlicking Good

October 14, 2010 – 10:06 pm

back in 1995 I was in Tibet with two Frenchmen laying fiber-optic lines across the steppes. Spies probably We spoke about food. A lot, because Tibetan cuisine lacked ‘je ne sais quoi’; rancid butter tea, hairy yak meat, and crunchy grilled buckwheat or tsampa. Day after day. Bleech. We lived on cheap Chinese beer and […]

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Palisades Amusement Park

October 10, 2010 – 10:13 pm

My first trip to New York City was in 1964. My father had business with NY Tel, the parent company of New England Tel. He drove our Ford Station Wagon down from Boston. My mother sat in the front seat. My older brother and I were in the back. New York was a city that […]

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