Monthly Archives: March 2011

AMAZING STOPOVER

Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has stressed to the the Tourism Authority of Thailand or TAT that the private investors should shift their investment from budget travelers from Europe and the USA to the 1st-class tourists from the upper-class of the wealthy class. Previous PMs have spoken the same words for the last 20 years […]

BLACK BEAUTY / Arthur Lee’s lost LP from 1973

The name Arthur Lee rebounded back to life this week with High Moon Records’ announcement that his lost album Black Beauty will emerge from bootleg glory as a new release this summer. Love will once more be alive and Arthur Lee risen from the grave. The founder of Love started the band in 1965. Hollywood […]

OPEN CITY MAGAZINE RIP (1991-2011)

Open City Magazine issued its first edition in 1991. The editors promoted known and unknown writers. Adrian Dannett and Joanna Yaz ( see foto ) published my short story WHY I MISS JUNKIES in 2002 as well as several other pieces of my semi-fiction. OPEN CITY MAGAZINE will be missed by its readers and contributors, […]

You Bet I Would # 5

Britain Go Home

I’m a peaceful drinker. My local on Fulham Street is only two blocks from my atelier. The regulars have accepted as one of them rather than ‘one of Them’. The core of the bar numbers about ten. We converse about racism, neighborhood change, Mississippi cops, the Celtics, Knicks, Prince versus Michael Jackson, food, and pretty […]