Monthly Archives: October 2013

Big Boys Don’t Cry

October 18, 2013 – 8:40 pm

The GOP revisionists collapsed in the face of the federal budget default. Ted Cruz vowed to fight Obamacare to the last breath of his body much as Charlton Heston had sworn to uphold the right to carry a firearm into the grave. John Boehner survived the crisis to continue as the party whip, even though […]

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The Punch Bowl – Boston

October 16, 2013 – 8:00 pm

From http://archive.guidemag.com Steps away from Park Square, in Bay Village, gay patrons poured into Mario’s, a restaurant with an upstairs bar; Jacques, a drag venue that still exists; Cavana’s, a boisterous women’s bar; and, in a former speakeasy space, the more formal Napoleon Club. Not far away, straddling the block between Providence and Boylston Streets, […]

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CBGBs Festival 2013

October 16, 2013 – 7:47 pm

Last week the CBGBs festival reincarnated the spirit of the Bowery birthplace of Punk. CBGBs the movie debuted in New York. I missed all of it. Broke and exhausted from my working day. I fondly remember my years at CBGBs. And all my friends Like Excessive aka X aka Jahn Xavier, the guitarist for the […]

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Early Phone Sex

October 15, 2013 – 9:12 pm

In the summer of 1968 I worked in a Boston phone exchange. There were hundreds of cable banks corresponding the working numbers. My friend and I would eavesdrop on thousands of conversations. Few people said anything of importance, but one couple practically invented phone sex and spoke at the same hour every day. One afternoon […]

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A River To My People

October 10, 2013 – 9:57 pm

After taking Aqaba in the epic film LAWRENCE OF ARABIA TE Lawrence confronts Anthony Quinn’s character Auda abu Tayi about payments from their Turkish enemy. Auda Abu Tayi tells Peter O’Toole the truth in front of hundreds of tribesmen extras. Auda abu Tayi: I am Auda abu Tayi! Does Auda serve? Howeitat tribesmen: NO! Auda […]

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