Monthly Archives: October 2014

SEASON OF THE WITCH / Julie Driscoll and Trinity

October 28, 2014 – 8:48 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpizS9h-1Xk

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The Ghost Of Pumpkin Trotsky

October 28, 2014 – 7:46 pm

Two weekends ago thousands of New England college students converged on Keene, New Hampshire. The annual Pumpkin Festival ended in a riot. My nephew attended the celebration of the Jack O’Lantern. Eric told his father that he had left before the disturbances flared into violence. Paddy and I looked at each other. We had been […]

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Steve McQueen How Cool

October 26, 2014 – 11:37 am

Steve McQueen was the coolest movie star ever. Sean Connery and Clint Eastwood are living icons, but Steve was the champion of cool. Dead or alive. As a child my brothers, sisters, and I attended Our Lady of the Foothills south of Boston. The parochial grammar school heavily tressed the Four Rs of reading, ‘riting, […]

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Very Seriously Cool

October 26, 2014 – 11:01 am

Jacquiline Bisset Steve McQueen. BULLITT Steve had his hands full.

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DRUNK DRIVING HOUR by Peter Nolan Smith

October 24, 2014 – 5:15 pm

During the early 1970s my college comrades and I drank at the Hi-hat Lounge in Brighton. The girls were young, the drinks were cheap, and we sold ‘ludes and mescaline at the bar. Neither of them were the best available in Boston, but we were always in supply, so the bands playing on Commonwealth Avenue […]

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