Monthly Archives: January 2015

Hot Pants Back Then

January 17, 2015 – 2:27 pm

This morning the thermometer outside the window of the Fort Greene Observatory read a frosty 18 Fahrenheit. My hand touched the glass. It was colder than ice. I bundled up for my walk to the train station, but was heartened by the toasty warmth of the sun. The strength of its glow was not a […]

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Si Drole 1961

January 12, 2015 – 9:16 pm

France waged a long and bloody war of repression in their Algerian colony from 1954 to 1962 against the FLN or National Liberation Front. The French army outnumbered their adversaries, but the NLF had the support of the populace from Algiers to the Magreb. There were few pitched battles and every street was considered a […]

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Paris Mourns Who?

January 11, 2015 – 10:42 pm

This week’s attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris have galvanized the Gallic resolve against Islamic terrorists. The French firmly believe in the freedom of speech and millions have flooded the streets to show solidarity with the satirical magazine’s right to portray Allah as a monster, Arabs as hook-nosed idiots, and Hassidim as filthy […]

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Tom Brady Is So Cool

January 11, 2015 – 10:18 pm

In the Teddy Bruschi home game shirt which I found thrown out on South Oxford Street a year ago. Freshly laundered. Yesterday with the Patriots down two TDs against the Ravens I broke tradition and phoned a friend. This potentially dangerous breach of the superstition code paid off big time and the Patriots won against […]

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Four Men From Maine

January 11, 2015 – 7:48 pm

Back in the early 90s I was in a Bangkok bar. I heard an accent and approached the speaker, a 40ish man in a flannel shirt. “Are you from Bangor?” “Yeah, what about you?” “Falmouth Foresides.” I had lived the first eight years of my life across from Portland. “We must be the only two […]

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