Monthly Archives: May 2016

Neo-Droid Hands

May 26, 2016 – 9:44 pm

Comic book characters rarely had all their fingers. Many artists are unable to draw a hand, which I’ve always deemed to be the cause for the advent of abstract expressionism. Most recently I went online to look at wedding bands for a friend. The website offered this image. Not really a hand. Then again nothing […]

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120 Years Of Economic Repression

May 26, 2016 – 5:56 pm
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Best Minds Of My Generation

May 26, 2016 – 5:09 pm

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night. – alan ginsburg – howl To listen to Alan Ginsberg […]

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The Love of Gladiators

May 24, 2016 – 9:11 am

My older brother’s school was a trolley ride away from our suburban house. Boston College High School excelled at sports and academics. I wanted to join my brother in the following class of 1970, except I won a full scholarship to Xaverian Brothers located only ten miles away from our exit on Route 128. The […]

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THE FLIGHT OF HISTORY by Peter Nolan Smith

May 24, 2016 – 8:30 am

At Xaverian High School outside of Boston Brother Phelan taught history without any deviation from the path of the textbook. I was Brother Phelan’s # 1 student, since I had read the textbook from beginning to end during the first week of the semester. During class I stared out the window, thinking about my cheerleader […]

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