Monthly Archives: June 2016

Death Rounds 11-14 Thrilla in Manila

Loch Ness Monster A Ile St. Louis

The Seine has been in flood for two weeks. The water reached twenty feet above the normal flow level. Back in 1984 the Seine rose to inundate the rapid quais. Thankfully the waters receded then and now. But I’d love to see IM Pei’s pyramid underwater like that Tom Cruise movie EDGE OF TOMORROW. The […]

Where Did He Go

Sometimes men do stupid things. Women know how stupid. Men could care less.

Muhammad Walking New York

Back in 1978 I was walking down 5th Avenue around the 70s. On a summer afternoon. A large crowd was approaching from downtown. Hundreds of people. Traffic was stopped dead. A tangible electricity emanated from that direction and several seconds later I saw why. Muhammad Ali. I stopped in my tracks and Ali crossed the […]

Anti-War Ali

In 1966 Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted in the US Army saying “I ain’t got nothing against no Viet Cong; no Viet Cong never called me nigger.” And that was the truth. So said all of us. Bring the troops home.