Monthly Archives: July 2017

A Life Worth Living

July 28, 2017 – 2:15 pm

“If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.” Friedrich Engels

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Faster Than Light Beauty

July 28, 2017 – 2:05 pm

I wish for a time machine to take me back to London. 1968. Francoise Hardy on a motorbike. I would have had a lot of competition and even though I would have only been sixteen, a good time would have been had by all who want to be friends. Je l’adore. In 1968 through eternity […]

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House On Fire

July 28, 2017 – 11:03 am

One night back in 1971 my friend and I were returning from a Sha-Na-Na concert in Boston. Mark drove along the Jamaica Way and after rounding the circle at the entrance to Arnold’s Arboretum he sped up toward Forest Hills. His Nova had a lot of pull for a V-6. Both of us were digging […]

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THE WIND CRIED MARY / Jimi Hendrix

July 28, 2017 – 9:03 am

To see our eternal hero go to this URL

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YOU BET I COULD Uschi Obermaier

July 28, 2017 – 9:00 am

Several years ago Duncan Hannah posted this black and white photo of Uschi Obermaier. I was struck by her free beauty and the fact that I had never heard of the 1960s icon. In an article from the Independent Uschi railed against working-class Munich and said, “I used to wish for a plane crash, just […]

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