Monthly Archives: January 2020

Combat Zone Amnesia

January 11, 2020 – 2:10 am

In the 60s urban social scientists suggested to Boston officials that the city create an adult entertainment area between the bus station on Boylston Street and Chinatown to contain the wickedness of mankind. The experiment green-lighted prostitution, drag queens, piano bars, go-go bars, rent boys, and pornography along Washington Street and the adjacent blocks. The […]

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A Good Job

January 11, 2020 – 1:44 am

In my youth my father said to me “If you can’t do a job right, then why even start?” His statement sought to instill a desire to accomplish an assigned household chore to the best of my ability. Sweeping out the garage, empty the trash, weed the yard ad infinitum. We lived in the suburbs […]

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The End of Urban Renewal

January 11, 2020 – 1:15 am

Billions and billions of dollars have been spent on reviving the collapsed urban centers of America. Minor league baseball parks adorn forlorn cities in the Rust Belt. Even more desolate pedestrian malls mark failed efforts. St. Louis, Peoria, KC, Des Moines, Detroit, Providence, West Palm Beach and countless other towns have nocturnal populations numbering in […]

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The Border of Tanzania – 2019 Kili Initiative # 21

January 8, 2020 – 9:07 pm

That night I dreamed about Mount Washington. My father had driven us to the summit in summer of 1958. The wind ripped through our clothing and my father said, “Good thing is isn’t winter.” A rumble filled my ears and I feared an avalanche, but it was Preacherman grumbling the Wrath of God at 5:30 […]

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Black and White TV From Havana

January 7, 2020 – 4:48 pm

Key West marks the southern terminus of US 1. In 1980 I spend several weeks there and stayed in a small hotel off Duval Street. TV reception for the Miami stations was weak, however the signals from Havana came in crisp and clear. Most of the programming served Socialism in Spanish, however one station broadcasted […]

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