Monthly Archives: March 2020

Biloxi Wintah January 1975

March 24, 2020 – 2:37 am

An hour after sunset we passed through Ocala. The cowboy town looked mean and I drove the speed limit. Florida was a big state at 55. I joined the Interstate after Lake City. Old Bill drunkenly bitched about the trucks. “Not many other options.” I wasn’t keen on driving through the backroads of the Panhandle. […]

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Loss Of Smell and Taste Symptoms – Covid 19

March 23, 2020 – 1:51 pm

Your sense of smell is closely tied to your sense of taste. The human nose has 10cm squared, while dogs possess 170cm squared. Back in the 20th Century Doctor Joyce Brothers theorized that human survival depended more on our smelling bad and tasting worse than intelligence, but not all of us smell the same. I’ve […]

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The Irresponsibility Of Americans

March 23, 2020 – 10:16 am

THE HILL published an opinion piece by the under-30 Libertarian writer Kristin Tate, in which she accuses the middle class and poor of living beyond their means. It is true that 70% of Americans have $1000 or less in their savings and most households live HTM or ‘Hand to Mouth’ from paycheck to paycheck, despite […]

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Kenny Rodgers RIP

March 21, 2020 – 1:19 pm

In 1976 there were two C&W 45s on punk-dominated CBGB’s jukebox. JOLEEN and Kenny’s RUBY. We played them at the end of the night along with Elvis Costello’s ALLISON because the bartender sharing that name thought it was written about her. RIP Kenny. I loved you always. To view RUBY, please go to the following […]

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A Journal of the Plague Year

March 19, 2020 – 7:21 pm

I just read Daniel Dafoe’s A JOURNAL FROM A YEAR OF PLAGUE. The epidemic ravaged London, but ended for good in 1666 and spring came with flowers. Same as this year. First Paragraph: “It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the […]

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