Monthly Archives: December 2021

The Wasteland of TV

December 26, 2021 – 6:51 am

TS Eliot wrote his groundbreaking elegy to commemorate the slaughter of a generation in WWI. April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. The poet’s first four lines have symbolized the boredom of waiting for summer to millions, but the wasteland […]

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From Here To Timbucktu

December 26, 2021 – 2:38 am

When I was a child of the 50s in Maine, Timbukto symbolized the most remote destination on this Earth, although Bob Hope and Bing Crosby never made a ‘road movie’ to there. One day during geography class my teacher at Pine Grove Primary School in Falmouth Foresides traced her finger across the world map to […]

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Dawn Davenport – Cha Cha Heels for Christmas – Divine / John Waters

December 25, 2021 – 1:05 am

Nothing says a shitty Christmas better than Divine’s tirade in John Waters FEMALE TROUBLE. TO WATCH THIS SCENE, PLEASE GO TO THE FOLLOWING URL:

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MOVEABLE XMAS by Peter Nolan Smith

December 24, 2021 – 4:46 am

Christmas 2014 belongs to the past. That year I was too sick to travel to visit my family in Boston and I passed Christmas Eve hacking clear my lungs like Doc Holiday on his last legs at the Hotel Glenwood. Reputedly the tubercular gun fighter looked at his bare feet and spoke his last words, […]

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11:39PM

December 22, 2021 – 8:48 pm

A little before midnight. Five years ago I worked at the diamond exchange of 47th Street. There are no customers on the winter solstice. Only the rich have money, Richie Boy had sold several big-money items to his wealthy friends. $260,000 for a magnificent sapphire for an investment banker, $190,000 for a stunning Fancy Yellow […]

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