Monthly Archives: November 2023

November 23, 1978 – East Village – Journal Entry – VDO

November 22, 2023 – 12:59 pm

Thanksgiving 1978. Rainy. High 45. Low 31. LSD. I cook the turkey without a gauge on the stove. It came out perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-K8dJuuZz8

By Peter | Posted in East Village, journal, VDO | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Irish Revenge

November 22, 2023 – 11:53 am

I can remember what I was wearing on November 22, 1963. A white shirt, sky blue tie, and dark navy trousers were the boy’s uniform at Our Lady of the Foothills south of the Neponset River. It was a beautiful autumn day. Then Mother Mary Superior spoke over the intercom and tearfully announced, “President Kennedy […]

By Peter | Posted in history, VDO | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

THE BIRTH OF THE BOUFFANT by Peter Nolan Smith

November 22, 2023 – 10:59 am

In the late-18th Century Marie Antoinette’ coiffeur sought to camouflage the queen’s baldness by upsweeping her thinning tresses to cascade over her ears. The femme fatales of the ancien regime imitated ‘le bouffant, until the royal coif lost its popularity with the Marie’s final haircut by the guillotine. Two centuries later Jackie Kennedy, JFK’s wife, […]

By Peter | Posted in 60s, Beauty | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH by Peter Nolan Smith

November 22, 2023 – 9:28 am

Gloomy clouds over Lake Michigan hovered low in the October sky. A black Suburban sped west on Route 2. The driver hadn’t seen a car since leaving St. Ignace and this late in the year no state troopers patrolled the two-laner traversing the Upper Peninsula. He cruised though Nabinway at 85, then stamped on his […]

By Peter | Posted in 60s, conspiracy | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Fifty-Nine Years Later

November 22, 2023 – 5:23 am

Today no one in New York had mentioned JFK’s bad day in Dallas. Neither the BBC, New York Times, nor Al-Jazeera wrote a single line about the November 22, 1963 tragedy, proving the old adage that as you get old you forget and as you get older you are forgotten. 51 years might be a […]

By Peter | Posted in 60s, america, Crime, myth, politics | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)