Monthly Archives: November 2023

GUNGA DIN by Rudyard Kipling

November 11, 2023 – 11:44 pm

I was chokin’ mad with thirst, An’ the man that spied me first Was our good old grinnin’, gruntin’ Gunga Din. ’E lifted up my ’ead, An’ he plugged me where I bled, An’ ’e guv me ’arf-a-pint o’ water green. It was crawlin’ and it stunk, But of all the drinks I’ve drunk, I’m […]

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GUNGA DIN by Rudyard Kipling

November 11, 2023 – 8:33 pm

When I was a young boy, I loved the movie GUNGA DIN. The hero was an outcast water-boy. The lowest of the low in the ranks of the British Empire, but Rudyard Kipling recognized their worth to a man dying of thirst and wrote the following poem. GUNGA DIN BY RUDYARD KIPLING You may talk […]

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Last Shot of WWI

November 11, 2023 – 8:14 am

Last night in Charlotte NC Barack Obama spoke about ending the war in Iraq. Our troops left that country in Dec 2011, but the USA maintains a large presence in Afghanistan. Only yesterday two soldiers were killed there. The president vowed to bring our troops home by 2014. VP Biden ended his speech with a […]

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WALTZING MATILDA the Pogues

November 11, 2023 – 1:05 am

The Fleet in the Dardanelles. April 25, 1915. The British Empire versus The Ottoman Empire. Bloody disaster for Ireland. Only one Dubliner officer survived the landing and of the 1,012 Dubliners who landed, just 11 survived the Gallipoli campaign unscathed. And the rest of the Anzacs fared no better. Fucking the tea bag General Staff. […]

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NOVEMBER 7, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

November 10, 2023 – 11:58 am

Election Day in New York. At stake is the governorship of Albany. Hugh Carey is the narrow favorite over his GOP opponent. I can’t vote for either and will cast my ballot for the Communist Party candidate Jarvis Tyner. It’s 11am. My coffee is finished and I will leave the apartment shortly to vote and […]

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