Monthly Archives: January 2024

Babi Yar Ala Gaza

January 5, 2024 – 5:19 pm

On 29–30 September 1941 outside of Kyiv the Nazi occupiers of that city rounded up the city’s Jews and marched them to a ravine called Babi Yar. Throughout the next two days the SS Sondercommando squad massacred some thirty-four thousand men, women, and children. No one was spared, although twenty-nine people survived the killings by […]

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December 27, 1978 – Boston – Journal

January 5, 2024 – 11:26 am

. The visit to my family in the Blue Hills had been comforting, but I hadn’t said a single word about Alice’s possible pregnancy. Not to my parents or sisters or brothers. At the dinner table I saw how proud my father was of his wife and family and I asked, if I would feel […]

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See all, Not Tell All

January 4, 2024 – 9:47 am

Yesterday a New York court released testimonies of several females accusing the late financier Jeffery Epstein of sexual abuse on underage women at his luxurious New York address, an island in the Carribbean, and a ranch out west. Surely there were other destinations he used to entertain friends, politicians, scientists, and the rich and famous […]

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December 22, 1978 – East Village – Journal Entry

January 4, 2024 – 9:45 am

Andy promised to call me this afternoon from Boston. I hoped to stay with instead of my parents in Milton. I waited by the SRO hall phone at the 11th Street SRO. Nothing. I walked over to the St. Marks Bookstore, browsing Peter Matthieson’s THE SNOW LEOPARD. I wished I was a plane to Kathmandu. […]

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Journal Entry – January 4, 1978

January 4, 2024 – 1:00 am

I’ve slept with Fran several times this week. She wants to nail down my freedom. I don’t know why. Last night at One-Fifth Bert, Cecile, and I discussed romance. Bert is a homosexual portrait painter with a receding hairline and Cecilean older woman with a very avant-grade view of innocence. She loves make-up and dressing […]

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