Monthly Archives: July 2024

It’s Da Shoes

July 26, 2024 – 10:01 am

As a doorman in New York, London, Paris, Hamburg, le Sud de France, and Beverly Hills from the 1970s I to the 1990s the bosses always asked about my criteria for admission. Many other doormen said, “Shoes.” Me, it was a look. A look like you wanted a good time without any trouble, although I […]

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Pawh Den Always

July 24, 2024 – 8:55 am

Monsoons late. Months after Songkran. Buffalo wander the rice paddies. Looking for their old friend. Den Khongbua Grandfather gone. Kwai remember him. Den the only one Who knew their names. Den Gone But not from memory Kwai. Not gone forever. Not from our memories too. I see you soon, grandfather Den But not today.

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Horseshoe Crabs And Us 2050

July 24, 2024 – 8:33 am

I have visions Not dreams But visions Of the Future 2050___ Sitting on the B54 bus Traveling down Myrtle Avenue__ Summertime No cars None___ The smell of nature No car fumes More trees More flowers Vegetable gardens too. People walking Riding bikes 8 billion people in 2024 Less people in 2050 A lot less The […]

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May 30 1992 – Bangkok – Journal

July 23, 2024 – 10:49 am

Two mornings ago I making a call at the overseas phone booth in the Malaysia Hotel. A young bearded man entered the lobby. We had last seen each other in Kathmandu 1990 after a trek to Lantang Glacier. Upon departure westward to Europe I had told Dice, if he was in Bangkok, then you should […]

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Marx’s vision of Communism – Professor Bertell Ollman 1977

July 23, 2024 – 8:59 am

Herbert Marcuse August in the middle of the 20th century you remains an Impossible Dream to those theorists except of utopia certain socio historical possibilities. Chicken advance and wealth technology and science extends the boundaries not only of the real the ways we found potential can be realized. Today’s production goods and knowledge Heather with […]

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