Monthly Archives: July 2024

Super Brat Charlie XCX

July 19, 2024 – 1:04 pm

Charlie XCX Contemp glam pop selling the illusion of attainable wealth and fame to the underclass dreaming to be special. Charlie XCX sings the songs for the forgotten masses wanting a message of we are us. Her hook in YOU’RE ONLY ONE is YOU”RE ONLY ONE and she sings this lyric seventy-three times. In 3:24. […]

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LAST CALL IN BUTTE, MONTANA

July 17, 2024 – 12:45 pm

Tonight I rolled into Butte, Montana. Beating the M&M Bar’s last call. Gram Parsons on the jukebox. “Streets of Baltimore.” Mona loved that song And I never done her wrong___ Last week in Bozeman, Montana I woke to an empty bed No sign of Mona. Only a burning egg And a note saying Don’t follow […]

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Bouffant The 60s the Surf Nantasket

July 17, 2024 – 12:38 pm

In 1966 I met Joe Kane from Mattapan at the Surf Nantasket, a dance Mecca, for teenagers on the South Shore of Boston. Her bouffant was lacquered stiff as a football helmet by Aquanet hair spray. Once a week we went to the Mattapan Oriental theater for the matinee to make out in the balcony. […]

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Watchic Pond Maine 1964

July 16, 2024 – 12:49 pm

Watchic Pond 1964 My grandfather and his friends had dammed a stream to create a lake. A foto of my brothers and sisters reenacting the Titanic sinking. My grandfather Frank A. Smith graduated from Bowdoin in 1912. A college friend drowned in the Titanic sinking. He was older than his classmates having worked the North […]

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January 15 1987 – Journal

July 15, 2024 – 1:05 pm

PLATOON has been a bigger hit than Willem Dafoe thought its completion and the film has garnered nominations for Director Oliver Stone and Willem as best supporting actor for his portrayal as the saintly Sergeant Elias. I’ve never been to war. I’ve fought on the streets many times. A man once shot at me in […]

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