Monthly Archives: September 2024

March 6 1991 – Palu, Sulawesi – Journal

September 5, 2024 – 2:25 pm

After a week’s diving on Bunaken I was lucky enough to catch the KM Karuna from Bitung, the port for Manado, at the top of Sulawesi. The liner cruised the jungled shore heading east to Borneo. The German-built ship is spacious and only one other Mistah is aboard. A Dutchman. Even after fourhundred years of […]

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Welcome To the 20th Century – LIRR – MONTAUK

September 5, 2024 – 10:32 am

Tuesday afternoon the 2:45 PM train from Montauk to Jamaica was late. The EMD DE30AC locomotive crawls into the station of the dual standard gauge tracks stopping on Gate 1, as it does every day, although rarely on time. The locomotive was built between 1997–1999 by Electro-Motive Division in the Super Steel Plant in Schenectady, […]

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Long Island RR Crossing

September 5, 2024 – 10:09 am

on a LIRR train from Montauk. Racing through the southern tier of Suffolk county. Cars stopped at train crossings. The blank faces of commuters released from work___ I so wish I was one of them. Accepting my fate of 9 to 5 job monotony. If in a car Home only minutes away Wife or second […]

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

September 2, 2024 – 6:47 pm

Flowers are exploding all across the East Village community gardens. The temperature is in the 90s. The air in our apartment has no oxygen. The streets only have a little more. Alice and I have lived together for the last month. I haven’t worked a day. Alice is heading home to West Virginia for Labor […]

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Make Mine Rare

September 2, 2024 – 12:50 pm

Two Labor Day weekends ago in Maine my brother-in-law and I had several discussions about whether it was better to BBQ with charcoal or gas. The world’s leading leisurologist voted for gas and I bowed to the swami’s greater savvy on this subject. Some subjects you have to leave to the experts.

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