Monthly Archives: November 2024

All Souls Day

November 3, 2024 – 2:24 pm

My older brother and I were altar boys in the early 1960s Pre-Vatican II. We were taught to say the Mass in Latin by the diocesan priest assigned to the local church on the edge of the Blue Hills south of Boston. We understood nothing other mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa or ‘forgive […]

By Peter | Posted in holiday, religion, youth | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

November 3, 1978 – East Village – Journal Entry

November 3, 2024 – 12:25 pm

Last night at THE NEW WAVE VAUDEVILLE SHOW at Irving Plaza was a great success, but a debacle for me. Klaus Nomi was the headliner along with a horde of starry-eyed rockers and artists. I was asked to be the security with my friends. None of us were paid, but we guaranteed free drinks . […]

By Peter | Posted in East Village, fame, fights, journal | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Times of Nothing – BET ON CRAZY

November 3, 2024 – 11:08 am

Thanks to Daylight Savings Time sunset will come an hour earlier this evening. I hate the winter shift of an hour. Back in the early 21st century I was working at a diamond store off 5th Avenue. A good address. Not West 47th Street. The Diamond District. A squalid block which processes 89% of the […]

By Peter | Posted in capitalism, evil, freedom | Tagged | Comments (0)

Damn Daylight Savings Time

November 3, 2024 – 11:01 am

“Time is part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects. Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a non-controversial manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently […]

By Peter | Posted in capitalism, evil, freedom | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The Ghosts Of Neanderthals

November 3, 2024 – 9:56 am

I have wandered through the caves near our rice farm in Ban Nok, Thailand. I shut off my light to be immediately cast into utter darkness. Not even a Neanderthal could’t see their hand in such complete blackness. The creation legend from the Old Testament’s Genesis claimed that on the first day of Creation Elohim […]

By Peter | Posted in Before Now, cosmos, culture | Tagged , | Comments (0)