Monthly Archives: November 2024

Calm Before The Inner Calm

November 6, 2024 – 11:00 am

I’m sitting in front of Larina. Calm under a sky deepening to velvet blue. Velvet not dark Not many people on the street. Not many cars either. Calm Maybe the calm before Kamala___ In my mind the USA has elected a woman A hundred and four years After they got the vote___ A warm autumn […]

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US Elections 2024

November 6, 2024 – 9:47 am

Donald Trump has resumed his role as Leader of the American people in a devastating loss for the Kamala Harris. Her Kumbaya Joy campaign after Biden’s protracted abdication coupled with the wars in Ukraine, inflation, and emigration left the Democratic Vice President little time to combat the GOP leader’s headstart. The defections of Latinos and […]

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Larry Flynnt – the Voice of Freedom

November 5, 2024 – 9:49 am

Larry Flynt publisher of Hustler credited his passion for the First Amendment with being sentenced to up to 25 years on obscenity charges in 1976. “I think I had to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentence me to 25 years in prison before I realized it was something that could no […]

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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 […]

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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 . […]

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