Category Archives: america

George Washington In London

February 21, 2022 – 8:12 am

Several years ago I was waiting for Brock Dundee in Trafalgar Square in London. Tourists were mounting the four lions at the foot of Lord Nelson’s Column for photos and art lovers were queuing before the National Gallery to view the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition, while busy Londoners strode across the square for various rendezvouses […]

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AMERICA – Simon and Garfunkel

February 5, 2022 – 1:51 pm

We have all gone looking for America. The land is all around us from Sea to Shining Sea The people are here there and everywhere. E pluribus unum. Out of many one. We are we. Like it or not. Get and your car and drive from Coast to Coast. The car won’t be there forever […]

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JOURNAL ENTRY – JANUARY 21, 1979 – EAST VILLAGE

January 23, 2022 – 8:28 am

Last evening of mishaps, adventure, and parties was marked by a midnight tragedy. Bill Yusk, a Dixie gambler, Doctor Bertoni, a lead anesthesiologist at NYU, and I were speaking to Haoui Montauk, who was working at the door of Rock Lounge located at where Jane Street ran into the Hudson. The three of us were […]

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No Bookee No Fuckee

November 9, 2021 – 1:44 pm

Throughout the centuries the Vatican has maintained an Index of Prohibited Books comprised of proscribed authors such as Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Gide, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Rene Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Locke, and Galileo. Nazi Germany extolled the SA and SS and […]

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Deja Vu From Holyoke

October 19, 2021 – 11:49 am

Several years ago I visited Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts for the first time in decades. My sister, her husband, and daughter slowly inspected each and every painting, while I sought out Northeast classics such as Fitz Hugh Lane’s OWL’S HEAD, Winslow Homer’s THE FOG, and Childe Hassam’s BOSTON COMMONS AT SUNSET. I have admired […]

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