Category Archives: Beast

Death By Gravity

January 9, 2013 – 5:28 pm

Two days ago a LA man in his 60s was killed by the toppling of his basement refrigerator. To paraphrase the last line from KING KONG; “It was not beer that killed the man, but the beauty of beer.”

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Dead Fish Auction

June 24, 2012 – 6:30 pm

In the winter of 1969 a foul storm blew an unknown sea creature onto Duxbury Beach south of Boston. The WBZ radio announcer reported it to be a ‘sea monster’. My brother, sister, and I jumped into our VW and drove through a hard rain to a forlorn stretch of beach. A crowd was gathered […]

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Flying Sharks

June 24, 2012 – 6:22 pm

Steven Spielberg’s JAWS came out in 1975. I saw the film in Gloucester with my good friend Andy Kornfeld. The next day we went to Good Harbor Beach. Families were playing in the sand. No one was in the sea. Andy and I tested it with our toes. The water temperature was perfect. We both laid […]

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Beauty as a Beast

March 27, 2012 – 1:25 pm

Photo and painting of Lady Caroline Blackwood “A mermaid who dines upon the bones of her winded lovers.” Robert Lowell husband/poet

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The Iceman’s Eyes

March 1, 2012 – 12:33 pm

After twenty years of studying Oetzi’s DNA, the so-called Iceman, scientists have come to the conclusion that his eyes were brown. Which means he was tall, dark, and handsome, if you like the rugged type.

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