Category Archives: superstitions

Sell-Out At The NY Times

October 11, 2021 – 6:52 pm

The New York Times was a great newspaper in my youth. Their reporters helped publish the Pentagon Papers for Daniel Ellsburg, Neil Sheehan ripped off the government’s cloak of invisibility over the Viet-Nam Invasion, and I loved their motto ‘All the news that is fit to print.’ Times have changed since the 70s. The Drug […]

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Friday The 13th

August 13, 2021 – 8:43 am

The number 12 symbolizes completeness for numerologists and 13 has a reputation of a prime number steeped with irregularity. Thirteen is further tarnished by being the number of people at the Last Supper of Jesus. The Turks went so far as to ban the number from their language and the Vikings feared that if thirteen […]

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A Few Steps With A Ghost

July 20, 2021 – 1:34 pm

Walking back from High Falls Quiet sang in the woods Opposite the abandoned Philmont mill Dusk swooned over the western ridge The sun was fare-welling day With a final offering a glow of neon orange. In my sixty-nine years I have seen over twenty-thousand sunsets Many of them alone But not tonight. A spectral figure […]

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Thai Hair-Cut No No

February 18, 2021 – 6:01 pm

Several years ago I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge to a party in Nolita. The city skyline shimmered under a sky dotted by the few stars brilliant enough to pierce New York’s light umbrella. Tourists flashed photos in the dark and the bridge hummed with the passage of cars and trucks. The night was bitter […]

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Superstitions a la Carte

November 13, 2020 – 1:43 pm

Thais have more superstitions about food than the Irish have about the clúrachán, a mischievous fairy, messing with beer and Whiskey. Here’s a short list of Thai don’ts. Eating a double banana will give a woman twins, which must be tough for those showgirls doing the banana tricks at go-gos. Eating before your elders will […]

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