Category Archives: youth

Monterey Pop Festival 1967

June 18, 2017 – 10:52 pm

Fifty years ago the Monterey Pop Festival was held south of San Francisco. “Three days of understanding. Even the cops grooved with us,” sang Eric Burdon of the Animals later. Many regarded the gathering of 60,000 counter-culture music fans to be the opening act of the famed Summer of Love. Check out the line-up. Friday […]

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Young Charlotte

February 19, 2017 – 7:35 am

Charlotte Rampling Forever a goddess.

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The Vanishing of Belief

February 2, 2017 – 2:14 pm

My Aunt Gloria loved to tell the story about my baptism. The christening was on a hot June day in 1952. Her husband was my godfather. He wore Marine officer whites and a smile. Uncle Jack was glad to be back from Korea. He was lucky to have survived the Chosin Reservoir. The priest recited […]

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Big Penis Good Luck

January 13, 2017 – 2:59 am

My childhood house in Maine shows up on GoogleEarth. It’s the fifth house from the bluffs overlooking Portland Harbor. To be truthful I’m never sure if it’s the right one, since most homes in the suburbs look the same. Same houses, same lives, same desires, however several years ago an 18 year-old Briton on the […]

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GOING SOUTH

December 11, 2016 – 7:34 am

Several years ago I watched Charlotte Rampling on the BBC. The actress had been a fantasy of mine after seeing THE NIGHT PORTER and the 60-year-old was promoting her new film by Laurent Cantent’s HEADING SOUTH. This movie featured a rare examination of sex, lust, and lust set in Haiti of the 1970s and Charlotte […]

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