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Better By You, Better Than Me Judas Priest

This weekend I went on a Judas Priest binge. HEADING OUT ON THE HIGHWAY, DIAMONDS AND RUST, ROCKA ROLLA etc, until YouTube popped up the lead singer’s testimony in a 1990 Nevada civil suit accusing the group of inciting two Reno teenagers’ suicide pact via subliminal words ‘do it’ in their reprieve of the Spooky […]

ROADS OF THE FLYOVER by Peter Nolan Smith CHAPTER 3

To the west black clouds towered over the brown spring plain. Hot flashes strobed through the thunderheads. A swirling finger touched the earth. “The Dakota Indians called tornadoes iYumi which means bastard son of Face and Wind “An appropriate name and this one doesn’t look friendly either.” Brock aimed his movie camera at the roiling […]

A MAN OF PEACE – ALAN LAGE

“Why don’t we do this tomorrow?” I was happy in my SRO room on West 11th Street. “B Last January my good friend Alan Lage passed into eternity after a long life on planet Earth. I was listening to the Youngbloods’ GET TOGETHER and thought back to meeting ‘Jim Rockford’ on Moonlight Beach in the […]