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Old Miss
Lowering the Confederate Flag
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Through the consensus of students and faculty the state flag of Mississippi, with its confederate stars and bars, no longer is raised on the campus of Old Miss. The heritage of slavery dies hard in the land where cotton was king.
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Vines
Fences and Neighbors
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Good fences make good neighbors. Particularly when swathed in vines.
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Sammo
Body Count
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Poetics of the grim reaper. Account of whom the gods love.
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Muddy Waters
Got His Mojo Working
By: - Oct 28th, 2015Young British rockers Stones, Yardbirds, Clapton, Beck lapped up Muddy's licks on those iconic Chess Records. Copped his tunes some morphed from Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues. Always a thrill when he came to town and held court.
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Theseus
In and Out
By: - Oct 26th, 2015Going deep into confronting works of art and performances. Bombarded by every more fragmented nuggets and facets of information. Formed into some cohesion then finding the thread back out. Always leaving something behind. Ritual sacrifice to the muse binding the wounds of critical thinking.
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Milestones
Turning the Corner
By: - Oct 25th, 2015Places to go and things to be done. Hacking and coughing waking up to first day of 75th year.
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Kicks
From Beatle Boots to Docksiders
By: - Oct 24th, 2015After a year or more shoes are like old friends. Well worn and beat up they glide easy where you want to go. Now 75 it's not about fashion. Back in the day it was strictly Beatle Boots and pimp kicks from Crystal's in the Zone.
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Unequivocal
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Subway Sirens
Queens of the T
By: - Oct 17th, 2015All over the T in every station that same girl in the ubiquitous Ann Taylor ads selling attitude and generic career girl fashions.
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Letter to Chris Busa
For No Good Reason
By: - Oct 10th, 2015For no good reason. Remembering recent encounters in Provincetown I wrote to my friend Chris Busa. We don't do this often enough. Every thought and impulse evokes the best and worst of us. How Pinteresque.
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Bicycle Thief
Like Gatsby
By: - Oct 10th, 2015My French friend Alain Didot was a dead ringer for film star Alain Delon. But in spirit was more like Genet or Belmondo in Breathless. Today in an e mail from Thailand Phil Bleeth mentioned our existential friend which inspired these lines.
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Harvard Mug
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Mingus Ah Um
Pithecanthropus Erectus
By: - Oct 09th, 2015Mingus and Monk were stone cold gone. Another way of saying total out there genius.
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Dizzy
Grroving High with a Bahai
By: - Oct 08th, 2015I named by parakeet Dizzy Gillespie. Hanging with iconic hipster in a cruise of Boston Harbor with arts elder Elma Lewis.
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Century
Benchmark of Time and Space
By: - Oct 08th, 2015It takes guts to grow old. Such courage to live into one's ninety's like my mom. Or the remarkable, adventuresome Rikki Rudd, beloved by the Berkshire arts community, who has just passed at the daunting age of 102.
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Gravy
Dinner in Naples with Paulie Walnuts
By: - Oct 06th, 2015Pasta made with the ink of octopus or squid served with tiny clams is a great Italian delicacy. But not to Paulie Walnuts in Naples during an episode of the Sopranos.
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Every Other Sunday
Dad in the Kitchen
By: - Oct 06th, 2015On maid's day off, every other Sunday and Thursdays my Sicilian father rustled up the grub.
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Whipped Cream
Sweetens the Agita
By: - Oct 06th, 2015When coping with the slings and arrows of life a dollop of whipped cream soothes the soul.
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Death in Boston
Where Cabots Speak Only to Lowells
By: - Oct 06th, 2015While lecturing at the Copley Society the architect Frank Lloyd Wright told the audience " What Boston needs is one hundred first class funerals."
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Shooting into the Ranks
The Mighty Are Falling
By: - Oct 04th, 2015Every more common reports of friends diseased and dead. Given our age my friend said "They're shooting into the ranks."
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Festival
Art in Narrow Streets
By: - Oct 03rd, 2015Come early and stay late. Staying for a week by the sea for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. Four intense days of performances bookended by walks on the beach.
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Random
Polka Dots and Moon Beams
By: - Oct 03rd, 2015Shocked to learn that a former neighbor in Annisquam, Ben Hedbloom, died last week.
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Rastas in P'Town
Taste of Home Cooking
By: - Oct 02nd, 2015With seasonal work visas the Jamaicans staff Provincetown restaurants and motels. For a good meal that reminds them of home there is takeout at the colorful food shack on Shankpainter road. The goat curry stew we tried was simply divine.
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Vico
Privincetown Tales
By: - Oct 01st, 2015We met our artist friends Vico and Grace for a leisurely Sunday brunch on a glorious fall day in Provincetown. With full body language, shrugs, and accents Vico entertained us with a hilarious story of a scary encounter.
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Reign in Spain
Tropical Depression
By: - Sep 30th, 2015Last week in Provincetown we had glorious late September weather. Today a tropical storm is soaking the Berkshires. It's a good day to just stay in bed so she said.
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