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Lobster Thermidor
Annual Kentucky Derby Party
By: - May 03rd, 2015It's over in a couple of minutes after a log buildup. For the past six years Lisa Bklackmer and Michelle Jensen have hosted an annual Derby party as a benefit for breast cancer. This time the big screen and lawyer's office was not available. Lisa was in the dumps about it. I suggested the Eclipse Mill Gallery. She wavered. Then I offered to bring Lobster Thermidor. That clinched it. The party was awesome but everyone ragged on me when I copped out.
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The Pledge
A Poetic Pact
By: - May 03rd, 2015A declaration of commitment to a voyage upstream to explore the cave of dream and memory.
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God Is Dead
We're On Our Own
By: - May 03rd, 2015Faced with the unfathomable and irrational, fragile and fallible mankind invented God. That explained everything. Then as Nietzsch stated God died. We killed Him. Nothing new. But now what? Without sin and fear of punishment why do we do the right thing? Heaven and hell are here and now.
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Kiss Me Kate
Daughter Fourth in Line
By: - May 02nd, 2015It's good to have a backup plan. Prince Williams and Kate, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, have done it again. Doomed to a redundant and irrelevant career their infant girl is Fourth in line for the British Monarchy. She will spend a life tended to hand and footman showing up for Royal occasions looking as bored as we are.
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Lights Out
End Game of Creation
By: - Apr 30th, 2015The end is not near but inevitable. Eons from now the dark sky. Stars racing away too far to see. Or exhausted of radiant energy. Perceived infinity in fact finite. Not Armageddon rather a universe of dust and debris. No more big bang for the buck. The paradox of our egocentric speck of insignificance.
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Up the River
Deep into Our Hearts of Darkness
By: - Apr 29th, 2015Pushing each other up river deep into the cave of horrific memories. Fangs ripping at the flesh of self.
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Smarts
Older Not Always Wiser
By: - Apr 27th, 2015Reflecting on mistakes of youth. Laments of kids nowah days. Truth is we were not better.. Takes time to know that.
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Sandbar Inn
AWeek on the Beach
By: - Apr 27th, 2015A vow of a week on the beach each spring and fall. Time to read and write.
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Oceans
Primal Tides Surging Within Us
By: - Apr 27th, 2015On stubby fins, eventual limbs, sea creatures crawled onto dry land. The ocean still pulses within us as warm saline blood. It defines a primal urge to return to the deep revealed in the joy on her face.
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Time and Tide
Erosion of More than Beaches
By: - Apr 27th, 2015Shocking erosion of the beaches. Brutal winter storms getting ever worse. Dance of the damned oblivious to decline and fall of life as we know it.
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Off Season
Art in Narrow Streets
By: - Apr 27th, 2015A now annual early spring visit to Provincetown. Walking the narrow streets of the once quaint and affordable fishing village on the Lower Cape.
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Murder Building
University Road Harvard Square
By: - Apr 27th, 2015Rents were cheap in The Murder Building a sprawling complex for artists and musicians on University Road in Harvard Square.
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Tampa
Down Home with James Brown
By: - Apr 26th, 2015On the way to New Orleans decades ago took a detour to visit Phil Bleeth and formar Moroccan model Corinna. She was about to give birth to child model, daytime soap star and later Baywatch Babe Jasmine Bleeth. The four of us caught James Brown in a Tampa basketball court.
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Max's Kansas City
Steak, Lobester, Chic Peas and Stars
By: - Apr 26th, 2015Restauranteur Mickey Ruskin settled tabs by swapping for art with Andy Warhol and other art stars of the Pop era in New York. During happy hour for the price of a nursed glass of wine starving artists survived on chicken wings. Sticking around to catch the glam floor show.
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Consigliore
Mentor and Friend
By: - Apr 26th, 2015During ongoing dialogues about art, food, music, history, philosophy and literature my friend and consigliore Robert Henriquez brings a lot to the table. During the off season there is an annual seminar entailing intensive research and discussion.
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Guns
Boys and Their Toys
By: - Apr 26th, 2015Every boy needs a gun. Bang bang. Not just one would do, like Tom Mix. I needed double six shooters like my hero Hopalong Cassidy.
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Apathy
Out of the Mouths of Babes
By: - Apr 26th, 2015My freshman chemistry lab partner at Brandeis later blew up a bank as a Weatherperson. Abbie Hoffman was a senior when I was a freshman. I had coffee with Angela Davis in the snack bar. We marched and protested. Memories of radical 1960s failed to impress my college students. Not interested in changing the world they just wanted jobs and the good life.
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Mad Max
Oh My Canada
By: - Apr 26th, 2015The visiting curator for Canada was not quite up to a night on the town.
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Fear Eats Itself
Gnawing at Memory
By: - Apr 25th, 2015Trapped in the wild an animal will gnaw at and amputate it leg in order to regain its freedom. Is it any different from the artist struggling for liberation from restive memory?
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Birthday
Twilight of the Don
By: - Apr 25th, 2015Under my roof he would proclaim laying down the law. Losing power over a family in conflict during the last days of the Don.
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Lotus
Benignly Resisting Authority
By: - Apr 25th, 2015Breaking away from repression she spent several years in the Orient. Returning home there was a harrowing conflict during a holiday dinner.
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Summer of Love
Rescue of a Runaway
By: - Apr 25th, 2015During the Summer of Love Scott McKenzie sang "If you're going to San Francisco wear some flowers in your hair." In the Lower East Side we rescued a Flower Child from the reality of an escape from suburbia.
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Fence
Back Yard Barbecue
By: - Apr 25th, 2015The landlord Mr. Padziba provided a delivery of old doors. With my pal Gerry we created a fence enclosing the patio behind my storefront in the Lower East Side.
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Harry Bikes
Slandered by Rolling Stone
By: - Apr 25th, 2015It was a setup. Bill Cardoso sent his roommate David Felton to interview me about Mel Lyman and his Fort Hill gang of zealots. In the Rolling Stone cover story Felton wrote about me as an ersatz political thug and Lyman foe dubbed Harry Bikes.
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Beauty of the Beast
Negotiating the Labyrinth of Self
By: - Apr 13th, 2015Mythology of the Minotaur the beast that must be fed human sacrifices. The artist in the labyrinth looking for self and a way to unwind its thread.
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