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With A Bowl Of Breakfast Surreal

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With A Bowl Of Breakfast Surreal

If you can dream it, you can do it. – Walt Disney Lottery Winner Moves To Key West & Becomes A Famous Artist In His Old Age…. Uncle Walt Disney Never Dreamed Goofy Would Be Played By Matt Gaetz…. Putin Forces Ukrainians Onto Reservations. What The Fuck, Vlad?…. 2-4-6-0-7- You can figure the last number…

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Kenny Moore By Frank Shorter

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Kenny Moore By Frank Shorter

integrity humility generosity I first met Kenny Moore at the 1969 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Miami, Florida, during the 10,000 meter championship race. He blew by me on the final straightaway and finished third.  We shook hands, changed out of our spikes and started jogging together to cool down. When we had finished…

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Peter Moore: Art As Shoe As Art

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Peter Moore: Art As Shoe As Art

“Quite frankly, I didn’t know what the hell I wanted to be,” Moore said of his college life. “I was pretty sure I didn’t want to starve. That had no particular appeal to me at all. I had no ambition to be a bohemian.” He seemed like a great artist to me. Getting to Nike…

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The Commitment Hearing

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The Commitment Hearing

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, “Hey, we got a crazy man in the community,” and they’ll begin talking to you. – Ray Bradbury Plump Pimpled Public Defender swears just like the last time there’s…

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My Mother’s Mom

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My Mother’s Mom

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.  – Oliver Wendell Holmes Grandmother must have been about forty-six when I first met her. I was already six weeks old myself and I couldn’t get together with her any sooner. Mom’s parents lived four hundred miles away, before…

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Philadelphia Nativist Riot (Anti-Catholic Race Theory)

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Philadelphia Nativist Riot (Anti-Catholic Race Theory)

The antipathy toward [Irish Catholics] rested not only on their reputation for violence and their religious difference from the bulk of the city’s natives, but also upon their competition for jobs at the lowest occupational levels, their menial status, their foreign aspect and clannishness, and their notorious intemperance. – Dennis Clark Just because our brains…

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Six-Year-Old Runs Marathon

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Six-Year-Old Runs Marathon

You’ve got to know how to compete and win, life goes too god-damned fast…. No one ever said life was fair. – Joan Crawford You say a six-year-old ran a marathon. Really? Casual observation of contemporary America suggests there are grownups who have yet to total 26.2 miles of running in their entire lifetimes. I…

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Art Is Painful

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Art Is Painful

I like art as thought better than art as work. I’ve always maintained this. It’s important to me that I don’t get my hands dirty. It’s not because I’m instinctively lazy. It’s a declaration: art is thought. – Dan Flavin Pain  is inescapable,  and must be met  with suffering.   Suffering is raw  and must be…

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Haunted By Demons

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Haunted By Demons

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a…

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Sunday Afternoon (Not Entirely Broke With A Tailwind)

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Sunday Afternoon (Not Entirely Broke With A Tailwind)

The road must eventually lead to the whole world. – Jack Kerouac Practically blissed out. Barker Ajax driving back home  from a brief errand or two. You have to know Barker to understand. He’s 75 and the sun is bright  and the sky blue and the music is playing.I have been to the drugs store, he thinks. Government selling hash brownies…

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