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…Somebody “pulled the Negro out of the car by his belt.” The drivers “hit him several times with their fists and knocked him to the ground.” One of the drivers pulled out a knife. “Before you kill him,” he said, “I want to put the same scars on him that he put on Brown.” Said…
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never recover. – Hank Elisa Leonelli (1981) Q. You’ve been drinking constantly, California Burgundy and beer, ever since we got here, and in your books, like in your life, you drink all the time. Why all this drinking? A. Oh, drinking! Listen, I’ve been…
People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being. – Don DeLillo From Santee “Race Walk Capital of the USA” to Antalya and Paris by Foot! Welcome to the 2024 USATF National Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay Championships & Santee…
My first Groundhog’s Day, February 2, 1947, I was forty days old in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. 301 Foundry Street. The less grand side of town. Big old Victorian owned by salt of the earth grandparents. Now a parking lot for a community college. Not many years later my uncle took me out hunting for the meteorological…
All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. – Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Published (February 1, 1962) Back in the mid-Seventies, I lived in a tiny bungalow, two…
“The girls are in skimpy panties and bras, the dudes in underwear, so you see what everybody is working with from the jump. Even if their face is a 7, their body is a 20.” – Breaux Greer, American javelin thrower. Saw this book and I sent a fan letter to the author. I’d buy…
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On January 13, 1904, a mob of white people lynched a Black man known as General Lee in Reevesville, South Carolina, for…
A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned. – Naval Ravikant 20 Quotes for a Mindfully Happy & Healthy New Year! By Athena Staik, Ph.D. Happiness is more than getting what you want. A happy and healthy New Year begins with you. It’s…
“Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.” – Stephen King, It A quick thought experiment. Instead of talking about the routine slaughter of innocent children and our fellow citizens in schools, banks, nightclubs, and grocery stores. Movie theaters, fitness centers, bowling alleys. Parades. Imagine we were talking about Islamic terrorist attacks. Hezbollah. Hamas. Imagine there…
I haven’t seen the movie, but I read the book. And I have studied some history. The Sooner State was settled by cheaters, that’s how it got its name. Rules don’t conquer territory. During the early 20th century, members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma were systematically murdered by white settlers. Yet outside the Osage…