MANZANERO – EN PAZ DESCANSE
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Culture
The late Armando Manzanero was a colleague of mine when I lived in Mexico City in 1967. Following is an extract from my memoir, “Manzanero, Mexico, My Dear Old San Juan, Moi”:
THE GOOD OL’ DEVIL GOES TO GEORGIA
- Written by: Curtis W Long
- Category: Politics
SENATOR Excuse me, Ah’d like to speak to the Secretary of State.
SECRETARY: At your service, suh.
SENATOR: You probably don’t know who ah am...
SECRETARY: You that Senator from South Carolina, raht?
Extracts from the poem TEARS
- Written by: Christopher Barnet
- Category: Culture
1.
in street of warnambool aboriginal name is forgotten i am in garage with gangsters discussing life of batteries perhaps a little something else i cannot discuss here as i watch mr giodorno bruno play a game of golf perhaps another entirely misinterpreted though i listen when he orders a counter lunch from barmaid who is working topless for fee that is so small it covered only necessities
I screamed... please don't eat me*
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Science
Well, I saw the thing comin' out of the sky
It had the one long probe, compound eyee
I commenced to shakin' and I said "ooh-eee"
Looks like a Belostomatidaeeee
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
(One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)
A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (one eye?)
--(Kindly forgive my manipulation of the lyric sample by Sheb Wooley)
The Strange Case of a Danish Submarine -- the UC3 Nautilus
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Science
(This is thought to be the final photo of Kim Wall -- an image capture from a smartphone video -- as she sailed out of Copenhagen Harbor onboard the Nautilus. Seen also is Peter Madsen)
October 21, 2020, UPDATE-- Please see the major updates below, including Peter Madsen’s briefly horrific escape, having threatened guards with a false gun and explosive device wrapped around him,Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, from a Copenhagen prison, where he has been serving a life sentence since 2018.
Read more: The Strange Case of a Danish Submarine -- the UC3 Nautilus
THE INCREDIBLE WHITENESS OF BEING
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Society
The girl brought in by the slave ship
Moved haltingly down the dock.
A client scans her, hip to hip,
Ogles and does gently rock.
Skin-lightening began right there,
Right in that first client’s eyes.
It encompassed both skin and hair;
They’re both part of what he buys.
Under My Thumb
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Politics
Here is a very simple and irrefutable way for anyone to understand how the US, under 45GOP's minuscule but deadly-venomous thumb, is doing with Covid-19 relative to other countries.
For example, the mortality rate in the US per million on Sept. 23, 2020 is just over 600. In Denmark, it is just over 100. Sweden, our beloved Nordic neighbor and which began this pandemic with herd immunization in mind, is at 580.
TWO TALES
- Written by: William Hunn
- Category: Society
TWO TALES
I was in the checkout line at the supermarket when the man in front of me got my attention. He was older, very thin almost frail looking. His basket of stuff was inching toward the cashier on the conveyor.
Excuse me sir, “Do you think you could help me pay for my groceries. I don’t have any money and I need to feed my grandkids”.
Bearly Suicide
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Fiction
She pulled into the picnic area in her faded red VW Jetta. Long, gray-blonde hair cascaded softly over her ears as she leaned over the steering wheel and sighed. With a bony finger, she whisked away a tear tickling her cheek.
Finally, too exhausted to listen any more to the worn Harry Chapin CD or let loose with a full-blown cry, she shut off the engine and got out.
Black Resistance to Slavery(Colonial America)
- Written by: Carol Polcovar
- Category: History
Black Resistance (British America)
Part II in a Series
So to continue our series on Black Resistance to Slavery in America, let’s begin after Columbus discovered the western reaches of India around 1492. Okay, of course, we all know Columbus did not discover the western reaches of India although that was what he wanted to do and that is what he thought he did. What he sought was a short water route to India and the Far East; his theory was if he circumnavigated the globe he would find that route. Of course, he and other Europeans had no idea that they would find another hemisphere and when they found it, they still did not know that they had found another hemisphere. Columbus was not alone in this search. Many European nations were paying explorers to find a way to sail to the Far East and thus break the Venetian monopoly on such a route. European nations needed to go to China and India to purchase goods they could sell back in Europe where there was a big demand for these products, and they wanted to travel there without using the alternate overland route that brought them into the welcoming arms of highway men and assassins or the route controlled by the Princes of Venice.
