Monthly Archives: September 2011

Help Mr. Wizard

September 26, 2011 – 4:37 am

Mr. Wizard was an animated character from the early 1960s cartoon TOOTER TURTLE. The show ran a mere 39 episodes, however the main protagonist’s call for salvation from an impossible dilemma remains a popular cry for the desperate. “Help Mr. Wizard.” The magical lizard solved problems with wisdom and magic. His advice at the end […]

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How So Europe

September 25, 2011 – 12:03 pm

The bar is now featuring ABBA GIMMIE GIMME GIMMIE A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT. I feel so very 1979. And last night I danced to IT’S RAINING MEN at the RAF Luxembourg Grand Ball. Europe. The Old World. And me. To hear GIMME GIMME GIMME, please go to this URL

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Mea Culpa

September 25, 2011 – 11:45 am

as packed with Russians and the gamblers playing 21 looked like losers. 1000 Euros would vanish fast in a bad crowd. We retreated to the Hotel de Paris and I drank a gin-tonic. Alex Cohort opted for an Armagnac. It had been bottled well back in the last century. Charles glowed with the osmosic influx […]

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Dead Man Walking Dead

September 24, 2011 – 5:17 am

The State of Georgia executed Troy Davis on September 21, 2011. The method of death was injection with lethal dosages of chemicals. His last words protested his innocence. “I’m not the one who personally killed your son, your father, your brother.” Davis paid the ultimate price for the death of an off-duty policeman at a […]

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If This Is Bruxelles, Then____

September 23, 2011 – 12:00 pm

On Saturday morning I left the residence in Luxembourg for Bruxelles. My lovely train ride through the southern forests of Belgium ended at a graceless capitol city’s graceless terminal, but my good friend, Vonelli was waiting outside in a Citroen Picasso mini-van. We hadn’t seen each other in a good decade and ten years was […]

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