Category Archives: animals

TEDDY BEARS’ PICNIC Dave Van Ronk

April 3, 2013 – 8:40 am

Dave Van Ronk was a growling folk singer, who benignly dominated Greenwich Village in the 60s. He mostly played the East Coast due to his refusal to fly. His mode of travel was buses, trains, or a car driven by a young girlfriend. His bearish body hid a gentle heart, which he revealed any time [...]

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DONT FEED THE BEARS by Peter Nolan Smith

April 2, 2013 – 7:20 pm

My second youngest sister has frequently called me a liar. In some ways Pam hasn’t been not wrong, for my perception of reality and remembrance of the past differs from that of family and friends. Several years ago I headed up to Maine for my younger sister’s birthday. Mentioning a woman’s age was taboo, but [...]

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Drone Sweet Drone

February 13, 2013 – 9:53 pm

General Curtis Le May defended his indiscriminate bombing of German and Japanese civilians by saying, “If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.” The much-decorated Air Force general proposed bombing the Vietnamese into ‘the Stone Age’. Presidents Johnson and Nixon bought his high horizon thought. And Nixon actually thought that the 1972 Christmas Bombing [...]

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Howling At The Moon

January 27, 2013 – 1:52 pm

Susan Hannaford on Berlin posted on Facebook that this evening’s full moon was known as the Wolf Moon. The title comes from Native Americans of the Northern Forests, because of the lupine choirs heard around their villages and encampments in the depth of winter. The Sioux called January the time ‘when wolves run together’” Th [...]

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CIRCUS LIFE by Peter Nolan Smith

October 18, 2012 – 9:32 pm

Whenever a married couple or single mother and kid visited me in Pattaya, I took them on a tour of the various tourist points of interest; the Khao Keo outdoor zoo, the Temple of Truth, the biggest wooden structure in the world, and Nong Nooch Gardens. while steering well clear of my usual haunts i.e. [...]

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