Category Archives: language

More Is Not Necessarily More

May 8, 2012 – 12:13 pm

A friend of mine recently castigated my writing with the criticism that I was a sloppy writer. He was speaking the truth and I said, “My father always thought that I was sloppy too.” “You end up writing too much.” Dannett was editor for a famed newspaper’s obit section. “Sometimes more is more.” “I wish [...]

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Casse Toi Brigitte

April 12, 2012 – 3:04 pm

Working at a nightclubs I met a lot of people; famous, infamous, and nobodies. Sometimes I had no idea who was who. One night at Hurrah I tried to stop Mick Jagger from entering Hurrah. The singer of the Rolling Stones was wearing a beard. His bodyguard Tony steered me right. At the Mudd Club [...]

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The Language Of Thieves

April 12, 2012 – 1:15 pm

Back in the 80s I lived on Ile St. Louis with a South African model. Her husband paid the rent. He lived in the South of France, where he had a clothing factory in Biot. Vanesse had lied to her husband and said that I was gay. “I have nothing against ‘gay’. Guy had fought [...]

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WHAT MUST BE SAID by Gunther Grass

April 9, 2012 – 4:14 pm

Poetry by eighty-four year-old Germans is rarely read by anyone, however Gunther Grass’s WHAT MUST BE SAID has reaped the Nobel Prize winner a firestorm of condemnation from Israel and Germany. The Israeli interior minister went so far as to declare the writer of THE TIN DRUM ‘persona non grata’ and demand that Norway stripped [...]

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Origin Of Boob

April 5, 2012 – 4:10 pm

Some words have simple explanations, because we are simple people.

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