Category Archives: Legend

Zombie Alert

October 29, 2023 – 7:06 am

The word Zombie is derived from the melange of the words zonbi Haitian Creole and nzumbe from the African dialect North Mbundu. Zombies are the walking dead. They have been featured horror movies since their black-and-white introduction in George Romero’s 1968 epic film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Scientists and anthropologists have searched Haiti for […]

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October 18, 1978 – Journal Entry – East Village

October 18, 2023 – 2:06 pm

Alice’s trip to West Virginia was five days long. She returned Tuesday morning fifteen minutes before I went to work as a waiter in the Ventron Executive Dining Room off Wall Street. Somehow she looked different and acted the same. It took a full day until Alice became the love of my life again, although […]

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April 17, 1981 – Key West – Journal Entry

April 20, 2023 – 7:00 pm

The Bertonis’ rental house in Key West is cool. I have my own bedroom and Guiliana and here daughter cook our meals. Giancarlo, the NYU’s head anesthesiologist, chills at the beach reading and smoking weed we buy off the street. It’s nothing special, but he likes it that way. I devote my early afternoons to […]

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Tom Verlaine July 29, 1978 / Bottom Line

February 6, 2023 – 1:44 pm
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SAY IT LOUD, I’M BAD AND I’M PROUD

January 16, 2023 – 5:56 am

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great orator. His speech I HAVE A DREAM is recognized as a masterpiece of the spoken word. I know parts of it by heart. Another voice for Civil Rights was the legendary James Brown. His songs united blacks and whites, but the Godfather of Soul sang about pride and […]

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