Monthly Archives: January 2021

How Far From Now

January 10, 2021 – 10:52 pm

On November 8, 2016 I was sitting at the bar at the Barnacle in Marblehead. The TV was showing the election results. The initial reports looked good for Hillary Clinton, however CNN swiftly charted the collapse of democracy as old Democratic stronghold in the Midwest fell into Trump’s electoral count. By dawn victory was declared […]

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The Chiang Mai Guesthouse

January 7, 2021 – 12:20 pm

The odds of surviving a head-on collision with a pick-truck while driving a motorcycle are not in favor of the motorcyclists, but I was lucky enough to walk away from such an accident in the North of the Thailand back in 1990. I was unscathed. My left wrist was warped like the neck of a […]

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Singapore the City of No

January 7, 2021 – 9:49 am

My great grand-aunt, Bert, circumnavigated the globe in the 1870s, when she was 12 years-old. Her father was the captain of sailing ship. I first met her in 1958. She was almost 100. Her house in Falmouth, Massachusetts was decorated with the curios of several continents; scrimshaw whale teeth, Zulu war shields, and ornate opium […]

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Hiding Behind Fats

January 3, 2021 – 8:28 pm

Back in 1982 I worked the door at the Bains-Douches in Paris. The owner suggested hiring new blood for security. My first choice was Big Jacques. Jacques Negrit was a tall, handsome and good-natured twenty year-old from the projects of the peripherique. His gang was called Les Bufalos. I liked Jacques and didn’t trust the […]

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Journal Entry – January 1, 1978

January 1, 2021 – 2:44 pm

Death to 1977 Onto a year of 78 RPM. It’s snowing and I’m watching the Broncos beat the Raiders. 20-17. Last night at 27th Street was weird. I hit on Alta. We made up and dry-humped in a dark corner. She begged off fucking. I accepted her no, got drunk, puked outside, and sobered up […]

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