Monthly Archives: October 2021

October 13, 1492

October 13, 2021 – 10:31 am

FROM THE DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS SATURDAY OCTOBER 13, 1492 As soon as it dawned, many of these people came to the beach?all young, as I have said, and all of good stature?very handsome people, with their hair not curly but straight and coarse, like horsehair; and all of them very wide in-the forehead and […]

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Chili Chili Bang Bang

October 12, 2021 – 8:00 am

Several years ago the City of London was thrown into a panic by a eye-searing cloud. Police swept the streets for the source of the potential killer only to discover a Thai chef preparing his monthly supply of chilly sauce ‘nam prik pao’. Firefighters in bio-hazard suits removed the?cooking pot despite the protests of the […]

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HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD by Peter Nolan Smith

October 12, 2021 – 6:09 am

Distances around the world have dramatically shrunk with the spread of jet transportation. Columbus’ voyage to the New World lasted almost two months. That trip from the port of Palos in Spain to Plana Cays in the Bahamas would now take about twenty-hours with a train to Madrid, flights to Miami and Nassau followed by […]

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Sell-Out At The NY Times

October 11, 2021 – 6:52 pm

The New York Times was a great newspaper in my youth. Their reporters helped publish the Pentagon Papers for Daniel Ellsburg, Neil Sheehan ripped off the government’s cloak of invisibility over the Viet-Nam Invasion, and I loved their motto ‘All the news that is fit to print.’ Times have changed since the 70s. The Drug […]

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October 10, 1978 – Journal Entry – East Village

October 10, 2021 – 12:47 pm

One NRP member incurred the wrath of the Party by suggesting that we kill the rich. I agreed with Guadalcanal in theory, but everyone else rejected violence. “If we use violence, we will be just like them,” Anthony Scibelli said parroting the old movie line foisted on the film’s audience to prevent the poor from […]

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