Merle Haggard
I just heard on the radio that he died at the old age of 75. I kind of surprised myself by feeling a strong emotion of sadness when I heard. When I was twenty I foolishly possessed an eighth of a gram...
View ArticlePrince- a couple of observations
If you look at the labels on old 78 band records, you’ll see "arranged by...”. Arrangers used to travel with big bands and they were a big part of road and studio musicianship.Prince had the ability to...
View ArticleThose triple parentheses- can I use them?
My late maternal great-grandmother, back in the old country, represented the only part of our family who was Jewish. No one alive now can tell me much about her. Her family came from the big port city...
View ArticleA school shooting in our little community...
We had a shooting at a school here this morning. I say “we” because, while it occurred at the county seat thirty miles away, it affects everyone in this vast isolated desert.It happened at Alpine, a 14...
View ArticleCall from St Louis just now.
I just got a call from my partner in StL- “Streets in U City are full of people” “concrete barriers all around Wash U, you have to show ID to prove you live there, to get in”. “They have these- ‘free...
View ArticleTexas, Johnson, Stein in my county.
Just a short note on the disaster here in America- HRC lost my heavily Hispanic and formerly Democratic home, Brewster County, Texas, by 5.0%.The Johnson and Stein vote total was 6.7%.The combination...
View ArticleMy white skin as camo.
I live in a state that voted for trump, and in a remote desert where his ideas are very popular. My little town is about half Hispanic and half Anglo. Things have changed here. It was formerly a cow-...
View ArticleUS Marines day is December 10th
My partner and I were going through a box of her family photos. She held up a cloth uniform patch. “This was his outfit in the Marines, we should look it up”.“What’d he do in the war?”“He was something...
View ArticleMackie Messer at the inauguration?
Trump has Mack the Knife as the opener tonight? It takes gross insensitivity and colossally poor “song vetting” to do that.Doesn’t he know about the origins of the song? About Kurt Weil and Berthold...
View ArticleThe Forward on Jared Kushner
Today in The Forward there is a thoughtful and introspective article on Jared Kushner. Peter Beinart wrote it. It’s entitled “How could modern Orthodox Judaism produce Jared Kushner?”It describes the...
View ArticleRep. Steve King called to the HR office...
In the machine shop:“Well, you know that guy King?, I’m a little worried about him.”“What’s up? He’s been here a long time.”“I know, but now he’s passing out this book, it has all kinds of porn in it,...
View ArticleWhite appropriation of Black images, and art and Emmet Till
I pay attention to the art world, and now there is a controversy occuring at the Whitney Biennial. A white artist, Dana Schultz, has shown an abstract painting referencing the murder of Emmet Till.The...
View ArticleThe Women's Convention- Detroit 27-9 Oct!
I am very pleased to have read that a national Women’s Convention is to be held in Detroit, 27-9 Oct, this fall.Many times here on KOS I’ve said, “We need an new Seneca falls Conference and a New...
View ArticleI want to see the blood map
Many people think “it happened in Vegas”. I am not good with graphics programs, but I would like to see a US map with a red dot to represent the home of each person murdered by the gun man in Las...
View ArticleWalpurgisnacht
My late mother, when she got old, liked to travel to the old country (Germany), to look around, pester our relatives, and do research on our family’s history. One day she was looking through tour books...
View ArticleSt Louis area protest on Saturday June 30th
People are meeting at:Lincoln County Sheriff's Office65 Business Park DriveTroy MissouriDate: Saturday June 30 10:30AMGroups: ACLU People Power, Expect Us, Latinos en Axion, ProgressWomen,...
View ArticleChained up and left to drown
This fell off the page in just a couple hours, but those two women are still dead and nothing I have read makes me think that anyone will be held to account. It’s hard to read some things, and hard to...
View ArticleDrowned in a prison van, by deputies
Last year two women, being transported by Horry County S. C. sheriff’s deputies, drowned when their van was caught in flood waters. Well… actually they drowned when the deputies driving abandoned the...
View ArticleMy white skin as camo.
I live in a state that voted for trump, and in a remote desert where his ideas are very popular. My little town is about half Hispanic and half Anglo. Things have changed here. It was formerly a cow-...
View ArticleUS Marines day is December 10th
My partner and I were going through a box of her family photos. She held up a cloth uniform patch. “This was his outfit in the Marines, we should look it up”.“What’d he do in the war?”“He was something...
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