Each of us must have a quiet place, a safe and solemn refuge. A go-to spot where we can chill. Always, but especially in this summer of our discontent.
It should be handy, a room at home away from family tumult, or a sanctuary of sorts but a short stroll away, a getaway for decompression and […]
The refrigerator repair guy, the guy from an appliance service outfit without a local address or phone number that I was forced to use for warranty work because the owner of the store where I bought the icebox called me “full of crap” when I had the audacity to ask for a replacement washer when […]
Read the entire articleIn order to move beyond this vexation, I must vent about yet another significant moment in what is euphemistically referred to among my immediate peers as the anschluss of maturation. If for therapeutic purposes only, you understand.
Attempting to move beyond deceptive nomenclature, what we’re talking about here is . . . well . . . […]
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is still being assessed. Not the least of which devastation is the extent to which the vibrant music scene of New Orleans has been battered, how the players have scattered hither and yon. There are still too many of the Crescent City’s stalwarts exiled in the Diaspora.
Among the more notable […]
It is prime time for television, half past 9:00 o’clock p.m., just a few hours after the president of the United States has commuted the sentence of a vice presidential aide convicted of a felony against the country.
Not one of the three major cable news networks is discussing the issue. MSNBC and Fox are talking […]
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