War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Even now after nearly half-a-century, one Vietnam vet still works to get a grip: Wright died in 1968 when he stepped on a land mine, Atwood said, and Wright’s mother always blamed him for her son’s death. He’s never been able to bring himself to visit his friend’s grave, he said. On Saturday he found…
(Illustration found here). Writing, and actually, well beyond re-writing: In a letter to Ezra Pound, in January 1923, Hemingway wrote: “I suppose you heard about the loss of my Juvenalia? I went up to Paris last week to see what was left and found that Hadley had made the job complete by including all carbons,…
UPDATE BELOW In a crunch of massive news events the last couple of weeks — Hurricane Sandy, President Obama’s re-election, a most-delightful Karl Rove meltdown, etc. — another chunk of headline material rolled out of DC. Puffed-daddy warlord extraordinaire, Gen. David Petraeus, resigned his position as director of the CIA on Friday, stating he’d f*cked-up…
Cold and rainy this early Friday morning up here along California’s northern coast — the first taste of winter a-coming, though, due to an elusive El Nino, the the NOAA has reported our region could be about 40 percent drier for the next three months. Weather, however, lives by natural rules, not slides and charts…
(Illustration found here). One must not ever forget that white of all the colors of mankind has down through history been the most nefarious, throat-slashing assholes ever, just look at the US — white men came to these shores and then moved west, killing every living non-white thing that didn’t already roll over and play…
All over now but the screaming. The big, wonderful news last night: Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren. (And as a side issue by the way, President Obama is still president — albeit “razor tight“). And with hope, Mitt Romney disappears forever trying to find his car elevators. Nearly anti-climatic this election, though, you’d never have thunk that…
Clear as a bell this election-day morning here along California’s northern coast with a half moon hung high in the heavens — the sound of the Pacific rolls easily to the ears. Not so across the US as polling stations open and Americans ready themselves to press the lever, bringing to an end a long,…
A must-see for the continuing horror facing people in the wake of Hurricane Sandy — sixty BuzzFeed pix displaying why they need great help. And speaking of help: Thousands and thousands of pounds of clothes were being sorted, labeled, and distributed, and valuable supplies like heaters and generators were being loaded up in cars to…
Messing with time is crazy — only makes any life-sequence all the more elusive. Forgot about the Daylight Saving switch-a-roo last night, got up an hour earlier and although I’d slept all I could, the very fact it was way-too soon, but still late, created a glitch in the matrix. Joe Biden timed it right yesterday:…
(Illustration found here). Even as a tiny, little shit — vs an old shit now — I’ve always been a full-blown movie nut. In countless darkened theaters as flickering images played across gigantic screens, these episodes in fantasy seemed to remove me from a world I couldn’t understand, or maybe didn’t want to, and created…