I love films about the DDR, aka East Germany. This is probably generational. I’m a boomer and was used to cold war. But also it reflects my politics. I am anti-capitalist and accordingly have a natural curiosity about and empathy for anti-capitalist regimes, as awful as they may have been.<\/p>\n
There are of course good Americans, even white ones. But they seem increasingly outnumbered by bad ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The need to write is already enough of an aggravation without having to worry about getting published. Besides, I’m retired and the internet “lets me” give it away.<\/p>\n Jingles and Quips. Old Spice. See the USA in your Chevrolet\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Forgone confusion<\/p>\n Typical bad behaviour of territorial primates.<\/p>\n From a feline perspective humans are strange. They actually go to a bathroom when they go to the bathroom, rather than to a box.<\/p>\n The Groves of Academe, the novel.<\/p>\n Many African-Americans suffer from the same blind (or deaf) prescriptive monolingualism as white Americans, even if they speak AAVE (aka Ebonics) and are thus bi-dialectal.<\/p>\n Articles Archives – Foreign Crime Drama<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Poetry 093546<\/p>\n Open the gates of poetry<\/p>\n My conversion<\/p>\n Vietnam is the Asian country which most affected my life because of the American war. But I also feel the ancestral call from Japan, China and Korea.<\/p>\n Im a rhymester, a lover of ditties and jingles and the like. But I’m also loyal to my concretists phase, including an affection for found poems, prose poems, any use of language which calls attention to how strange it is.<\/p>\n ^^^^^^<\/p>\n Everything could\u00a0<\/span>be II = imho the best indigenous identifying poet<\/p>\n A whole passel of folks with values antithetical to my own have a lot of power..\u00a0 <\/span>What to do about this ?<\/p>\n Hedonism is a philosophy for the old. Youth itself is pure pleasure. The young don’t need to reflect on it.<\/p>\n Not yet Altzy, Parky or demented Make the Universal Yiddish Library a Reality<\/a><\/p>\n Down in Houston<\/a><\/p>\n Zydeco<\/a><\/p>\n Houston Bound<\/a><\/p>\n
\nstructured\u00a0<\/span>differently. But it ain’t!<\/p>\n
\njust plain old senile<\/p>\n