Tag Archives: Josef Koudelka

Over the fiscal cliff and into the abyss

it seems like a mocking story in a way; the insecurity of the public sector when they have to get out from under their mother’s skirt and make their way in the real world all by their lonesome, and in … Continue reading

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full court press

Heading disaster off at the pass? Short term election fix, that effectively, with regard to the structural issues of technological deflation and unemployment, “kicks the can,” or rather the electoral not a pot to piss in, “down the road,” a … Continue reading

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ROMA CHRISTMAS CARAVAN: A Nomadic Santa

A Gypsy Christmas Carol from 1893 in England: King Pharim sat a-musing, A musing all alone; There came a blessed Saviour, And all to him unknown. Say, where did you come from, good man, Oh, where did you then pass? … Continue reading

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ROCK THEIR GYPSY SOUL

Wordsworth called the Gypsies “wild outcasts of society.” In the folklore of he nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they appear mainly in the guise of dark-haired, mysterious fortunetellers and colorfully dressed violinists, ready to break into song at the drop of … Continue reading

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