Tag Archives: Marlon Brando

fitness: civilization as health risk

…As in Greece, exercising in public, aside perhaps from genteel games of catch, was for men only. Things may have been different where private facilities were available: a mosaic discovered in a sumptuous Roman villa, for example, pictures handsome young … Continue reading

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heavy wadders

Crap. Rubbish. Shit. A higher truth about our world: all baloney. The underclass image of kitsch rubbish is simply part of the capitalist upper class. An accessory item. An option to be sold short. The ethical cachet of defiant rebelliousness … Continue reading

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pirates of penitence: country on the bounty

Perhaps its all about confused notions of moral superiority. A convenient enough illusion to shackle democracy in Africa or the Middle East that uses Islamic extremism as a wedge. Would democracy imperil the imperial project? In the West’s attack on … Continue reading

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all the news thats fit to stink

As the Rupert Murdoch scandal drags on, we are certainly getting a high calorie intake of phony innocence on the part of the public, and self-righteous drivel and comprehensive deceptions practiced and peddled by the pundit class. Whether News Corp’s … Continue reading

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poet leaks : a hacking of verse

Julian Assange’s recently leaked e-mails to a young lover is a collection of  some awkward attempts at poetic charming. A romantic poet he is not; yet the love letters probably reveal more about him than the headlines do.   Although … Continue reading

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HE COULDN’T MAKE THE HILLS

I can’t make the hills The system is shot I’m living on pills For which I thank G-d I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart I sailed like a swan I sank like … Continue reading

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MASKS OF PESSIMISM: MIRTH,MADNESS & MANLINESS

Clyde boastfully, but shyly introduces them with a disarming smile, accentuating the bond they share with the country folk – while anticipating (almost as an afterthought) the course that they are committed to pursue – bank robbery: This here’s Miss … Continue reading

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DEAD MEN TALKING: IN MOURNING FOR SQUARESVILLE

“June 22 saw the publication of the second installment of Life and Loves Among the Beatniks. Allen Brown quotes freely from Norman Podhoretz and Herbert Gold. He describes the day of a typical beatnik as waking late in the morning … Continue reading

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UNTHINKING WITH THE SUBTERRANEANS: “WE DIG IT ALL”

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in … Continue reading

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