Category: Commentary
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The New York Commune – Memoir Continued
I’ve posted most of this adventure previously, but this is where it belongs in the narrative. The New York Commune During the mid-to-late ’60s, I read a string of Hermann Hesse novels. There was Journey to the East, Siddhartha, Damien, The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, and Narcissus and Goldman. They struck sympathetic notes in me…
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The Threepenny Opera – Memoir Continued
The Threepenny Opera (a band name that I used off and on for several years) Guy and I started singing folk music together. I also had met a young woman at the Hut, a bar in the front part of the Lorain Roller Rink on Route 6 out near Beaver Park. Her name was Jane…
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Hot Town, Summer on the Bikepath
This is the result of my 6 AM ride last Friday morning. The high for the last 10 days or so has been consistently around 110F and 82 for a low at night. Hot Town, Summer on the Bikepath cicadas singing their hearts outdeep in the foliage of eucalyptusmesquite and palo verde withambient backup of…
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Sommerset by Leo
Leo was an Indie Rock Band from the early 2000s. My oldest son, Ian, was their front man, lyricist, and lead guitarist. This selection is from their album, Nightmares. Sommerset by LeoLyrics by Ian Eddy Staring down the roadI wonder where it’s gonna end this timeAnother episodeIt’s just a sequel to the one I left…
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Jeff D. and The Rights of Spring – Memoir Continued
I am going to be jumping around a bit in the timeline here to make the story a little more coherent. I’ll get back to the Community College part of the story shorty, or at least the highlights. Jeff D. and the Rights of Spring I worked part of the summer of ‘68 for a…
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IDPI – Memoir Continued
IDPI – International Data Processing Institute After graduation, I applied to and was accepted to IDPI on Cleveland’s near east side downtown. I drove there at first in the ‘61 Dodge Dad had gifted me for graduating high school. It was clean, had no rust, and ran well. Had a 3 speed shifter on the…
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Post High School Graduation – Memoir Continued
Post High School Graduation Much of the following was happening simultaneously or in close proximity, even though I’ve separated them as best I can remember of the sequence of events to make them a little easier to write about. Working With Dad I quit Sandy’s shortly after graduation. I didn’t like the politics of the…
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Archery
Back in late 1969 through 1971, I played with archery for a while at LCCC, the jr college I was attending. Hadn’t thought about it until recently, when my partner’s son, who lives next door to us, constructed an archery range in our mutual backyard. So, I purchased a 40lb, recurve bow, 12 arrows, armguard,…
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Nathan La Franeer by Joni Mitchell
Nathan La Franeer by Joni Mitchell I hired a coach to take mefrom confusion to the planeAnd though we shared a common spaceI know I’ll never meet againThe driver with his eyebrows furrowed in the rear-view mirrorI read his name and it was plainly written Nathan La FraneerI asked him would he hurryBut we crawled…
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Senior Year – Part 3 – The Senior Choir Operetta – Memoir Continued
Senior Year – Part 3 – The Senior Choir Operetta, Spring 1966 The Unsinkable Molly Brown was the choice of our choir director and the English department’s drama coach. In previous years, I had played in the ensemble put together to be the pit-orchestra for our musicals. But this year, Guy and I both tried…
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