Tag: history
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For What It’s Worth – The Hut Lounge
Here’s an older one that sums up parts of my misguided youth… My memoir covers this portion of my life in more detail…; -) For What It’s Worth – The Hut Lounge ‘Something’s happening here…’ Buffalo Springfield on the jukeboxLinda Lane slayed us with herintricate guitar work andsensuous vocals ‘What it is ain’t exactly clear…’…
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That Depends…
Are you a good judge of character? In my youth and young adulthood? Definitely not; two failed marriages, religious cult associations, and near lifestyle induced death would seem to indicate. In my current phase of life, I’ve been much better at it, as my nearly 30-year relationship with my current partner and my small but…
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Another Memoir Memory
Another Memoir Memory Back in Oberlin (well, Russia Township, just outside of Oberlin), after my first wife left, taking our two children with her, I bought a 350 Honda motorcycle from a friend at work (US Steel at the time), who had been an apprentice machinist with me. He had extended the front fork and…
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Who, Indeed?
Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met? I once met Jimi Hendrix, so I’m told. I related the tale in my memoir section on the ‘New York Commune’: https://cynop.xyz/2023/07/19/the-new-york-commune-memoir-continued/ I did, however, meet Buckminster Fuller of geodesic dome fame at Publix bood store, at Playhouse Square, Cleveland, for a lecture…
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Dia De Los Muertos
Dia De Los Muertos today and tomorrowhonor our departed onesshare a meal aswe all once did –LE – 11/1/25 PS: November 1 and 2, ‘Day of the Dead’ originated from the indigenous peoples of Mexico, particularly the Aztecs, who held ancient rituals to honor the dead and was later combined with Catholicism after Spanish…
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Arabica
Arabica This faded old mansion, trying to recapture its bygone glory by housing this want-to-be cool, trendy, campus coffee house, has the atmosphere of some ancient, feral, watering hole, hunting ground. You can feel the eyes and hot breath of its denizens, circling, watching, ready to pounce. Prey and predator are easily distinguishable. Prey, no…
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Looking Out From The Deck
Looking Out From The Deck bright tassel-like bloomsdangle among the green leavesthe Golden Chain Tree red Split Leaf Mapleoverflows its red glazed potfountain-grass backdrop bark like paper sheetspeeled under wind-tossed branchesserene River Birch –LE – 10/29/25 PS: A memory of looking out at my back yard from the deck on the back of our ‘old…
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A Repost of Anticipation VS Completion
In light of some of my recent posts, I thought it relevant to repost this one. I did post it last year, but it’s an older consideration from 8 or 9 years ago…; -) Anticipation and Achievement Let’s be honest. The highs of anticipation and expectation are the best anyone will get out of life,…
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I Had A Friend
I Had A Friend in our journey from birth to deathwe cross paths with multitudessome walk with us for a waysthen leave for different by-ways sometimes our paths cross againbut the rivers we treadand the persons we becamekeep changing, not the same even deep emotional connectionsdiverge, thinning to nothing orsplitting by social pressuresconditioning and misunderstanding…
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Soundtracks Of My Life
Soundtracks Of My Life the earliest I can rememberEverly brothers dream, dream, dreamoff and on even through high school : https://youtu.be/tbU3zdAgiX8?si=7TpLPosTQu2HwdAC 1967 enthralled by Clapton and Cream’sBorn Under A Bad Sign till the ‘80sif it wasn’t for bad luck, there’d be no luck at all : https://youtu.be/f1pzXJuvdAY?si=vPfaLpupxBE1jfNC then, in the ‘90s, Jonny Lang’sWander This World…
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