Jon Rumble was not the only member of our graduating class to be killed in Vietnam. Jon was better known because of his activities with the Drama Club. Mike Sullivan only went half days in 12th grade, working in the afternoons. But he had friends too, and he had a reputation as a very nice …
ANOTHER WOODSON GRAD WHOSE LIFE ENDED IN VIETNAM Read More »
This won’t be a long piece. I have been thinking about it all day and I’ll just make my point and file it. I think Fathers Day is an incorrect name for an important holiday. It doesn’t take much to be a father — just a shot of sperm that finds an egg. In fact, …
I have mentioned before that after my 40th high school reunion in 2007, I started a project looking at the Class of 1967 approaching old age. I actually wrote a dozen or so chapters, but then I hit a point in my life where there was great turmoil, both career-wise and health-wise. The book never …
I was listening to an interview with a few Trumpanzees outside the Miami courthouse the other day, and I swear I didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. Either we are growing a crop of the most gullible people ever to live … or these people are just nuts. One of them was babbling …
When I wrote about Woodstock the other day, about how I wished I had gone, a friend of mine commented that he had been there. I reminded him that I knew that. About 15 years ago, I was working on a project that never quite came to fruition, and I was writing individual chapters about …
TONY FROM WOODSON TO WOODSTOCK TO MARSHALL TO SOFIA Read More »
Love your neighbor. Unless he’s one of those gay homos. Feed the hungry. Only if they work for it. Heal the sick. As long as they have insurance. Clothe the poor. Make them pay for it. Do unto others. Before they do unto you. Give up your wealth. Hey, I worked for this. Judge not …
WOULD JESUS HIMSELF RECOGNIZE RIGHT-WING CHRISTIANS? Read More »
“This used to be a hell of a good country.”— Jack Nicholson in “Easy Rider,” 1969 I was reading an article a few years back about restaurant chains that are in danger of going out of business, and one of the ones they mentioned was Krispy Kreme. The southern donut chain expanded too far and …
As a writer, there’s one cliche that I never particularly liked. A picture is worth a thousand words. I’m not sure that’s true, but there are certainly photographs that once seen can never be forgotten. I will never forget several from Vietnam, the Viet Cong being shot in the head and the naked girl running …
I spent a good part of the day recently watching an extremely sad movie. It wasn’t intended that way when it was first released 53 years ago, but the four-hour director’s cut of “Woodstock” almost made me feel like crying. Not just for a time gone by, not just for the fact that so many …
What’s the worst four-letter word in the English language? I’ll give you a clue. It starts with the letter F. No, not that one. The word I mean, the word that truly brings out the worst in us, is fear. Not all fear is bad. Going all the way back to primitive man, one type …
