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dailyplanet
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Birthday
- January 21
- Bio
- Saturated in the aura of the various holding pens which I have inhabited, I meander down the karmic road. My childhood was spent in Detroit and its suburbs. This was in a house with walls held together by words streamed or jolted out of the mouths of my kin: the stories of the Holocaust. Constructed with these uncommon materials, this house I lived in was a mutant structure imitating a home. I flew from this place when I was old enough and strong enough to regain consciousness and nested at the Chelsea Hotel. And what a perch was mine for nine years. My feet danced on the thin, hot wires, nurtured by voltages and voltages of electricity. Here I landed and…no… I wouldn’t fall off. I’d balance and soar away only when the high wire act became bad noir. Then it was oops…up, up and away to San Francisco and through the hole in the wall of my birdhouse and there to stay.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Revolt Against the Revolting
October 19, 2011 10:55PM - Ode to the Odious William
Burroughs
December 19, 2009 01:12PM - History…It’s SO over with
November 21, 2009 02:09PM - Irving Kristol Lost
Scribblings Found
September 19, 2009 06:13PM - ANNA WINTOUR: Wake Up and
Smell the Perfume
September 16, 2009 06:39PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Reagan was a lousy actor
in Hollywood but gave an
academy
award performance on
th…”
February 07, 2011 04:42PM - “Yes, we both know of
what we speak and where we
speak
from...a world like no
othe…”
November 21, 2009 03:35PM - “Uh, "taste" is such a
personal issue, we know this.
What
gives some
peo…”
September 16, 2009 07:04PM - “Your story was the text
of nostalgia for me. I too
grew up in
a suburb of
Detroit…”
July 18, 2009 04:21PM - “I too have shared a
significant moment in my life
with Ms.
Faye Dunaway. In a
lan…”
June 07, 2009 09:51PM
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Ode to the Odious William Burroughs
Reply to poem: “I Dreamed I Met William Burroughs,” by Franz Wright (Pulitzer Prize for poetry, 2004). Published in The New Yorker, December 14, 2009.
History…It’s SO over with
About a month ago I fell down Alice’s rabbit hole. I’m still residing there…a world where nightmare is an understatement. It’s a place I’m still trying to find my way in and out of. The address can’t be determined other than to be described as a locati… Read full post »
Irving Kristol Lost Scribblings Found
Irving Kristol 1920-2009
We must mark the lamentable passing of Irving Kristol, one of the original standard bearers of the neo-conservative movement in America. But amidst the sadness we are heartened… Read full post »
ANNA WINTOUR: Wake Up and Smell the Perfume
To Ms. Wintour;
Any one of us who has a passion for fashion knows that websites have been blazing lately with rumor, innuendo and prognostications on the health of Vogue.
I’m a Vogue subscriber who each month looked forward to finding it in my mailbox. It was my pleasure… Read full post »
This Night Needs No Armor
2 Fiction Torn From the Headlines 2
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Some only want to walk the night streets. The laughing boy face of the ha-ha sun is not for them. They prefer the physiognomy of f… Read full post »
THE WHAT’S IN YOUR WALLET GAME
When your deck of plastic turns into a dead hand…What then?
At the supermarket line it’s not about paper or plastic in the ecological sense. No, the distinction is between the plastic card and paper money. And the ancient billfold for the folding green is now primarily a contai/… Read full post »
Crucify Me With Diamonds - Madonna's Prayer
No God fearing, honest to God Jew/Kabbalist would ever wear the symbol of Christianity so blatantly around her neck as did Madonna at the recent Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute, Model as Muse, extravaganza. This woman has made our heat sizzling, globally warming planet just pliant mush in her s… Read full post »
"THE MAN WHO NEVER TALKED IS NOW THE MAN WHO WON'T SHUT UP"
Look, Ms. Maureen Dowd, you sweet little lick of orange marmalade… the Cheney “indoor voice” is now amplified for outdoor use. Don’t tell me to shut up! No one can make me do anything I don’t want to do. Especially a New York Times columnist composing coy copy from the… Read full post »
I LIKE REALLY EXPENSIVE STUFF-I FEEL SORRY FOR ME
Good for you doc! Mine these assholes for every penny they don’t think they’re worth.
Wealth coaches guide affluent through crisis
Lorinda Toledo, Associated Press
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Psychologist James Gottfurcht specializes in coaching people about their money woes, and as his affl… Read full post »
REAL ESTATE PORNO: IT'S TURNING ME ON
“From the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam”
Before Google Earth, we got this visual of our nation’s geography from Irving Berlin’s songbook, the über patriotic “God Bless America.”
Merci, or should I say, Mercy!
God Bless America &h… Read full post »
EMERALD CITY: SAN FRANCISCO IS THE COLOR OF MONEY
Ahhhhhh...The Emerald City By The Bay
THE NEW YORK TIMES, APR. 22, 2009
Last year, after Michael Perkocha and Tina Stott asked several contractors for bids to remodel a dilapidated bungalow they had just bought for $630,000 in the Glenview district of Oakla… Read full post »
HELLO KITTY HEARTBROKEN: “I STILL LUFF YOU JEFF KOONS”
I doin nothin but cryin. Right now my head hurts aww-full. Dat toddler who I now stay wid is a mean one who jus bites me on my head wid her slobb’ry teeth.
ME - TOP OF MY HEAD TAPED ON
Her name is Cloris an she jus likes to… Read full post »
French Remedy for Economic Grief: Kidnap the Boss
The French are great believers in the personal touch when it comes to human relations. Whether it's love or labor relations the intimate approach is the method of choice for accomplishing the goal.
Last Wednesday in the city of Bellegarde-Sur-Valserine, workers took three British execut… Read full post »
NY Times to World: Citizen Picture Snappers Get to Work
Never Say Never Again?
Show us how Depression II is playing out at a Theatre Near You.
Inquiring minds at the New York Times from their prestigious editorial perches in the bleacher sections high above the maddening crowd have issued a clarion call: … Read full post »
Cheney as Psychic: public service to continue
Offering his familiar trademark smirk, former Vice President Dick Cheney assured the nation that he would reject retirement’s tempting embrace. No how, no way would he curtail his universally recognized intrusion into public affairs. Now thankful for the leisure to pursue… Read full post »
SINGLE MOMS FILE CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST LIBERALS
The buzz circulated smoking hot after what they’d heard on The View last Monday. At first there were murmurs of denial. Then disbelief turned to anger, and then came a ground swell of indignation and victimhood. Ann Coulter had written a book proving their very own c… Read full post »
The Beats Were Dicks
This is not the gentrified New York City of the twenty-first century. Today the apple is a shiny, organic specimen hand picked at Whole Foods. But no…I’m not here…I’m back there in a place and time far, far away.
It’s the Chelsea Hotel and I&rsquo/… Read full post »
Nazis and Apples
The Rosenblat “memoir” has been making a lot of noise in the media for days and days. The real story, of course, is the story of his deception and not the story Mr. Rosenblat had been anticipating to see in print. As the child of Holocaust survivors… Read full post »
Heart of Darkness
HEART OF DARKNESS
Over the years, many have attested that they share the sentiments of that iconic popular song “I Left My Heart in San Francisco;” arguably the most evocative, lyrical tribute ever written to immortalize any city.
As Tony Bennett sings it, “The morning fog… Read full post »
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