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My Man Dan From Detroit Country Day School
WHEN DAN HOLLOWAY dropped dead of a heart attack on Xmas Eve at just 60 years of age, the first from my high school graduating class to die — Doctor Daniel Keith Holloway — it just started a whole thing unravelling for me. I hesitate to call it THE WEB OF MY LIFE, because that sounds like […]
Nostalgic for Conversation
Last week I found myself in a long discussion with four writers about of all things, nostalgia. I enjoy quoting a view (ala Nietzche I think) that sees nostalgia as, “looking backwards with bullshit in both eyes.” But there I was on a panel sponsored by the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC) held at […]
BLACK LAUGHS MATTTER
“If you had a choice of colors, Which one would you choose my brothers. If there was no day or night, Which would you prefer to be right?” Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, “Choice of Colors” 1969 This summer I read how a woman, Rachel Dolezal, head of the NAACP in Spokane Washington, was forced […]
Hanging with Tom Hayden and The Nation
What a high: I just dropped Tom Hayden off at his place in Sullivan Canyon, way up above Sunset Boulevard out towards the Pacific. Tom Hayden, wow. Don’t know him? Go to https://tomhayden.com/biography/ before reading this… He needed a ride home after seeing the premiere of, “HOT TYPE: 150 YEARS OF THE NATION,” Barbara Kopple’s documentary […]
Deli Man the documentary
Someone gives a shout out as the lights come up at the Laemmle’s on Santa Monica Boulevard after the movie, “Deli Man.” “So where we gonna eat?!” Okay, that was me. Such a delicious picture makes me hungry, natch. Izzy’s in Santa Monica is the closest delicatessen to Laemmle’s, but the manager at the […]
