Dear Friend and Reader: If ever there was a week during the past nine years and 11 months to wonder what is happening in the United States charts, this would be the week. The debt ceiling hostage game that ended less than two weeks ago led to a reduction of the U.S. credit rating, which … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Sunday night I was out in New Paltz, our little San Francisco here in Ulster County, interviewing a couple who wants to model for my photo studio. It was a beautiful, warm summer evening. We were outside Mexicali Blue, a gourmet taco place not to miss if you’re ever in town. Our … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Back during the Cheney-Bush administration, I used to have this notion that there was an astrologer working in the White House who was taking it upon himself to sabotage everything they tried to do. For example, they invaded Iraq with the Sun in the last degree of Pisces, when they could … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: When the Space Shuttle Atlantis glided majestically through the early morning darkness and touched down at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, July 21, it landed on a different planet from the one Columbia first took off from in April 1981. Atlantis landed on a hotter, more crowded planet, one engulfed in economic, environmental and ideological … Read more
So leave me now the Moon is up But remember all the tales I tell The memories that you have dredged up Are on letters forwarded from hell — Joe Strummer / “Something About England“ Dear Friend and Reader: Every now and then, a significant global event affirms the theme of one of the recently … Read more