The Taboo Stuff

Start with this (thought). For a play/story? Not sure. German American Bund. GAB. Before WW2 the GAB organized large gatherings in US promoting Nazism. They even had a gathering at Madison Square Garden (I think). Who were the speakers? McCarthyism was childs play compared to the roundup of German, Italian adn japanese people. Fritz Kuhn … Continue reading The Taboo Stuff

A Night Out

What matters is the big picture. That's why so many things look best when viewed from afar. Paintings, for example. Or large orchestrated gatherings such as those from the Soviet Union, China, North Korea. What I hate about women (hate being the wrong word), especially girls. Wait. Just because you read-up on the meaning of … Continue reading A Night Out

Chinaski

Amazed at the view. Chinaski haunting me. Running from Chinaski. Wish I couldn't run (from the) drunken-ness. It would seem (like) a great way to rid myself of this pain. Ain't that what alcohol is for? The numbing. Been numb for too long. But the pain is caused by the drunken-ness. Not of body or … Continue reading Chinaski

Uncollapse

Speaking mind from some side street off of Geary Street, SF. Breakfast at Lou's Diner. Drive-in made to look like it was out of a movie. Movie no one ever saw. But it has all the makings like the rest of US. To be more than it is. Ordered a big breakfast to cur4b the … Continue reading Uncollapse

That Name

Once again you will not find a place so perfectly dominated and run by idiots. You only have to view or analyze the entry points. The patient begins with a roaming cellphone call from Stone's sister. (There's that name again.) Here the family chaos begins and at the same time the adventure-chaos making his way … Continue reading That Name

Clouding

Life needs to be shades (of?) and colors. Money should be black and white. The complexity of finance and capital management is clouding (the) human vision, mind, soul... Etc. -t

Sartre's Speech

Find Sartre's (in)famous speech where he says the French were most free when they were under occupation. A man who is able to love a woman and yet never cry for one is a great man. So many great things said. What is their context? -t

Artist?

"Salzfässen." The point under neck and above collar bone. The most magical part of the female (from the planet...) The success of an artist depends on his ability to self-endulge. No, that's totally wrong. His/Her success depends clearly on an ability to NOT self indulge. Scratch that. You're not an artist. Move on. -t

Victim

Victimisation. Who has it? Where does it come from? A pillar of society it is not, yet we weave like small children at play through various forms of it/them, not knowing or even questioning their history. And for what? When all is guided by the emotions that come from it then it is no wonder … Continue reading Victim

Only Had The Courage

Is the simplest explanation always the best? ...they've been told that god is mysterious, unfathomable, so to then incoherence is the closest thing to god." -Umberto Eco Don't particularly mind the turn the world has taken recently to fundamentalism. There's nothing wrong with that type of control as it obviously serves a purpose. The problem … Continue reading Only Had The Courage

Paralysed

The days pass my sweet and I forget no such forgetful sense to scrape my pencil across your breast. The inside of a man is made of the heart. The inside of a woman is only her... Therefore the heart, good or bad, guides men but the ... is independent of everything except the essence … Continue reading Paralysed

Meek Defined

The first thing you smell is the kool-aid. That erroneous product of American ingenuity plastered like bad graffitti on the walls of our prophet (or psyche). So much so that the smell didn't even come from the mix in water but the skin of a beautiful woman--from behind her left earlobe, from real flesh. Only … Continue reading Meek Defined

Unsoiled Ground

Begin this... Last (or lost) in home around subtle thunder with no storm. There is little to be said in these silly days where one war is being questioned and another baptized with a hope of finding POWs. The controversy and duality is enorm, like a gap in the knitting of a large quilt. But … Continue reading Unsoiled Ground

Give Up

I linger, yearn, lust to be the greatest failed playwright ever. When the people ask how I can be so ignorant and arrogant making such a claim I will respond: because even now in the depth of my failure, unlike you'all, I have something to believe in that is real and worthwhile. And even though … Continue reading Give Up

What You Know

May you'all develop a talent for living happily ever after. Maybe not is more important. Meredith, James - first to cross race line in Mississippi. Met Henry Gallagher who knew James Meredith. The bartender at Timberlake "Babak" is the nephew of the Persian doctor from D'dorf who fixed LB's elbow. Greatness is not in what … Continue reading What You Know

Horatio Or Frank

What is the opposite of happiness? Of suffering? When I think of JC I wonder of his choices. Of course they were choices of ideology but perhaps they were choices of or between happiness and suffering. (The two things humans inherently now, like instinct.) The choice, for example, to go into the desert for 40 days, … Continue reading Horatio Or Frank

Culture

Three Strikes. Three scenes or could be more scenes. Family depicted in three basic configurations which conveys the contemporary ideal of family life in USA. But this ideal is very inconsistent and diverse. What is clear i portraying the family is very confusing yet none of them are really happy. The same characters in three different scenes … Continue reading Culture

Thirty Cents

Why don't they all just kill (me or) themselves? It's the most I wish to witness. Yet I must deal with my decision to return (the old country). Sink or swim is the motto. All of those thoughts of sinking. The rifle barrel pressed to the back of my throat and I worry if I … Continue reading Thirty Cents