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The New Minoan Miniature: The Art of Nyani Martin
A Minoan Bull-Dance, by Nyani Martin (original 3 inches x 2 inches) I’m proud to call Nyani Martin a friend and colleague in the world of Minoan studies. This article introduces you to the...
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Nuff Snuff? Another ‘Minoan Atlantis’ Archaeo-Slopumentary
Who cares how they died? It’s how they lived that matters. A Germany-based production company has just (August 2011) released online streaming of its pseudo-new “Atlantis” documentary, featuring...
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WOOP: We the Workers of the World WALK OUT ON PROFIT
WOOP We the Workers of the World WALK OUT ON PROFIT Sincerely Proposed, If Seemingly Preposterous * ‘The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage.’ Thucydides * The empire...
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RED REMEMBERS: An Oral History of WWII Air Force Heroism
Here, my friends, is an invitation to really get to know what our forefathers went through in one theatre of World War II—namely the young men of the Fifteenth Air Force’s 464th Bomb Group, whose B-24...
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Death, Life & The Door Between: Glimpses Into Life’s Beyond
Spirals inscribed at Newgrange, Ireland, 5000 years old Listen to what “everyday people” say about The Afterlife. (First, of course, that there is one.) You can easily absorb a range of these short...
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Repent, You Sinners! Occupation Is Class Envy!
On Jeff Jacoby’s “A Sinful ‘Occupation’” in The Boston Globe, November 2, 2011 As a former longtime subscriber to The Boston Globe—which ended when it became a self-styled “family newspaper,” and...
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Stronger Speaking: Simple Seasoned Steps
Stronger Speaking: Simple Seasoned Steps to Fundamental Confidence Pure exhilaration—More than a decade of it now as I’ve been teaching effective public and professional speaking to college...
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Eve, Spring, Flowers: Notes on a Murder 32 Years Unsolved
Eve Helene Wilkowitz, 1959-1980 In the spring of 1980 I’d just begun to live as a writer (age 25) in New York City. “Up until that age, I had no development at all,” said Herman Melville: “I date...
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last Vision—A People’s Occupation of Washington DC
Yes indeed—Occupy began to change the national conversation. And now? I wonder where the vast majority of American citizens can, perhaps, agree. It seems unlikely the Pentagon is going to...
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Bungled Diplomacy, Murder, & Healing: A New American Day at Wessagussett
Chief One Bear and ‘English’ representative at Wessagusset ceremonies 2004 On Saturday, April 6th, 2013, the town of Weymouth—only the second permanent English settlement in Massachusetts, and a...
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College Adjunct Professors & Minimum Wage: You Be The Judge
Is your college or university educating students with less-than-minimum-wage Adjunct Professors? Here is a measure by which to judge, as they are now at least 50% of American college faculty. By the...
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He Done It For Duh-mocracy: Tour the G. Dubya Bush Lie-Bury
“Y’all can have yer focus groups!” As we say in Maine, Howdy Y’All! Hope you enjoy your guided tour of the G. Dubya Bush Memorial Lie-Bury. No refunds. The Bush Lie Bury presents a ekkle-lectic...
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Ceremonial Walking: Dikte Cave, Crete
The mountains of Crete and their great caves have drawn every kind of pilgrim since Minoan times. This short film that I hope to post here or link to very soon (shot in May 2012) takes you down into...
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The Doors at Boston Arena, 1970—A Fan Remembers
This hand shook the hand of The Doors’ keyboard-player, Ray Manzarek, as I met and talked with him at a trade-show appearance south of Boston in the mid-1990s. For me, by proxy, it...
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What Martin Luther King, Jr. Might Say to Americans Being Crushed by Profit
Reblogged from jackdempseywriter: For Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday (1/20) of 2014, I'm reposting these excerpts from his last book of essays, The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968---written as he...
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Conference Recovers Long-Lost Works of Peristalsis
One of the less-noticed scholarly conferences this year was at least unusual. For how often does a long-lost major manuscript, particularly that of an idiot, come back to light from the...
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HAPPY THOMAS MORTON DAY!
HAPPY THOMAS MORTON DAY! Well, Matt Damon is busy with leotard-fittings to play Aqua-Man, but someday Boston and New England are going to claim their real-world first heritage with a worthy film about...
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CHRIS PFOUTS REMEMBERED
(“I Knew Right Away He Was Not Ordinary”) These memories of Chris Pfouts—fiction-writer, editor of multiple magazines devoted to the arts of tattooing and motorcycle culture, multi-talented...
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Ancient Minoan Calendar and our Heritage of (yes, relative) Peace
Happy Summer Solstice! Announcing publication of a small (50pp) color-illustrated booklet The Knossos Calendar: Minoan Cycles of the Sun, the Moon, the Soul and Political Power, published in English...
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PROFIT: 3 of 4 People Will Try Something Else
Since August 2011 when I published WOOP: We the Workers of the World Walk Out On Profit, the people who do the world’s work every day (You) have continued to work harder, get poorer and become...
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