With time on my hands (fingers) I have recently returned to rewriting/reinventing a short story I gave up on more than a decade ago. The base narrative is derived from a real life experience circa 1987. As I construct the tale and revisit the root event source I am struck by how different the world was then without wireless communication technology. There is no way what I experienced then and what I am trying now to recapture in short-form fiction could/would (darn subjunctive) make sense in contemporary CellPhoneWorld. Looking back I see another planet. Not sure effort is worth to pursue...
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Bob moses rip. SHARED BBQ W/HIM ONCE. CORNELL WEST FOLLOWS D. BELL OUT OF HARVARD. SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE.With a weeklong encampment in a house with no electricity or heat I had time to reflect. I have decided to denounce all the idiots that contributed to the industry-wide phase-out of the motorcycle kickstarter. I suspect the same morons to be responsible for stranding me with gas heat and gas appliances that do not operate without hard-wired electric current.
Patriotism is the last refuge....Remember Mara-a-Lago! Next year in Jerusalem maybe in a spider hole with Bibi or Mitch (or both). Hell, let's sell Guantanamo to DT and then keep him there.
So our collective/national political
orientation/navigation is not to be guided by rational debate but rather by private media sponsored dueling infomercials? Vonnegut meets McLuhan. The specter of trump fans the flames of discord and sows seeds of public anger and frustration. evil genius or
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AuthorJon Amsterdam is a Lawyer, Educator, Community Organizer and National Service Innovator who directs Communities Without Borders, a non profit organization he founded in 1996. Archives
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