The Electric Company might have ruined our lives...
This little clip from The Electric Company makes me wonder if some of us never had a chance. I mean take a look at the message and remember – the target audience was 7 – 12 year olds:
Kids, it’s cool to read when you’re on the street smoking cigarettes and living without boundaries and feeling each other up and acting loose which should come easy to you but if it doesn’t for some reason and you…
Robots in Disguise רובוטים בתחפושת: Holocaust Memoir #5
I SHALL LIVE, SURVIVING AGAINST ALL ODDS by Henry Orenstein
I learned more about WWII as it played out in the European Theater from this book than I did in school but that’s mostly because in school I was smoking a boatload of weed. We used to get 7 joints for $5 back then or “buck-a-joint” which the black dudes would say as they passed you in the common. “buck-a-joint buck-a-joint”.
Even if…
I’ve been good at things in my life but I have never been great. Not ever.
There are people who have said “Fatova is great writer” or “Fatova is a great singer” but have you read my books or heard my records? No one will ever know me who doesn’t know me. You know? Andrzej pushed me to publish because he thought I was a great writer and Kritina agreed and found a publisher who thought I was a…
Finally… Jane Austen can suck it. 19th Century prostitution in England. If you were not rich you didn’t have much of a choice. It was a lowdown era for poor women. They were the whores of the dark spaces in the world.
Now, a man of means may come to know his prostitute and like her for more than her, mm, “attributes”. He may find her charming and intellectually stimulating. He may even fall…