I’m needing to cut loose, to borrow a telecaster, plug it in, turn it up and thump out a kicking cover of Lorraine. “She got straight, she understand, aw she wanna die, but now she got plans, she wanna live, she wanna start her band…Go Lorraine!” Jim wrote the ultimate speedball song, she took that […]
MoreI love Social Distortion. I have a neverending urge to play Down Here With The Rest Of Us through neatly manicured state and national campgrounds that pander to the quarter of a million dollar motor homes, while not making any space for those of us who can only afford the rent on a campsite and […]
MoreOh baby, I’m sick of you! Lou’s boogie woogie roars out of the speakers, as he peddles sarcasm and laconic coolness, Baby, bye bye! It would have struck me as amusing if I could have found the strength or interest, instead I lifted my eyes off the floor and tried to fix my jittering eyeballs […]
MoreLast time I was in NYC I was younger. I was not a mother, I was not who I am now. My New York was CBGB’s and Battery Park scores. Jazz clubs and Greenwich Village bars. My New York had my one and only Jewish boyfriend – as much of a freak as me, and […]
MoreIt is strange when asked “did you write about the actual escape?” I haven’t, not in one chunk. It is scattered throughout posts like a jigsaw puzzle, with pieces missing. This is by design, because, quite simply, talking about escaping makes me feel unsafe. I didn’t run once. I kept getting bounced back by the […]
MoreYour passport and ID are both a boon and a bust. Keep them close in case you need to get on a plane, keep them hidden in case you need to hide your identity. It might be safer at certain points to ditch them entirely. Your status as illegal as your feet stand on the […]
MoreI occasionally pull out Kerouac’s On the Road and open it up randomly, much as I have seen people do with the Bible. What does Jack have to say today, I wonder to myself. “I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived […]
MoreI had no idea that different areas of the USA had different flavors to the extent they do. Even within a state there is such variation in geographical identity as to render these sub communities almost different countries. Driving up the 101 towards Aberdeen, Washington, there are many little coastal communities. The sky is greyer, […]
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