Hi, MLA, I found Paint on my Windows 10, and figured out how to reduce my photo size to put in places on the Internet, so now might folks be apt to follow my profile?: now they can see me, instead of my Gravatar of the Hotel Russell, lovely tho’ it is, photo from London on, guess what? a rainy day. OK, I may not be ready for my close-up for Mr. D…[Read more]

It’s on America’s tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow . . .
Take a look at the law man
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man, wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s on the best selling show
Is there life on Mars? – David Bowie
Wow . . . so that nasty Bob Dylan wins the Pulitzer, and nothing for poor old dead David Bowie.

For those like myself who’ve felt the temerity of fleeing the country after the election, one might take comfort in the words regarding one who remained where she had been slighted, for forge something anew: these from Hawthorne’s marvelous The Scarlet Letter, a novel I can’t say enough about, thus I won’t even try: there is “a feeling so…[Read more]

Friends:    
     Given the US national tragedy that occurred during the witching hour of that godless early morning of the 9th  . . . no, did not just occur . . . but festered through years of a semi-literate, violently jaded, uninformed, and even maleficent electorate – that and Newt Gingrich, I give you some lines from Part III, Chapter…[Read more]