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Calvert Vaux Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Calvert Vaux Park
Brooklyn, New York
I like to do a Favorites of the Year post on our blog’s birthday, so here are some of the interviews or written pieces which we enjoyed most over the past year that you may have missed, or may like to view again:
It’s The Thought That Counts: Simon Aronson, An Appreciation
“I Would Want To Drink Their Blood”: Welcome To Hell World, Luke O’Neil
Holiday Greetings, Magic Friends 2019
“How I Became A Socialist”: Jack London
“I Am Spartacus”: Kirk Douglas
Shakespeare In A Divided America
The Deep End: Radical Writers of The 30s
Nora Brown, Old-time Banjo: “You Need To Connect”
“I Owe So Much To Those I Don’t Love”: Wisława Szymborska
“Being Adventurous Means Going To Places You Don’t Know Exist! “
I was happy to voice these poems of poet Connie Norgren on the Arts Express program. Click on the triangle to hear the poems as broadcast today on WBAI NY and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
Monday morning, while waiting for our Insect Overlords to choose our leaders, the rest of us chumps remain in a state of High Anxiety.
Kudos to Mr. Brooks for the perfect Sinatra phrasing and Nelson Riddle-like arrangement.
Thanks to Youtuber OST&Covers&so and Jeffrey St. Clair at Counterpunch for reminding me about this song.
From The Scarecrow, made in 1920, it’s Buster Keaton who lives in a house “where all the rooms are in one room.” Keaton multi-tasks and makes multi-use of every square inch of space. New York City apartment dwellers, take note.
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Thanks to YouTuber iconauta