from my Substack archives: Cindy Phillips, 2 July 2025 Hyannis Port, Mass., July 2 (UPI) – President Kennedy mourned tonight the death of Ernest Hemingway, whom he called one of America’s greatest authors and “one of the great citizens of…
from my Substack archives: 1 July 2025 It’s a nice day for music birthdays. There’s Jeff Wayne, turning 82 today, the guy who gave us the prophetic Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, or Fred Schneider,…
My birthday calendar says we’ve got Orwell and Carly Simon on the same day? That’s literary-political sass and 70s self-aware sparkle rolled into one. Delicious! “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” That’s probably the…
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.” Ambrose Bierce I told Aggie I almost named him Ambrose, so many years ago, when I thought he was only going to be a fourteen-day foster. Ambrose Bierce was…
“There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her mate and she was talkin’ loudly goin’ on about “oh the baby’s lovely.” They said…
